Uncanny modernity : cultural theories modern anxieties Introduction Jo Collins and John Jervis Uncanny presences John Jervis Night and the uncanny Elisabeth Bronfen Uncanny reflections modern illusions : sighting the modern optical uncanny Tom Gunning As it happened borderline the uncanny and the cosmopolitan James Donald Access denied : memory and resistance in the contemporary ghost film Scott Brewster The uncanny after Freud : the contemporary trauma subject and the fiction of Stephen King Roger Luckhurst Neurotic men and a spectral woman : Freud Jung and Sabina Spielrein Jo Collins The urban uncanny Julian Wolfreys Profane illuminations delicate and mysterious flames : mass culture and uncanny gnosis Michael Saler Terrorism and the uncanny or the caves of Tora Bora David Punter On the psychology of the uncanny : Ernest Jentsch translated by Roy Sellars