Douglas E. Cowan is Professor of Religious Studies and Social Development Studies at Renison University College. He is the author of Sacred Terror: Religion and Horror on the Silver Screen, Sacred Space: The Quest for Transcendence in Science Fiction Film and Television, and, most recently, America's Dark Theologian: The Religious Imagination of Stephen King.

Preface

1. Here Be Dragons
2. Once Upon a Time . . .
3. Imagining Magic
4. Between Puer Aeternus and Vitam Aeternam
5. The Mythic Hero: East
6. The Mythic Hero: West
7. Imagining the Warrior-Heroine
8. The Stuff of Legends
9. . . . Happily Ever After?

Mediography
Bibliography
Index