Horror Studies; Horror Studies is a peer-reviewed academic journal devoted to the rigorous study of horror in all its manifold cultural and historical forms. With a strong interdisciplinary focus, the...

Cambridge Core - English Literature: General Interest - Coastal Gothic, 1719–2020

And so we arrive at the hollow world. Not merely the subterranean kingdom of Kong and Godzilla but the cultural landscape of global capitalism itself: a world filled with endless[...]

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In Saint Maud, belief is internalised: the body becomes the site of self-monitoring, discipline, and ecstatic surrender, so that authority no longer needs to come from outside because it has[...]

Emma Cole explores the seductive dangers of otherworldly temptation, and what happens when we’re given the power to change our fate through The Gift (2000) and The Devil’s Advocate (1997).

The Digital Etchings of the Scaffold: The Executioner’s Anonymity and Audience Participation on Horror Homeroom

Within Filipino folklore, no creature captivates and horrifies like the viscera-sucker, or manananggal . In Ramos’s taxonomy of aswangs, they are typically portrayed as beautiful women with long hair...

By erasing Black presence entirely, displacing the historical reality of racial violence onto white-on-white revenge, and reviving the hillbilly icon in its most unabashedly vicious form, Lewis’s film...

Exploring horror, film, and pop culture, all while celebrating the creators, history, and artistry that keep the genre alive.

There’s a different, far more potent layer to this film; one actually relevant to most, if not all, people watching. It hinges on a question Caleb asks Ava’s creator after[...]

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