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Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.social · 10h
"I have crossed oceans of time to find you." "Love Never Dies" gives a rose to films like BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA, THE HUNGER & THE SHAPE OF WATER, all about coupling with the monster, figuratively and literally. @editrixemma.bsky.social @beaconpress.bsky.social www.beacon.org/Love-Never-D...
The cover of the book "Love Never Dies: Romance in Horror Movies" with a drawing of two happy skeletons facing each other, surrounded by flowers and a frilly portrait border.
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Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Silencio." The latest @filmquarterly.bsky.social celebrates the 25th anniversary of MULHOLLAND DRIVE with #openaccess essays on David Lynch's dreamy, doppelganger-y, and nearly impenetrable soap opera. online.ucpress.edu/fq/issue/80/1
On the left, the cover of the latest issue of Film Quarterly showing a dark-haired woman looking pensive (an image from the film MIRRORS NO. 3).On the right, an image from David Lynch's film MULHOLLAND DRIVE in which two blonde women (one in a wig) sit next to each other in a theater, clutching each other anxiously.
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Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Can't sleep, dolls will eat me. The latest @horrorhomeroom.bsky.social special issue is here, all about dolls, dollhouses, and the horrors of the miniature in LONGLEGS, WEDNESDAY, TALES FROM THE HOOD, THE TWILIGHT ZONE, and more. #openaccess www.horrorhomeroom.com/special-issu...
The cover of Special Issue #10 of Horror Homeroom, Dolls and Their Houses, featuring a drawing of a fantasy dollhouse in which each room contains a different scene, such as a ghostly figure sitting up in bed and a giant woman who fills the entire room.
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Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"… A year later, their footage was found." Michael Stock digs up the practically ancient 20th century website for THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT to see whether this "dead media" continues to haunt. Read his new essay in New Rvw Film & TV Studies @tandfresearch.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/1740...
On the left, a screenshot of the online article "Ephemeral archives of the vanishing present: the hauntological and the Uncanny in The Blair Witch Project website" in plain text.On the right, the homepage of the original website for THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT in black with the film's signature stick figure icon and some thumbnail photos.
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Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"Why just her classroom? Why only hers?" Jennifer Lee O'Donnell takes "a feminist reading of care, refusal, and the teacher's double bind" in Zach Cregger's WEAPONS. Just published online by Gender & Education @tandfresearch.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/0954...
On the left, a screenshot of the online article "Living monstrously: a feminist reading of care, refusal, and the teacher's double bind in Weapons," in plain text.On the right, an image from the 2025 movie WEAPONS in which the lead female character, a young woman with curly blonde hair, walks amid elementary school students, looking uncomfortable as school children turn to look at her.
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Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"It's a long fuckin' night. Even the dead get bored.” @deliabyrnes.bsky.social writes about "Horror, Extractivism & Exhausted Frontiers" amid the Alaskan wyrd of TRUE DETECTIVE: NIGHT COUNTRY. New and #openaccess at ISLE journal @asle-us.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/isle...
On the left, a screenshot of the article “Even the Dead Get Bored”: Horror, Extractivism, and Exhausted Frontiers in HBO’s True Detective: Night Country, in plain text.On the right, an image from the TV series TRUE DETECTIVE: NIGHT COUNTRY showing a frozen man's body sticking out of the snow, looking like an ice zombie.
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Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"I offer you immortality, my child." Creepy twins abound in Pamela Bedore & Anita Duneer's new book, "New Approaches to the Doppelganger." See Margaret Owens' chapter on uncanny doubles in MYSTERY OF THE WAX MUSEUM (1933). @routledgebooks.bsky.social www.routledge.com/New-Approach...
On the left, the cover of the book "New Approaches to the Doppelganger in Literature & Culture" with a generic cover of a multicolored triangle design.On the right, a black and white image from the 1933 film MYSTERY OF THE WAX MUSEUM in which a hideously disfigured man reveals his face to a woman, her back turned to the camera.
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Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
If you're an anxious American in the age of Trump, join the club. Terence McSweeney looks at "American Film & the Culture Wars," incl what THE HUNT, GET OUT & PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN say about the state of the nation. Out today from @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social www.bloomsbury.com/us/american-...
On the left, the cover of the book "American Film and the Culture Wars: Battleground in the Trump Era" featuring the famous photograph of President Trump raising his fist in triumph after escaping an assassination attempt.On the right, an image from the 2020 film THE HUNT in which a blonde woman raises a rifle, a sneering look on her face.
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Dr Rebecca Williams @augustaquarius.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Special Issue Call for Papers Horror Studies Special Issue: 'What Did Get Out Get Us?' Abstracts due: 31 October 2026 www.intellectbooks.com/horror-studi...
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Horror Studies
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...
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Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"This dream you're chasing, where you end up at the top of the mountain..." 14 essays on "Race, Genre, & Spectacle in Jordan Peele’s Nope" are new from @upmississippi.bsky.social, eds @ericgaryanderson.bsky.social Russell Meeuf @nancymcguireroche.bsky.social www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/T/The-...
The cover of the book "The Impossible Shot: Race, Genre, and Spectacle in Jordan Peele’s Nope," featuring a cartoon drawing of a scene from the film in which a lone rider on a horse stares up at a strange cloud formation looming in the sky.
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Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Start your Monday witchy: Cristina Ruiz-Poveda Vera and @joycarolann.bsky.social write about "a teen girl’s transition from innocence to (mis)understanding of her disability/power" in BLUE MY MIND and THELMA. New in Studies in European Cinema @tandfresearch.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/1741...
On the left, a screenshot of the article "The new monstrous-feminine and teen body horror: queer crip witches in Blue My Mind and Thelma" in plain text.On the right, the poster for 2017 film THELMA with a closeup of a teen girl's face on which a songbird lays upside down across her nose and eyes, as if dead, and creating a Christian cross symbol.
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Jimmy Packham @jfpackham.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
It's very exciting to say that Coastal Gothic, 1719–2020 has just been published in @universitypress.cambridge.org's Elements in the Gothic series – and it's currently open access and *free* to download until the end of December! doi.org/10.1017/9781...
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Coastal Gothic, 1719–2020
Cambridge Core - English Literature: General Interest - Coastal Gothic, 1719–2020
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Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
More about the Summer 2026 update: Many new keyword tags have been added, including Liminal Horror, Hag Horror, Beauty, Tourism, Time Travel, Musicals, and the very very important Nunsploitation! Browse by keyword: horrorlex.com/browse/categ...
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Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
More about the Summer 2026 update: Dozens of new films have been indexed because someone finally wrote about them, incl. DEAD TALENTS SOCIETY, HORROR IN THE HIGH DESERT, PSYCHO GOREMAN, MUTANT MASSACRE, MALENKA: FANGS OF THE LIVING DEAD, and SEPTIC MAN. Browse by film here: horrorlex.com/browse
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Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The Summer 2026 update is in! There's a new exciting feature: Check the "New to Horror Lex" box in Advanced Search to find everything that's been recently added. This idea brought to you by site user @jackxparker.bsky.social. Thanks a bunch! horrorlex.com/search
A screenshot of the Advanced Search page on HorrorLex.com with a big red arrow pointing to the new checkbox for "New to Horror Lex."
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Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Before today's horror business, I'm a New Yorker, so let me share a memory: In the days right after 9/11, all NYC shields came down. Strangers on the street asked "how are you doing?" Somebody crying on the subway got comforted from the next seat. Didn't last long. But it was magical.
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Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Amir Akiva Segal finds the Hollow World of the recent Godzilla/Kong films to be like global capitalism: "curiously empty at its center." Read his new essay #openaccess at #BrightLightsFilmJournal. brightlightsfilm.com/godzilla-and...
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Godzilla and Kong: The Hollow World and the Spirit of Capitalism - Bright Lights Film Journal
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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Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Go watch a movie this Labor Day weekend! The wolf has helped! letterboxd.com/horrorlex/li...
A screenshot of the Letterboxd list Workin' For a Killing: Horror Films for Labor Day, featuring thumbnails for SLAXX, THE BELKO EXPERIMENT, GRAVEYARD SHIFT, DEMONLOVER, BLOODSUCKING BASTARDS, and more.
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Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Site's back up, all is well. No idea what happened. Actually, I bet it was:
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Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The site is down for ... reasons. The wolf is on it! No one panic!
The main Horror Lex logo with werewolf Prof. Lex wearing a yellow hard hat.
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Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
"They're already here! You're next!" Barry Keith Grant's study of the original INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS is now in a second edition w/a new afterword about our very current AI anxieties, as seen in COMPANION (2025) & EX MACHINA (2014). New from #BFI www.bloomsbury.com/us/invasion-...
The cover of the book "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" featuring a lare close-up drawing of Kevin McCarthy's face as his character Miles from the orignal 1956 film. Two green leaves with eyeballs are partially covering his face as he stares ahead, terrified.
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Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
"We have had such a close bond." @stepforddaughter.bsky.social breaks down Brian De Palma's freaky twin thriller SISTERS minute-by-minute for @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social's book series. Releases today. www.bloomsbury.com/us/sisters-9...
The cover of the book "Sisters: Minute by Minute" featuring a watercolor-like drawing of a main character from the film, a woman with dark hair, looking concerned. Below is an inset picture of different woman sitting with a large Raggedy Ann doll.
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Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
KING KONG vs GODZILLA wasn't bad, it was just born (in Japan) that way. Steven Rawle looks back at Toho's misunderstood monster mashup and the concept of "badfilm" in a new and #openaccess essay from Journal of Aesthetics & Culture. doi.org/10.1080/2000...
On the left, a screenshot of the article "King Kong vs. Godzilla: how localisation produced 'badness,'" in plain text.On the right, a Japanese poster for the 1963 film KING KONG VS GODZILLA showing each of the two giant monsters in a rage.
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Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The power of Christ (and pesky demons) compels you! Mariana Pinheiro looks at THE EXORCIST and SAINT MAUD, two films in which belief is literally "Inscribed on the Flesh." New and #openaccess at #BrightLightsFilmJournal brightlightsfilm.com/inscribed-on...
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Inscribed on the Flesh: Belief, Horror and the Body in Saint Maud and The Exorcist - Bright Lights Film Journal
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[...]
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Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Get your Lost Boys and your Stake Lands at half price! "Vampires & the Making of the United States in the 21st Century" from @baconetti.bsky.social and friends is now in paperback. @routledgebooks.bsky.social www.routledge.com/Vampires-and...
On the left, the cover of the book "Vampires and the Making of the United States in the Twenty-First century" with a generic cover, a line-drawing of a cityscape.On the right, an image from the 1986 film THE LOST BOYS in which four teenage male vampires in rock 'n' roll outfits stare menacingly into the distance.
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Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
"They're all ging to laugh at you!" Emily Birtwistle considers Carrie's matricidal impulses in Chapter 8 of "Celebrity Mothers: Negotiating Fame, Gender, and Mothering." New from Demeter Press. demeterpress.org/books/celebr...
On the left, the cover of the book "Celebrity Mothers: Negotiating Fame, Gender, and Mothering," featuring a drawing of a cameo-type portrait of a smiling, dark-haired woman.On the right, an image from the 1976 film CARRIE in which Carrie White and her mother are on their knees, praying together.
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Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
"Only monsters play God, Baron." Azime Cantaş compares the treatment of the Other in one pre-modern (James Whale's) and one post-modern (Guillermo del Toro's) Frankenstein film. #openaccess in the latest issue of #Adaptation doi.org/10.1093/adap...
On the left, a screenshot of the article "From disciplinary order to ethical encounter: re-imagining Frankenstein's creature in cinema" in plain text.On the right, an image from Guillermo del Toro's 2025 FRANKENSTEIN movie, with Oscar Isaac playing Baron Frankenstein, leaning over his creation on the slab.
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Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
❓Question: What is the *most popular* name for this particular subgenre? Not your favorite, but the most common. A future Horror Lex tag depends on this! A) Hag horror B) Hagsploitation C) Grande dame guignol D) Psychobiddy
An image from the film WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE? in which two older White women (Bette Davis and Joan Crawford), the former made up in ghastly kabuki-like makeup, look out a window together with concerned looks on their faces.
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NightTide Magazine @nighttidemag.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
What do The Gift and The Devil’s Advocate have in common? Two very different films, one deliciously devilish question: what would you do with the power to change your fate? @editrixemma.bsky.social explores for #NightTideMag 👻📽️👹 nighttidemag.com/2026/08/20/s...
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BLESSINGS IN DISGUISE: GIFTS AND DEALS WITH THE DEVIL
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).
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Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Take a deep into the cold sea … "Baltic Horror in Film, Gaming and Literature" has essays all about the region that gave you POSSESSION, SAUNA, and the KRATT. @fernandopagnoni.bsky.social @uniwalespress.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
The cover of the book "Baltic Horror in Film, Gaming and Literature" featuring a photo of a gloomy forest in dark blue, green, and black.
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Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
"Beat 'em or burn 'em. They go up pretty easy." There's still more to learn about NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD if Simon Braund has anything to say about it. His new "The Official Story of the Film" has interviews, memorabilia & never-seen photos. @titanbooks.bsky.social titanbooks.com/72612-night-...
The cover of the book "Night of the Living Dead: The Official Story of the Film" featuring a large black and white photo of a female zombie from the film, glowering straight ahead with sunken eyes.
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Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
New gauze, old tropes. Tuğçe Kutlu calls out the orientalism in Lee Cronin's THE MUMMY, where ancient Egypt arises to infest the nice White kids of Albuquerque. Read her new essay @nighttidemag.bsky.social @openaccess. nighttidemag.com/2026/08/11/s...
A screenshot of the online article "Wrapped in the Colonial Gaze: Lee Cronin's The Mummy and the Persistence of Orientalist Horror," featuring an image from the film of an elderly woman, distressed as a zombie-fied hand caresses her face.
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Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
"Is this making you sick?" Declan Ackroyd draws a parallel between the unseen executioners of history and those lurking behind the camera in films like AUGUST UNDERGROUND and MARTYRS. @horrorhomeroom.bsky.social www.horrorhomeroom.com/the-digital-...
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The Digital Etchings of the Scaffold: The Executioner’s Anonymity and Audience Participation - Horror Movie - Horror Homeroom
The Digital Etchings of the Scaffold: The Executioner’s Anonymity and Audience Participation on Horror Homeroom
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Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Do you know your local blood-sucking fem-monster of cinema? Harri Chan brings Filipino folklore and history to "The Manananggal" in a new essay @whatsleepsbeneath.com www.whatsleepsbeneath.com/archive/mana...
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The Manananggal Explained: Filipino Horror, Feminism, and Colonialism
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...
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Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Beware, the South will rise again. William Matthew McCarter considers the "Politics of the Hillbilly Icon" in an underwritten-about Herschell Gordon Lewis film, TWO THOUSAND MANIACS! #BrightLightsFilm #openaccess brightlightsfilm.com/pleasant-val...
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Pleasant Valley as Funhouse Mirror: Regional Othering, Racial Displacement, and the Politics of the Hillbilly Icon in Herschell Gordon Lewis’s Two Thousand Maniacs! - Bright Lights Film Journal
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...
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Heatherface Wixson @thehorrorchick.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I’m a bit late in celebrating BLOW OUT’s 45th anniversary but I decided to do a deep dive into the character of Sally Bedina for my De Palma series because it’s one of my favorite Nancy Allen performances: from-the-desk-of-the-horror-chick.ghost.io/the-last-voi... Open to paid/free subscribers!
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The Last Voice You Hear: Sally Bedina and the Quiet Humanity at the Heart of Blow Out
Exploring horror, film, and pop culture, all while celebrating the creators, history, and artistry that keep the genre alive.
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Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Few scholars know the goopy, bloody, retch-inducing world of body horror quite like @xaldanareyes.bsky.social, and now he's got (another) book to prove it! "Body Horror: Biology, Biopower, Biotechnology" is out in paper & ebook @columbiaup.bsky.social cup.columbia.edu/book/body-ho...
The cover of the book "Body Horror: Biology, Biopower, Biotechnology" featuring a large photo of Jeff Goldblum as Seth Brundle, with a pockmarked face and partially transitioned to the titular creature in THE FLY (1986).
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Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
"She could have been a grey box." Janis Asprion looks under Ava's hood, and at what EX MACHINA has to say about "how fragile and contrived" our differences in gender and sexuality often are. #openaccess at #BrightLightsFilm brightlightsfilm.com/the-constrai...
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The Constraints of Gender: On Ex Machina (2015) - Bright Lights Film Journal
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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Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
OOF what a week.
The author's last 4 movies watched on Letterboxd: The Severed Sun (1.5 stars), Look What's Happened to Rosemary's Baby (0.5 star), Saccharine (2 stars), The Devil's Mouth (2.5 stars).
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Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
"She's our Friend, and she'll kill you!" The Summer 2026 issue of SLAYAGE journal isn't about Buffy but Hawkins, Indiana and all its heroic, hormonal, Eggo-obsessed adolescents. #openaccess Eds Kristine Larsen @banzailibrarian.bsky.social buffystudies.org/slayage-volu...
On the left, a screenshot of website for Slayage journal announcing the Summer 2026 issue, "Welcome to Hawkins, A Special Issue on Stranger Things."On the right, an image from the TV  series STRANGER THINGS in which a group of young teenagers stands together, with the lead girl (Eleven) staring intently and angrily at something offscreen.
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FAB Press @fabpress.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
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The FrightFest Guide to Japanese Horror Movies
Available to Pre-Order Now
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Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
"You're gonna be the last man standing, you are." @krp.bsky.social is on the trial of the white male monster hunter in THE WALKING DEAD, WEAPONS, and THE CONJURING in a new essay about "postracial fantasies" in genre fiction. Quarterly J of Speech. #openaccess doi.org/10.1080/0033...
On the left, a screenshot of the article "Hunting monsters: postracial fantasies in the third golden age of horror" in plain text.On the right, an image of character Daryl Dixon from the TV series THE WALKING DEAD, a dirty and disheveled man with stringy hair, holding an enormous crossbow-gun-combo-type weapon behind him.
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Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
"Who's going to book a room in the rape-slash-murder motel?" Consider Norma, Norman, and A&E's risk-taking in the BATES MOTEL series. "The Killer's Lust in Slasher TV" is new in J American Culture from Ahmad Hayat / Ines Petrovic Garcia / @thatprofallen.bsky.social @wileyonlinelibrary.bsky.social
On the left, a screenshot of the article "The Killer's Lust in Slasher TV and the Creative Risk-Taking Ventures of A&E" in plain text.On the right, a promotional image for the TV series BATES MOTEL, showing a teenage Norman Bates and his mother Norma, clutching each other a bit too much while sitting on a motel bed.
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Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
"You know what they called Ward A? The Snake Pit." "Madhouse Movies: Essays on the Depiction of Psychiatric Institutions" covers thrillers, dramas, and horrors like SESSION 9, BEDLAM, and DRACULA. Now out from @mcfarland.bsky.social and editor Sharon Packer mcfarlandbooks.com/product/madh...
The cover of the book "Madhouse Movies: Essays on the Depiction of Psychiatric Institutions" featuring a photo of Norman Bates from PSYCHO, one hand clasped over his mouth and one hand outstretched, as if he cannot bear to be seen.
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Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Good news/bad news for your Monday: We're ALL dying. "Contagion: Between Contiguity & Community" is now out with a chapter from Marta Miquel-Baldellou about aging as a disease as seen in RELIC, THE ETERNAL DAUGHTER & THE MANOR. #openaccess from @degruyterbrill.bsky.social doi.org/10.1515/9783...
On the left, the cover of the book "Contagion: Between Contiguity and Community" with a generic grey background with a line drawing of a nerve complex.On the right, an image from the 2020 film RELIC in which an elderly woman with bloody injuries sits in a bathtub, looking forlorn.
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Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
"There are certain rules that one must abide by…" @drstevejones.bsky.social challenges what you think you know about "The Postmodern Slasher Film" including that it started with SCREAM. Now in paperback from @edinburghup.bsky.social edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-pos...
The cover of the book "The Postmodern Slasher Film" featuring a large photo of Ghostface from the SCREAM series.
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Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
L'horreur, c'est notre nationalité. Reece Goodall's tome on "French Horror: Industry, Society and Media" tackles the country's 21st century knives in the belly, shots in the spine, and hordes in the banlieu. New from @edinburghup.bsky.social edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-french-...
The cover of the book "French Horror: Industry, Society and Media" featuring an image from the film INSIDE showing a young pregnant woman, her upper torso covered in blood.
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Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
"They're all going to laugh at you!" Matthew Eng revisits lonely girl Carrie White as inhabited by Sissy Spacek as part of the Museum of the Moving Image's summer DePalma restrospective. @reverseshot.bsky.social reverseshot.org/features/347...
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The Loneliest Girl: Sissy Spacek in Carrie
Goings-on at Museum of the Moving Image
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MANOR @manorhq.com · 28/07/2026
Over at Bloody Disgusting @bloody-disgusting.com, MANOR Resident and Holy Terrors co-host Brian Keiper @brianwaves42.bsky.social wrote a piece about THE OMEN to celebrate its recent 50th anniversary. LOOK AT IT DEAR READER! IT’S ALL FOR YOU! 😈 bloody-disgusting.com/editorials/3... 1/3
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Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
@mikemuncer.bsky.social's superstar podcast is now in book form and available stateside. "The Evolution of Horror" covers the tentpoles of slashers, ghosts, vampires, zombies, mind & body, occult folk, and cosmic horror flicks in a nice 'n' glossy package. www.headline.co.uk/titles/mike-...
The cover of the book "The Evolution of Horror: A Terrifying Guide to Horror Movie History" with a red and black stylized drawing showing various monsters walking along a path, in silhouette.
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