Introduction -- Wicked Prisms: Monstrosity as Vor-Schein PART I. THE MONSTER AS SIGNAL 1. The Monstrous Body is a Discursive Body 2. "There Be Dragons.Awashed in the New World" 3. The Monstrous-Feminine in Performances by Florentina Holzinger 4. Many Monsters in One: Ipi Zombi ? And Post-Apartheid South African Sociophonics 5. Who is the Monster? Naming the Monster as Performative Act in Koreeda Hirozaku's Monster (2023) PART II.

LOOKING THROUGH THE MONSTER'S EYES 6. "Here Comes the Hurricane": Confronting Environmental Monstrosity through Comedic Performance 7. Haunting the Genre: The Transformative Power of Immersive Performance in Haunted Attractions 8. Walk Toward The Sunset : Epidemic as Test in Melungeon Narrative 9. Revenge of the Monster Queer: The Cosmic Horror and Eldritch Liberation of Drag 10. Dancing the Monstrous: Manifestations of Female Sexuality in Horror PART III. THE MONSTER IS US 11. Fearing the Monster Within: Abjection and Empathy in The Whale 12.

Dreams of Carcosa: The Utopian Space of Weird Horror and Theatre or a Reparative Reading of The King in Yellow 13. Monstrous Embodiments: The Artistic and Political Potential of Drag Practices in Buenos Aires 14. Vultures and Mud: The Transformational Ecologies of Ochún Ibú Kolé 15. Teratological Becoming(s): Exploring Black Religion Through Monstrous Performance.