"Horror Culture in the New Millienium surveys horror culture in the first two decades of the new millennium through a series of critical essays on the changing character of dark storytelling. It is a journey both into the complexity of the evolution of communication and the stories we tell about what it means to be human"--.

• Contents
• Abstract
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1 The Nature of Technohorror
  • A Taxonomy of the Horrific
  • Toward a Definition of Technohorror
  • On the Nature of Medium, Production, and Content
• 2 Pioneering Platforms
  • Interview Findings and theEvolving Digital Paradigm
  • Recognizing an Eternal Narrative
• 3 From Folklore to Netlore
  • Cultivating Digital Materiality
  • Folklore as MeaningfulCommunication in Digital Contexts
• 4 Transcendence in Technohorror
  • Posthumanism: Speculating beyond the Human Individual
  • Degeneration: Overcoming the Broken Body
  • Transcendence: Rejecting theBody for the Machine
  • Reconnecting with Our Human Heritage
• 5 Technohorror and the Human Condition
  • Technologies of Terror and the Loss of the Self
  • Navigating the Paradox of Progressive Science and Natural Aging
  • Toward a Healthy Approach to Life and Longevity
• 6 Programming Nightmares
  • Interview Findings and AssessingHorror in the Twenty-First Century
  • Recognizing the Dilemma
  • Finding a Way Forward
• References
• Index
• About the Author