We are delighted to share the winner of the 2025 SCMS Horror Studies SIG Grad Essay contest: Sarah Potvin! Sarah is a PhD student at Texas A&M University. Her winning essay is titled "The Encroaching Horror of Suburban Blandness: The Stepford Wives' Feminisms."

Today is the deadline to submit to our grad essay contest! Send us your essays! 👻 horrorsig.wixsite.com/mysite/gradu...

The deadline to submit to our grad student essay contest is this Friday, Feb. 21! We can't wait to read your works!

Reminder: The deadline to submit to our grad essay contest is February 21! We can't wait to read all the fabulous research our SIG's grad students are producing!

We are excited to announce that out annual grad student essay contest is now accepting submissions! The submission deadline is February 21! Please share with any/all scholars who might be interested! Here is the full CFP: horrorsig.wixsite.com/mysite/gradu...

SCMS folks: Reminder that our virtual symposium meeting is Friday, December 6, at 11:00 AM Central Time! SCMS already sent out the Zoom links, so check your emails for those! We look forward to seeing you!

Greetings, horror scholars! We're on Bluesky now! 👻