Reminder - Call for papers: HORROR STUDIES NOW, May 28/29 2026, Northumbria University t.co/QK7DDTdeNb

New on the Studies in the Fantastic blog!💫🩸📖 Rivers of Blood: Racial Capitalism and the Emergence of the British Asian Vampire Ami Nisa's essay explores the powerful emergence of the British Asian vampire in media! utampapress.org/rivers-of-bl... @horrorstudies.bsky.social #Vampire #Blog #SFF

Horror Studies Now is a fantastic conference and with a Jan 30th deadline there is still plenty of time to get those abstracts in! Check it out #Horror scholars 👇 #HorrorSky

Check out this article by @ami-n.bsky.social - based on a paper presented at Horror Studies Now 2024, for which Dr Nisa received an Honorable Mention for the Peter Hutchings Award for Outstanding Contribution to Horror Studies #horrorNU utampapress.org/rivers-of-bl...

Grab yourself a half price copy of my books - The Metamodern Slasher Film shorturl.at/wOga0 - The Postmodern Slasher Film shorturl.at/j43ry or any of the excellent books by my fellow members of @horrorstudies.bsky.social @profsaabbott.bsky.social @kte75.bsky.social @russhunter.bsky.social

Until 9am 1st Dec @edinburghup.bsky.social titles are half price! Abbott: shorturl.at/U4HDB Egan: shorturl.at/QobQl Hunter: shorturl.at/28CTw Jones: shorturl.at/wOga0 and shorturl.at/j43ry Walker: shorturl.at/OtMKq and shorturl.at/eqZlX #horrorNU

❤️🔥📕⚡🧠 Strange worlds, sharp minds, Issue 19 is now live. Delve into the fantastic: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55643 utampapress.org/product/stud...

The recording of Damien Pollard’s Horror Studies Research Group talk “Dubbing, Ducks and Death: The Voice in Giallo Cinema” is now available via our YouTube channel here: youtu.be/fTU29j4JZkg #horrorNU

Reminder: Horror Studies Talk - Dr Damien Pollard (Northumbria) "Dubbing, Ducks and Death: The Voice in Giallo Cinema" Thursday 13th November, 4-5pm For details (including abstract and Teams link), click here: tinyurl.com/e4p9dau7 #horrorNU

Horror Studies Talk - Dr Damien Pollard (Northumbria) "Dubbing, Ducks and Death: The Voice in Giallo Cinema" Thursday 13th November, 4-5pm For details (including abstract and Teams link), click here: tinyurl.com/e4p9dau7 #horrorNU

Reminder - Call for papers: HORROR STUDIES NOW, May 28/29 2026, Northumbria University t.co/QK7DDTdeNb

Her project, “The Anthropocene Unconscious of Jerry London’s Killdozer (1974)”, offers a fascinating environmental lens on the classic monster flick. Read more: utampapress.org/the-anthropo... #HorrorStudies #EnvironmentalHorror #AcademicResearch #StudiesInTheFantastic

Our first featured author is Sophie Dungan, runner-up for the Peter Hutchings Award for Outstanding Contribution to Horror Studies at the Horror Studies Now conference.

📢 New on the Studies in the Fantastic blog! ✨📚🌙🌀🔮💫📖 We’re thrilled to launch our new blog series—created in partnership with the Horror Studies Research Group at Northumbria University—spotlighting fresh and innovative research in horror studies. @horrorstudies.bsky.social

Several of us will be at Grindfest, introducing various films - see you there! #horrorNU

Check out this podcast featuring our own Johnny Walker and @kte75.bsky.social Pivotal: Fear - open.spotify.com/episode/1rfA... #horrorNU

Call for papers: HORROR STUDIES NOW, May 28/29 2026, Northumbria University tinyurl.com/2w2fuch6 #horrorNU

✍️📈✨"Survival and Recovery: Addiction and the Therapeutic Potential of Horror Writing" by Alex Herod. Thrilled to feature this piece in our latest Issue 18!

Not long now.. #35mm #filmonfilm @filmhubsw.bsky.social @vinsyn.bsky.social @horrorstudies.bsky.social @northumbriauni.bsky.social

BIG filmic thumbs up to @bournemouthecho.bsky.social, @filmhubsw.bsky.social, @abertoirfest.bsky.social, @horrorstudies.bsky.social #vinegarsyndrome and of course the beautiful art deco Regent for your much valued support in making GRINDFEST an ongoing key event in the film festival calendar!

Only one day left to support the crowdfunding campaign for Slasher Trash, a documentary focusing on obscure, low-budget slasher films Check it out: slashertrashdoc.com?sca_ref=9391... #horrorNU @80shorrordoc.bsky.social @slashertrash.bsky.social

The crowdfunding campaign for the documentary Slasher Trash closes on 14th August The documentary is going to focus on obscure, low-budget slasher films, so it is right up my street! Check it out: slashertrashdoc.com?sca_ref=9391... #horrorNU @80shorrordoc.bsky.social @slashertrash.bsky.social

My report from the (consecrated) ground at @horrorstudies.bsky.social annual Horror Studies Now conference back in May now out in The Dark Side (269)

Our annual conference, Horror Studies Now, is featured in this month's issue of Dark Side Magazine

Check out the new website for Horror Studies @ Northumbria. ✨stay tuned for exciting announcements about our upcoming partnership!

We have a new website! horrorstudies.com #horrorNU

“I have to return some videotapes” We're thrilled to welcome back Northumbria University’s Horror Research Group to GRINDFEST! Joining the panel discussion will be, Prof Stacey Abbott, Dr Laura Mee, Dr Max Gee, Co-Director of Abertoir Horror Festival Nia Edwards-Behi, and chaired by Dr Kate Egan.

Chuffed to contribute a new essay to Eureka's new 4k release of this staggering film #horrorNU

NEW... @drstevejones.bsky.social a film scholar & a leading authority on extreme imagery & the intersections between horror and pornography, talks about his new book THE METAMODERN SLASHER FILM Apple Podcasts podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/3... Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/2fnN...

Publication day! Looking forward to the new I Know What You Did Last Summer or Scream VII? Then check out my new book The Postmodern Slasher Film (or order it for your library) 30% off with the code NEW30 at @edinburghup.bsky.social edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-pos... #horrorNU

Let @drstevejones.bsky.social convince you that the postmodern slasher--like the underseen CRY WOLF, RIPPER & LOVER'S LANE--isn't just a SCREAM clone. "The Postmodern Slasher Film" is new from @edinburghup.bsky.social. Aca-priced, so email your library! edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-pos...

Members of the Horror Studies Reasearch Group will be involved in Grindfest '25 - see you there! #horrorNU

Our own @drstevejones.bsky.social was interviewed for this article about zombies by @tomjbeasley.bsky.social uk.movies.yahoo.com/movies/28-da... #horrorNU

@jplaczkiewicz.bsky.social, our PhD student, recently attended the #horrorNU conference organized by @horrorstudies.bsky.social, Northumbria University. She explored new perspectives in contemporary rape-revenge cinema, focusing on the role of affect & the transformative portrayal of female avengers

Truly a wonderful event! Had so much fun meeting all the amazing scholars and hearing about the brilliant research. Thank you again to the Horror Studies Research Group at Northumbria!

Managed to salvage my (terrible, handwritten) notes from @horrorstudies.bsky.social 2025 so that I could make a Letterboxd to-watch list

Great few days. Take a drink every time they decided to put my strange mug in there, attempting to be somewhat near as intelligent as the rest of the actual clever people there. Also correct choice of the Bodies Bodies Bodies clip inclusion, well done guys. See you all next year for HSN PartVII 👻

I was never more tempted to change my field of research 🙈. Very cool research and looks like a great research community!

If you weren't able to join us for Horror Studies Now 2025, here is what you missed! #horrorNU youtu.be/vouip_wf8Ig?...

The Horror Studies Research Group at Horror Studies Now 2025 #horrorNU

First conference for a good while at @horrorstudies.bsky.social last week, and really enjoyed the quality of the papers, and I have to say, as a very fussy vegetarian it was the best conference food I’ve encountered. Inspired to research and write outside of my thesis constraints.

Congrats to everybody for their presentations at @horrorstudies.bsky.social My first time attending this one but certainly not the last! Loved being a part of it and always great to see the comradeship in the horror scholar community!

I was having such a great time at @horrorstudies.bsky.social Horror Studies Now 25 that I forgot to post about it. A fantastic event with the coolest people and so much exciting research. Big thanks to all involved. Loved it! #HorrorNU

Spolis from the easiest peer-review gig I've had: Q: "Should there be a new edition of Games of Terror?" A: " Yes please" Fantastic to see this classic finally back in print #horrorNU

An excellent turn from Ale @alessandrapino.bsky.social at this morning's session at @horrorstudies.bsky.social Ingestive/culinary horrors!

@alessandrapino.bsky.social - Hugely entertaining, insightful- and ngl - she made me green with envy when she casually talked about discussing raisin tarts...iykyn. Buy her book! You know you want to...brilliant session :) @horrorstudies.bsky.social

Fantastic first conference paper from Abigail Hilton 'The Ghosts of Queer Girlhood: South Korean Horror and Fractured Temporalities in Whispering Corridors (1998) and Memento Mori (1999)' @horrorstudies.bsky.social

@maxgee1284.bsky.social delivering an obscenely good keynote @horrorstudies.bsky.social - so much to think about! I loooooved the 'sentient or possessed' quiz too btw.

@alexherod.bsky.social collecting her very well deserved award at the Horror Studies Now conference :) So proud of you! @horrorstudies.bsky.social

Northumbria University's Horror Studies Research Group has hosted the Horror Studies Now conference. Interested in horror? Check out 'The Modern Horror film' reading list by searching the title at: northumbria.rl.talis.com/index.html #NorthumbriaLibrary #horrorNU @horrorstudies.bsky.social