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Victorian sex, sharp fangs, poisoned blood -- Muyuan Rong considers Stoker's Dracula, in book and film form, as a reflection of fin-de-siècle fears of contracting syphilis from unchaste women. Read this well-researched & #openaccess essay in The Wenshan Review. #horror doi.org/10.30395/WSR...

The expanded edition of @kierlajanisse.bsky.social's "House of Psychotic Women" is now in paperback, for the very sane price of 20 quid. No reason not to have this widely-read memoir about trauma, growing up, and cult films on your shelf. #FABPress #horror www.fabpress.com/house-of-psy...

Absent fathers, insane mothers, possessed kids … Wu Yi Chun looks to Taiwanese horror like INCANTATION & THE TAG-ALONG to see national identity in haunted families. Check out his chapter in the new "The Asian Family in Literature & Film." #horror link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

What exactly *feels* horrifying about CAT PEOPLE or Hammer's DRACULA? Find out in "What Ought to Scare You: Affect and Hollywood Horror Discourses, 1922-1968," new from author H. Marshall Leicester and @mcfarland.bsky.social #horror mcfarlandbooks.com/product/what...

For straight talk on twisted gender in SLEEPAWAY CAMP, THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS & many more films, check out "Corpses, Fools & Monsters: The History & Future of Transness in Cinema" by @cadenmgardner.bsky.social & @willowcatelyn.bsky.social. Now out! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/725695...

Greed is the goblin in two new books. Penny Crofts & pals expose Weyland-Yutani & more "Evil Corporations." In "Capitalism: A Horror Story" Jon Greenaway has a gothic-Marxist take on films like PARASITE. #Routledge #RepeaterBooks #horror tinyurl.com/2rk57fm8 tinyurl.com/33ajh8tx

Break out the sunscreen & bikinis, we’re going swimming! The Aquatic Horror Research Guide (Part 1 of 2) is live on the blog with a vast sea of scholarship from #murrayleeder #gothicnature #kimmorrison @sjartt.bsky.social @eddiefalvey.bsky.social + many more. #horror horrorlex.com/blog/aquatic...

Our House of Hammer is full to the roof: the bedrock Dracula & Frankenstein films, Prof. Quatermass, kung fu vampires, up to the modern THE LODGE (2019). "Critical Readings on Hammer #Horror Films" is ready at #Routledge. Eds Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns / Matthew Edwards tinyurl.com/2p8vbrx6

Paws up for those "corrupted" by monsters in their youth and lived to tell the tale. Sarah Cleary's moral panic-busting "The Myth of Harm: Horror, Censorship & the Child" is now available in a $36 paperback from #Bloomsbury. #horror www.bloomsbury.com/us/myth-of-h...

Meet The Grahams, a queer family in more ways than one ... Lukas Hellmuth suggests a new mode of interpreting HEREDITARY (2018) in "In Search for Alternatives: Queer Theorizing, Affect, & the Horror Film." In Journal of the Austrian Assoc for Am Stud. #openaccess #horror doi.org/10.47060/jaa...

This city is trash, our lives are trash, and those Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers are definitely trash. Oscar Mardell picks thru the bin in "Garbageman: C.H.U.D. at 40" at #brightlightsfilmjournal. #openaccess #horror brightlightsfilm.com/garbageman-c...

What's going on underneath that mask, killer? Cody Parish is "Reconsidering the Neurodivergent Slasher Villain in In a Violent Nature" at #HorrorHomeroom. #openaccess #horror www.horrorhomeroom.com/a-killer-per...

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Just wanted to spread the word about the upcoming launch for this fabulous essay collection! Kathleen Hudson and Mary Going were kind enough to include my essay on Cotton Mather's bizarre Jonah sermon. It concludes with shout outs to The Meg by Steve Alten and Whalefall by @danielkraus.bsky.social🐳🦈

The new Monstrum is full of, no surprise, monsters! Essays on SINISTER, MONSTERS (2010), marketing Freddy Krueger & a special chat w/Bruce LaBruce. M Clody / G Kramer / N Mellor / @caseyjoewalker.bsky.social / Ed. K Woofter #MontrealMonstrumSociety #horror www.monstrum-society.ca/monstrum-v7-...

With 80+ new interviews w/friends, family & colleagues and exclusive photos and insights, "The Soul of Wes Craven" aims to be the definitive chronicle of a gentle life in #horror. (Also gently priced.) New from @harkerpress.bsky.social + author Joseph Maddrey. www.harkerpress.com/wes-aboutthe...

“What happened to my sweet girl?” Robyn Ollett talks about queer ladies and monstrous appetites in "The New Queer Gothic," covering BLACK SWAN, THE HANDMAIDEN, RAW, and more. Now out in print from U Wales Press. #horror www.uwp.co.uk/book/the-new...

GoPro, meet your grandpa: the body-mounted camera. Cooper Long explains the cinematic tech used in John Frankenheimer's surgical sci-fi thriller SECONDS (1966) & later films like REQUIEM FOR A DREAM. In the latest Film History, just landed on #ProjectMuse. #horror muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...

"Religious Horror & the Ecogothic" is now out incl. essays on how Christianity aligns with Dr. Moreau's dominion, folk horror, postmodern ecohorror & Nordic trolls. Eds @mazgoing.bsky.social & @kathleenh42.bsky.social w/ Agnieszka S Monnet, Kaja Franck + others. #horror rowman.com/ISBN/9781666...

This is one cult you should feel good about joining. "Reappraising Cult Horror Films" is new from #Bloomsbury. Ed. Lee Broughton w/ @craigimann.bsky.social and many other contribs. #horror www.bloomsbury.com/us/reapprais...

"'The world is a fine place and worth fighting for…' I agree with the second part." Richard Dyer has a 2nd edition of his monograph on one of the greatest serial killer stories ever told, SE7EN (1995). Out today from #Bloomsbury. #horror www.bloomsbury.com/us/seven-978...

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Happy to announce I have another guest post at Horror Homeroom, about M. Night Shyamalan's "The Village". www.horrorhomeroom.com/whats-actual...

What's Actually the Problem with M. Night Shyamalan's The Village? - Horror Movie - Horror Homeroomwww.horrorhomeroom.com What's Actually the Problem with M. Night Shyamalan's The Village? on Horror Homeroom

White supremacy is alive and well in horror media, even in Black-focused films like ANTEBELLUM and CANDYMAN (1992), says L. B. Bailey. Read their new essay in Feminist Media Studies, "How horror films constructs Blackness." #horror doi.org/10.1080/1468...

How did Frankenstein's monster morph from creepy hulk to benign joke? Why giggle after a jump scare? Some smart folks explain in an #openaccess study in Evolutionary Psychology. Marc Hye-Knudsen / Jens Kjeldgaard-Christiansen / Brian Boutwell / Mathias Clasen #horror doi.org/10.1177/1474...

From his early shorts to THE DIABOLICAL DR. Z, read all about the first years of the King of European Cult, Jess Franco. "The Films of Jesús Franco, 1953-1966" by Francesco Cesari and Roberto Curti is now out from @mcfarland.bsky.social. #cultfilm #horror mcfarlandbooks.com/product/the-...

How do you become a woman when you'll always be a fish? James Rose explores the complications of human-animal girl-woman hybridity in THE LURE (2015) in a new essay at #HorrorHomeroom. www.horrorhomeroom.com/silver-and-g...

Silver and Gold: The Quiet and the Storm Disturbing Hybridity in Agnieszka Smoczyńska’s The Lure - Horror Movie - Horror Homeroomwww.horrorhomeroom.com Silver and Gold: The Quiet and the Storm Disturbing Hybridity in Agnieszka Smoczyńska’s The Lure on Horror Homeroom

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Pre-order our book! Also is you live near a rep cinema spread the word on this. While we do have upcoming screening events tied to the book, it would be nice for programmers to know there’s audience interest too.

Happy Pride! Please buy our book! bookshop.org/p/books/corp...

Can Leatherface help teach empathy? Laneshia Conner & Rujeko Machinga-Asaolu say yes in a new essay about using THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE & NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD etc w/social work students. New #openaccess J of Teaching in Social Work #horror doi.org/10.1080/0884...

The dusty head mounted on the wall may one day be your own. "Taxidermy and the Gothic: The Horror of Still Life," on trophies of fur & feathers & the terror they inspire, is now out from author Elizabeth Effinger and Anthem Press. Ebook only 20 quid! #horror #gothic anthempress.com/taxidermy-an...

Brutality meets Brutalism in the 2015 class warfare thriller HIGH-RISE. Turkish Prof. Erdinç Yılmaz parses the meaning of the walls, balconies, and windows of a luxury apartment tower in a new #openaccess essay (in English) in IDA Journal. #horror #architecture idajournal.com/index.php/id...