Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction - Calum Waddell Part I. Early Provocations 1. Carving Against the Grain: The Case of Carving Magic - Jack O'Dwyer 2. In the Name of Ishtar: Herschell Gordon Lewis' Blood Feast - Jialu Zhu 3. Unearthing the Past and Facing the Present: A Historical and Social Reading of Two Thousand Maniacs! - Erika Tiburcio Moreno 4. "Obscene, disgusting, perverted and sadistic": Existentialism, Absurdism, and the "Blood Trilogy" of Herschell Gordon Lewis - Daniel Tilsley Part II. Texts of Transgression: The Bloody Bombast of Herschell Gordon Lewis 5. Just For the Smell of It: Offal and Olfactory Awfulness in the Horror Films of Herschell Gordon Lewis - David Scott Diffrient 6.

"It all seems too real": Herschell Gordon Lewis and Theaters of Horror - Richard J. Hand 7. The Wizard of Bore: Magic, Authorship and Tedium - Murray Leeder 8. The Black List? Herschell Gordon Lewis, Black Love and the Dubious Pleasures of "Pure" Paracinema - Calum Waddell Part III. Rethinking "The Godfather of Gore": Lewis Legacies and the "Art" of Schlock and Awe 9. Herschell Gordon Lewis, This Stuff'll Kill Ya!, and the "State" of Oklahoma - Gary D. Rhodes 10. Where do these people come from? Abjection and audience reception in the films of Herschell Gordon Lewis and John Waters - Joseph M.

Sirianni 11. Bloody and Bawdy: Herschell Gordon Lewis's Comedy of the Body - Kate Russell 12. Herschell in Video-Land: Consuming Blood Feast 2 - Calum Waddell.