The Science of Monsters

Leigh, Janet, 21, 22

Leonard, Joshua, 180

Lesnicky, Needy (fic), 61

Levine, Ted, 41

The Life of St. Columba (Adomnan), 151

Lights Out, 139

Lipke, Allen, 159, 160–165, 198–199

Little Shop of Horrors, 58

Lloyd, Danny, 138

Loch Ness Monster, 151

locked-in syndrome, 70

logos, 144

Lomonosov Moscow State University, 124

Loomis, Dr. Sam (fic), 4, 7

The Lord of the Rings (Tolkien), 145, 204

Lost in a Pyramid: or, the Mummy’s Curse (Alcott), 80

Lost Person Behavior (Koester), 185

Loudon, Jane C., 80

Lovecraft, H. P., 151, 190

Lugosi, Bela, 51, 52, 76–77

lunar cycle, 203–204

lust killers, 33

lycanthropy, 203

Lyceum Theatre, 76

M

Macdonald, Shauna, 189

Macneil, Regan (fic), 91, 92

Madagascar, 58–59

Maddock, Brent, 197

The Madness of King George, 53

Maguire, Tobey, 115

Mai Vang, 14–17

Maki, Bob, 191, 192–194

Malcolm, Ian (fic), 75–76

Malita-Król, Joanna, 172

Malleus Maleficarum, 170

The Mammoth Cave, KY, 190, 191i

Mancini, Don, 8

Manhunter, 42, 43

Manson, Charles, 10

maras, 60

March, Fredric, 24

Maria (fic), 77

Marinoa people, 83–84

Marshall, Frank, 113, 115, 116

Marshall, Neil, 189, 191

Martin, Malachi, 90

Marzluff, John M., 125

Matilda, 173

Mayan culture, 82–83

Mayo Clinic, 70, 118, 119, 203

McKechnie, Claire, 113

McKee, Val (fic), 197

McNally, Kieran, 23

media, and violence, 9, 10

MEL meter, 132

Meldrum, Barbara Howard, 140

Méliès, Georges, 156

Melton, Jenny, 129–133, 134–135

Melville, Herman, 190

memory recall, hypnotic, 101–102

Mendoza, Natalie, 189

mermaids, 150–151

Michel, Anneliese, 88–89

Miller, Arthur, 170

Milo and Otis, 107

Milton, John, 151

Milwaukee Protocol, 112

mimic octopus, 204

Mindhunter, 44

mirror box therapy, 79

The Mist, 165

Miyazaki, Tsutomu, 57

Moby Dick (Melville), 190

The Monster of Frankenstein, 76

Monterey Bay, 121, 122

Moran, Kimberlee, 69

mosquitos, 58

Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), 22

In the Mouth of Madness, 165

MUFON UFO Journal, 151

Mufson, Beckett, 47

mummification process, 82

The Mummy, 80–84

burial practices, 82–83

embalming practices, 83

and funeral practices, 83–84

Karloff’s makeup routine, 81

mummification process, 82

and premature burial, 81

The Mummy!: Or a Tale of the Twenty-Second Century (Loudon), 80

Murnau, F. W., 56

mutable rain frog, 205

My Buddy dolls, 9

Myers, Frederic W.H., 138

Myers, Michael (fic.), 3, 4, 6, 7, 43

Myrick, Daniel, 180

N

Nasr, Constantine, 202

National Forest Service, 185

National Pubic Radio (NPR), 69

National Safety Council, 92

Nelson, Craig T., 129

nematodes, 198, 199

Netflix, 83

neutrinos, 159, 160–162

New Age Movement, 178

New York Post, 141

New York Times, 116, 156, 172

New York World, 58

Newburgh, William, 68

Nicholson, Jack, 137

Night of the Comet, 68

Night of the Living Dead, 67–74

biology of death, 69–74

body’s reaction to death, 70

car analogy of brain and fuel, 71, 72–73

death-mimicking diseases, 70

partial death, 71

source of energy, 72–74

“undead”ness, and zombie “brain damage,” 71–72

zombie movement, 71–72

cinematic history made by, 67

enduring legacy of, 69

Romero’s inspiration for, 69

tropes, 68

undead lore, historical, 68

and voodoo folklore, 68

“The Nightmare” (Fuseli), 60

A Nightmare on Elm Street, 13–18

Craven’s inspiration for Krueger, 18

Hmong culture, spiritual beliefs of, 14, 16

inspiration for, 13, 14, 16–17

sleep paralysis phenomenon and, 17–18

nightmares, 13, 60

The Nineteenth Century, 51

nocturnalism, 57

Nosferatu, 56–59

blood as food source, 57–58, 59

and carnivorous plants, 58–59

as copycat of Dracula, 56–57

and nocturnalism, 57

and “vampire killers,” 57

Nostradamus, 178

Nuevo León State Prison, 42

O

O Pioneers! (Cather), 140

O’Bannon, Dan, 158

O’Dea, Judith, 67

Okiku, 143

Old Testament, 169

O’Leary, Jim, 125

Oleson, J. C., 43, 44

Olivier, Laurence, 121

olms, 193–194

One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest, 28

Oort, Jan, 164

Opsasnick, Mark, 88

orb spiders, 94

organ donations, 77, 78–79

Orion Pictures, 42–43

Orlando Sentinel, 114

Orlok, Count (fic), 56

ornithophobia, 125

Orthodoxy, 90

Orwell, George, 145

Oswald, Lee Harvey, 10

Overlook Hotel (fic), 138, 139, 141

Owens, Dedrick Darnell, 5

oxpecker, 58

P

pagans, 171, 172

panic attacks, 117, 118

Papua New Guinea, 83

Paradise Lost (Milton), 151

parallel universes, 165

Paramount Pictures, 23, 79

Paramount Studios, 22

Paranormal Activity, 183

paranormal researchers, 129–136

ParaNorman, 170

Parrish, Gib, 14

Pastrana, Julia, 203

pathos, 144

Pauli, Wolfgang, 160

Payne, Nathan, 178–179

Peake, Richard Brinsley, 76, 77

Peck, Gregory, 108

Peele, Jordan, 98, 103

Penny Dreadful, 39

peripheral vascular disease, 71

Perkins, Anthony, 21, 22

phantom limb pain, 79