LOST GIRLS is the third book in Spectacular Optical’s ongoing series of limited run film and pop culture books, which includes KID POWER! (2014) and SATANIC PANIC: POP CULTURAL PARANOIA IN THE 1980s (2015) and will precede the previously announced YULETIDE TERROR: CHRISTMAS HORROR IN FILM AND TELEVISION, which will be released in fall of 2017. Curated and edited by Samm Deighan (DIABOLIQUE), contributors to LOST GIRLS include some of the most important critical voices to emerge over the last decade of genre journalism: Alexandra Heller-Nicholas (SENSES OF CINEMA), Kat Ellinger (DIABOLIQUE), Virginie Selavy (ELECTRIC SHEEP), Alison Nastasi (SATANIC PANIC: POP-CULTURAL PARANOIA IN THE 1980s), Marcelline Block (ART DECADES), Rebecca Booth (DIABOLIQUE), Michelle Alexander (CINEMADROME), Lisa Cunningham (THE LAUGHING DEAD: THE HORROR-COMEDY FILM FROM BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN TO ZOMBIELAND), Heather Drain (DANGEROUS MINDS), Erin Miskell (THAT’S NOT CURRENT), Gianna D’Emilio (DIABOLIQUE) and Kier-La Janisse (HOUSE OF PSYCHOTIC WOMEN), as well as veteran horror journalist Marcelle Perks (SHIVERS, EYEBALL). FULL LIST OF CONTENTS: Le viol du vampire and the Last Surrealist Riot By Gianna D’Emilio Cults of Decadence, Cults of Rebellion: La vampire nue and Fascination By Kat Ellinger Les paumées du petit matin: A View of Female Violence By Lisa Cunningham Blood Sisters: Female Intimacy in Jean Rollin’s Conte de fée By Samm Deighan Poète maudit and cinéaste paria: Tristan Corbière as Inspiration for Jean Rollin’s films Les Amours jaunes and La Rose de fer By Marcelline Block Disgracing the Family Name: Vampirism as Societal Rebellion in Le frisson des vampires By Heather Drain ‘Castles of Subversion’ Continued: From the roman noir and surrealism to Jean Rollin By Virginie Selavy Les démoniaques: Politics, Poetry, and the Supernatural Rape-Revenge Film By Alexandra Heller-Nicholas Manifestations In The Physical Plane: Rollin, Rape, and the Effects of Sexual Assault By Erin Miskell Phantasmes: Jean Rollin’s Hardcore Reveries and Work for Hire By Samm Deighan “Final Girl” Strategies in Les raisins de la mort, La nuit des traquées, and Les paumées du petit matin By Marcelle Perks The Zombie-Gore-Disaster Film…Jean Rollin Style By Michelle Alexander Love Among the Iron Roses: The Cemetery as a Romantic Nexus in the Films of Jean Rollin By Alison Nastasi Les trottoirs de Bangkok and Killing Car: Serials in Soulless Cities By Gianna D’Emilio Ostension, Orality, and the Ogress: The (Material) Feminist Fairy Tales of La fiancée de Dracula, La nuit des horloges, and Le masque de la Méduse By Rebecca Booth Afterword By Kier-La Janisse