Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Telefoni Gialli: Detective Stories in Fiction, Stage, and Film, 1929–1943 2. A New Giallo for a New Italy: From the Post-War Years to the Boom, 1945–1961 3. Kriminal Tango: The Giallo's Evolving Imagery in the 1960s 4. The Drooling of the Devil: Tales of Sex and Intrigue, 1967–1970 5. On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts: The Cinema of Dario Argento, 1970–1975 6. The Name of the Game Is Kill: The Argento–style Giallo … and Beyond, 1970–1980 Between pages 278 and 279 are 16 color plates containing 30 photographs 7. Smoke and Mirrors: Other Perspectives in the Genre, 1969–1979 8. … And Give Us Our Daily Murder: Made-for-TV Gialli in the 1970s 9. Murder Most Foul: The Changing Face of the Giallo in the 1980s 10. What Is Left of the Night? Different Shades of Giallo, 1990–1999 11. New Maps of Hell: Italian Giallo in the New Millennium Chapter Notes Bibliography Index