List of FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Horror Is LivingPart I: Loss and the Child: Grief and Endangered YouthChapter 1: Horror at the Crossroads: Mapping the Child’s Grief in Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)Chapter 2: “We Can Survive This”: An Examination of Loss and Grief in Juan Antonio Bayona’s El orfanato (The Orphanage) (2007)Chapter 3: Elevating Grief: Ari Aster’s Hereditary (2018) and the A24 Horror FilmPart II: Loss and Gender: Grief and Motherhood/WomanhoodChapter 4: To Make You Feel My Love: Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook (2014), Motherhood, and LossChapter 5: The Myth of the Natural Woman: Horror and Grief in Ari Aster’s Midsommar (2019)Part III: Loss and National Identity: Grief and HistoryChapter 6: O Father, Where Art Thou?: Grief and Cannibal Culture in Jorge Michel Grau’s Somos lo que hay (We Are What We Are) (2010)Chapter 7: Sadness Is Rebellion: The Ontopolitics of Queer Loss in The Life and Death of a Porno Gang (2009)Chapter 8: The Grieving Dead: Haunting and the Haunted in the Spierig Brothers’ Winchester (2018)Part IV: Loss and the Known World: Grief and AnnihilationChapter 9: “No One Will Miss It”: Lars Von Trier’s Antichrist (2009) and Melancholia (2011) and the World-Without-UsIndexAbout the Contributors