Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 3 ‘It’s in the Trees! It’s Coming!’ Night of the Demon and the Decline and Fall of the British Empire

Chapter 4 Mutants and Monsters

Chapter 5 ‘Don’t Dare See It Alone!’ The Fifties Hammer Invasion

Chapter 6 Genre, Special Effects and Authorship in the Critical Reception of Science Fiction Film and Television during the 1950s

Chapter 7 Hammer’s Dracula

Chapter 8 Fast Cars and Bullet Bras: The Image of the Female Juvenile Delinquent in 1950s America

Chapter 9 ‘A Search for the Father-Image’: Masculine Anxiety in Robert Bloch’s 1950s Fiction

Chapter 10 ‘Reading her Difficult Riddle’: Shirley Jackson and Late 1950s’ Anthropology

Chapter 11 ‘At My Cooking I Feel It Looking’: Food, Domestic Fantasies and Consumer Anxiety in Sylvia Plath’s Writing

Chapter 12 ‘All that Zombies Allow’ Re-Imagining the Fifties in Far from Heaven and Fido