Includes index.

Bibliography: p. [183]-190.

Imagining the worst : Stephen King and the representation of women / Kathleen Margaret Lant and Theresa Thompson -- Cotton Mather and Stephen King : writing/righting the body politic / Edward J. Ingebretsen -- Patriarchal mediations of Carrie : the book, the movie, and the musical / Douglas Keesey -- Rituals of male violence : unlocking the (fe)male self in Gerald's game and Dolores Claiborne / Theresa Thompson -- Repulsive attractions : "The raft," the Vagina Dentata, and the slasher formula / Leonard Cassuto -- The power of the feminine and the gendered construction of horror in Stephen King's "The reach" / André L. DeCuir -- Gerald's game and Dolores Claiborne : Stephen King and the evolution of an authentic female narrative voice / Carol A. Senf -- "Oh dear Jesus it is female" : monster as mother/mother as monster in Stephen King's It / Linda Anderson -- It, a sexual fantasy / Karen Thoens -- Cars are girls : sexual power and sexual panic in Stephen King's Christine / Edward Madden -- The rape of constant reader : Stephen King's construction of the female reader and violation of the female body in Misery / Kathleen Margaret Lant.