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The Highway Horror Film argues that ´Highway Horror´ is a hither-to overlooked sub-genre of the American horror movie. In these films, the American landscape is by its very accessibility rendered terrifyingly hostile, and encounters with other travellers almost always have sinister outcomes.

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Acknowledgements Introduction: Bumps in the Road: Defining Highway Horror 1. ´I Almost Drove Right Past´: Motels and Highway Horror 2. ´That Truck Driver Tried to Kill Me!´ The Highway Nemesis Narrative 3. ´Let´s Go For a Ride, Otis´: Serial Killers in the Highway Horror Film 4. ´They Never Even Saw It Coming´: The Fatal Car Crash in the Highway Horror Film Notes Bibliography Filmography Index

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Bernice M. Murphy is Lecturer in Popular Literature at the School of English, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. Publications include The Suburban Gothic in American Popular Culture (2009), The Rural Gothic in American Popular Culture (2013) and the collections Shirley Jackson: Essays on the Literary Legacy (2005) and (with Darryl Jones and Elizabeth McCarthy) It Came From the 1950s: Popular Culture, Popular Anxieties (2011).

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