Love Never Dies

Emma Cole is an editor at Harlequin and a horror film enthusiast, having studied film and communications at the University of Windsor before completing the Book & Magazine Publishing program at Centennial College and working at several publishers in the editorial department. She has written about film and genre for Gamut Magazine, Night Tide, Film East, and Reactor, and she volunteers as the Notes and Queries editor for the Journal of Popular Romance Studies. Emma lives in Ontario with her family and shelves upon shelves of movies. You can find her at various places on the internet as @EditrixEmma.

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INTRODUCTION
Horror and Romance—Opposites Attract

CHAPTER ONE
Meet Cute—Where Does Horror Romance Start?

CHAPTER TWO
Forbidden Love—Monster Romance

CHAPTER THREE
Deep Dive—Romance and Repression in Cat People

CHAPTER FOUR
Queer Representation in Horror Romance Cinema

CHAPTER FIVE
Slashers—The Anti-Romance Film

CHAPTER SIX
Deep Dive—Is Hitchcock Horror, Romance, or Both?

CHAPTER SEVEN
Vampires—Sex, Death, and Twilight

CHAPTER EIGHT
Deep Dive—The Two Davids: Horror Romance from Cronenberg and Lynch

CHAPTER NINE
Second-Chance Romance—Return to the Gothic

CHAPTER TEN
Grumpy/Sunshine—Horror Meets Rom-Com

CHAPTER ELEVEN
You’re the Worst—Monsters in Love

CHAPTER TWELVE
The New Romantics—Horror Romance in the 2020s

Movies Discussed
International Horror Romance Films
Further Reading
Acknowledgments
Notes