- The first transnational study of the uncanny child figure. - Proposes that transnational horror cinema presents subversive, postmodern images of childhood at the millennial turn, indicating a cultural movement away from modernist definitions of the child. - The first comparative analysis of an influential body of films from Spain, America, and Japan that dominated the horror genre in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, and the first book to outline the key preoccupations that unite this transnational body of films.