Focusing on programs from the 1970s to the early 2000s, this volume explores televised youth horror as a distinctive genre that affords children productive experiences of fear. Led by intrepid teenage investigators and storytellers, series such as Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated and Are You Afraid of the Dark? show how young people can effectively confront the terrifying, alienating, and disruptive aspects of human existence. The contributors analyze how televised youth horror is uniquely positioned to encourage young viewers to interrogate―and often reimagine―constructs of normativity. Approaching the home as a particularly dynamic viewing space for young audiences, this book attests to the power of televised horror as a domain that enables children to explore larger questions about justice, human identity, and the preconceptions of the adult world. “Reader, beware! The kids who grew up sitting too close to the television or peeking through their fingers to watch Goosebumps and Watership Down have grown up, and they are here to mine their childhood nightmares to frighteningly satisfying ends. Youth Horror Television and the Question of Fear unites the most exciting new and established voices in the field to give long overdue attention to this fascinating area of study.” ―Catherine Lester, University of Birmingham “ Youth Horror Television and the Question of Fear elevates the unmediated yet communal experience of watching TV to a source of both joyful reminiscence and satisfying critical intervention. It recognizes how ‘televised youth horror’ spawns horror-loving adults, exposing them to the haunting powers of narrative from a young age. This is a neglected area of contemporary horror’s origin story.” ―Laura R. Kremmel, Niagara University Filipa Antunes is Lecturer in Humanities, specialising in media and culture, at the University of East Anglia, UK. She teaches a range of modules around these subjects on the Humanities Foundation Year, the Liberal Arts degree, and the Film, Television, and Media degrees. Her main research interests are childhood and popular culture, especially when the two intersect; ratings and other forms of media regulation; boundaries between childhood and adulthood (and the culture of children and adults); and representations of childhood, parenthood, and family. Merinda Staubli is a sessional tutor and guest lecturer at RMIT University, Australia. She has forthcoming publications on the meanings, impacts and characteristics of children's horror television. Her PhD thesis (RMIT University, 2022) was entitled 'Spectral Thresholds and Monstrous Pedagogies: Characterising and Remembering Millennial Children's Horror Television'.