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A Mutual Fascination: British Horror and the Psy Disciplines

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A Leverhulme Trust Research Project, based at the University of Glasgow, investigating the relationship between the ‘psy disciplines’ and horror fiction in British culture.

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A Mutual Fascination: British Horror and the Psy Disciplines @mutualfascination.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
You can now listen to the project's Georgia Walton chat about the films of Pete Walker on Butter Popcorn radio show www.chapelfm.co.uk/elfm-player/...
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Butter Popcorn
Airs Fridays at 4pm week 4 of the month. Listen in to hear what makes great cinema. Our radio schedule works on a week 2 & week 4 basis. Week two begins on the second Tuesday of each month.
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A Mutual Fascination: British Horror and the Psy Disciplines @mutualfascination.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
New blog post now up! Read on for some thoughts on Anna Bogutskaya's emotion-led portrait of post-2014 horror. horror.glasgow.ac.uk/review-feedi... @drgavinmiller.bsky.social
Book cover with a dark background and the title 'Feeding the Monster' in large red font. The font is stylised so that it looks like blood is dripping from it and there are silhouettes of flies surrounding in. Below this there are endorsements in white text that read, 'A worthy successor to Stephen King's Danse Macabre.' (Esquire) and 'Timely and deeply empathetic' (Observer). At the bottom, the book's subtitle 'Why horror has a hold on us?' is in white text with the author name 'Anna Bogutskaya' in red below.
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Gavin Miller @drgavinmiller.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
My new minigraph Penguins on the Couch Penguin Books and the Psychologization of Britain, c.1945–c.1980 is FREE TO DOWNLOAD until 25 August www.cambridge.org/core/element... My thanks to @britishacademy.bsky.social for the Small Grant and @bristolunilib.bsky.social for Penguin Archive access
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Cambridge Core - Printing and Publishing History - Penguins on the Couch
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A Mutual Fascination: British Horror and the Psy Disciplines @mutualfascination.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Fascinating to see Dorothy Burlingham's 1952 studies on the development of twins @britishlibrary.bsky.social today. Complete with fold out charts and colour-coded text for each child 👯‍♀️ @drgavinmiller.bsky.social
A fold-out page in a book that shows a chart with writing in red, blue and black. The title on the cover reads 'March 1943, Bert and Bill, 17 months'
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A Mutual Fascination: British Horror and the Psy Disciplines @mutualfascination.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Great to see the project summarised in the Leverhulme Trust's annual review.
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A Mutual Fascination: British Horror and the Psy Disciplines @mutualfascination.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
New blog post on Jack Clayton's beautiful and disturbing adaptation of The Turn of the Screw, The Innocents. Read on for reflections on how the film fits in with the broader psychologisation of British Horror in the 60s 👻 @drgavinmiller.bsky.social horror.glasgow.ac.uk/the-innocent...
A screenshot of film titles for The Innocents. The image is black and white, mainly dark with hands clasped in prayer faintly visible to the left. The words, The Innocents are in italicised font across the image.
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Mary Wild @psycstar.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
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A Mutual Fascination: British Horror and the Psy Disciplines @mutualfascination.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Fascinating article by @carminepariante.bsky.social in yesterday's Guardian looking at the psychology of terror and horror fiction www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...
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I’m a psychiatrist who was terrified of horror films – until I learned about ‘cinematic neurosis’
Why do scary movies thrill some viewers and send others running for the hills? Our writer gets to the bottom of his fear of the genre – with the assistance of Freud, clinical researchers and his six-y...
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Gavin Miller @drgavinmiller.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Great to see this volume getting the recognition it deserves. @mutualfascination.bsky.social
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Gavin Miller @drgavinmiller.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Find our British Horror and Psychologization project here in the Leverhulme 2025 Annual Review. We're 'revolting reading for slime observants' p.60 ... @mutualfascination.bsky.social @glasgow.ac.uk @uofgartshums.bsky.social
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A Mutual Fascination: British Horror and the Psy Disciplines @mutualfascination.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Head over to our blog to read about some of the weird and wonderul films we've been watching recently horror.glasgow.ac.uk/killers-moon/ @drgavinmiller.bsky.social
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A Mutual Fascination: British Horror and the Psy Disciplines @mutualfascination.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Our interview with Dave Jeffery and Lee Murray of the @horrorwritersassoc.bsky.social is now up on The Psychologist. We learn about their Bram Stoker nominated anthology and chat about all things horror and psychology. Follow the link to find out more... www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...
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‘Horror is the mirror by which we hold society to account’ | BPS
Dr Georgia Walton meets horror writers Dave Jeffery and Lee Murray (pictured).
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A Mutual Fascination: British Horror and the Psy Disciplines @mutualfascination.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
New blog post on the Hammer and Amicus film director Freddie Francis now up horror.glasgow.ac.uk/freddie-fran...
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A Mutual Fascination: British Horror and the Psy Disciplines @mutualfascination.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
This week I’ve been chatting with Dave Jeffrey and Lee Murray, whose recent collection This Way Lies Madness has been nominated for a Bram Stoker Award @horrorwritersassoc.bsky.social. Congratulations to them! 🎉🎉🎉Read more about the collection over on our blog horror.glasgow.ac.uk/this-way-lie...
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A Mutual Fascination: British Horror and the Psy Disciplines @mutualfascination.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
New post now live on the project blog. Follow this link (horror.glasgow.ac.uk/herbert-read...) to learn more about how art critic Sir Herbert Read thought about the horror comics controversy of the 1950s
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A Mutual Fascination: British Horror and the Psy Disciplines @mutualfascination.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Our project blog is now up and running. Stay tuned for research news, events and more... horror.glasgow.ac.uk
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British Horror and Psychologization
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A Mutual Fascination: British Horror and the Psy Disciplines @mutualfascination.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
The Ice Tower, which tells of a young girl's obsession with Hans Christian Andersen's The Snow Queen, resonates with mid-century pscyhological approaches to horror. Hadžihalilovic's film draws out the seductive danger in Andersen's tales that led P.M. Pickard to deem them 'unsuitable for children'.
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A Mutual Fascination: British Horror and the Psy Disciplines @mutualfascination.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
'And, if we become gripped by this type of fear, our minds are opened wide to the psychological suggestion that we too are at risk of invasion by similar powers of evil.' - A pamphlet distributed by campaigners at screenings of The Exorcist (Ban this Filth! Letters from the Mary Whitehouse Archive)
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A Mutual Fascination: British Horror and the Psy Disciplines @mutualfascination.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Great to spend some time with the Herbert Read archive at Leeds University Cultural Collections this morning. Very interesting to see how intertwined discourses on aesthetic education and psychology were in the post-war years.
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Ashe Sass-Woodward @sassorcista.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
For my American horror homies this Thanksgiving: A great article to send a family member on why we love scary movies. www.bbc.com/future/artic... #horrorcommunity #horrormovies #anxiety
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'The paradox of horror': How scary films can soothe your anxiety
Jump scares and gore might not seem like the most soothing watching, but scary films can actually be the ideal therapy during anxious times.
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A Mutual Fascination: British Horror and the Psy Disciplines @mutualfascination.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Great to see this article by @alasmorrison.bsky.social that explores the relationship between genre fiction and psychiatric care while making a case for interdisciplinary study. mh.bmj.com/content/earl...
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Psych ward gothic: melodrama, hospitalisation anxiety and a case for the humanities in psychiatric research
This article offers a critical assessment of representations of psychiatric hospitalisation in modern Western societies, with the goal of informing clinicians’ approach to communication and reassuranc...
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Headpress @headpress.com · 12/11/2025
London folks: come to @miskatonicihs.bsky.social on 9 December to hear Headpress Press Officer @harbottlestores.bsky.social talk about the history of the asylum on film. #histpsych #horror #session9 #historyofhorror #horrorstudies Tickets: miskatonicinstitute.com/events/the-a...
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"And where do you live, Simon"? The Asylum and its Patients on Film - The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies
Exploring film, folklore, and media, this lecture asks why female rage is pathologised while male violence remains disturbingly normalised.
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A Mutual Fascination: British Horror and the Psy Disciplines @mutualfascination.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
work begins...
A photo of a blank notebook and two books; P.M. Pickard's I Could A Tale Unfold and Martin Baker's A Haunt of Fears: The Strange History of the British Horror Comics Campaign.
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