Know well the condition of your flocks … Georgia Walton & @dominicokey.bsky.social look at "multispecies motherhood and humanimal horror" in LAMB and BIRTH/REBIRTH in this unique medico-horror paper. #openaccess #MedicalHumanities @bmj.com doi.org/10.1136/medh...

Olivia Zolciak makes the case that contemporary survivors like Cassie in PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN (2020) are allowed to be "more flawed and nuanced characters." Read her essay "Rhetorics of Rage" #openaccess at J Pop Culture. @pcaaca.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/jpcu...

Film International's front page has genre goodies: Gary D. Rhodes looks back to the blockbusting opening weekend for JAWS (1975) + David Ryan finds telltale signs of cultural pathology in the messed-up community of WEAPONS (2025). filmint.nu

"She hate me!" @shanedenson.bsky.social's new monograph on BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN is the first in @leverpress.bsky.social's film/minutes series, giving you a minute-by-minute look at the film and its context. liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

@fuscowrites.bsky.social manages to find one more face in the Man of 1,000 Faces. In her new book, "Hollywood's Others: Love and Limitation in the Star System," she explores public personas of Lon Chaney and other early Hollywood stars. @columbiaup.bsky.social cup.columbia.edu/book/hollywo...

Support independent, ethical, and super gay publishing! "Queer Horror: Fun & Freaky Perspectives on Macabre Media," celebrating "THE THING to vampire porn," can be yours for just small $$. Gina Brandolino @displacedsnail.bsky.social @microcosm.bsky.social microcosmpublishing.com/catalog/book...

True ghost story style, or marketing gimmick? Julian Singleton looks at the making and unmaking of the J-horror label in a new essay for @nighttidemag.bsky.social. nighttidemag.com/2025/09/03/m...

"The saw is family." Read Nick Clark's new essay "The Haunted America of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2," about why this unhinged sequel is as "righteous roar of fury at the continued rot of the American soul" as the original. Bright Lights Film J #openaccess brightlightsfilm.com/the-saw-is-f...

If we're in a new Golden Age of horror, @clarkcollis.bsky.social ‬ has it covered. "Screaming and Conjuring: The Resurrection & Unstoppable Rise of the Modern Horror Movie" is new from @1984prods.bsky.social and out in a limited edition. www.1984publishing.com/bookstore/sc...

Are the Jaegers just a CGI spectacle or deeply symbolic -- even "mythological"? Shane Kyle and Will Linn have an opinion in a new paper, "Archetypal Patterns of Pacific Rim." New from J Asia-Pacific Pop Culture and @projectmuse.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/2/articl...

For some of us, it's *never* been safe to go back in the water. In time for the film's 50th anniversary, Matt Taylor has a new edition of "Jaws: Memories from Martha's Vineyard," now with new photos, interviews & on-set insights. @titanbooks.bsky.social titanbooks.com/72153-jaws-m...

"I'll make any man or thing else vanish I like." Undergrad literary magazine Arden and author Brande George tells us a story about "Witchcraft as Liberation: A Feminist Reading of The Witch." #openaccess csuepress.columbusstate.edu/arden/25/

Bloodsuckers, sure. But why do they have to be so Black, gay, and Muslim? Rhiannon Bury dares to dive into a subreddit--brave lady--to gauge "Fan Reaction to AMC's Interview with the Vampire." New and #openaccess in the latest M/C Journal. doi.org/10.5204/mcj....

“You sick f–ks. You’ve seen one too many movies!” @ashleycullins.bsky.social's new book brings you into the SCREAM universe both in and behind the scenes. Get "Your Favorite Scary Movie: How the Scream Films Rewrote the Rules of Horror" from Plume Books. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/737469...

Lions & tigers & bears (and orcas & crocs & whatever that thing in ERASERHEAD is), oh my! "Animality & Horror Cinema: Creaturely Fear on Film" brings a zoo's worth of essays about fear of fauna. #PalgraveMacmillan Eds. Peter Sands Mo O'Neill @samjhind.bsky.social link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

It's a blood red-letter day! Vera Dika's early, studious, practically geometric breakdown of the slasher film, from the stalkers to the survivors, is updated and lookin' good. One to buy. @uniwalespress.bsky.social @danieljsheppard.bsky.social ‬ @wick85c.bsky.social www.uwp.co.uk/book/games-o...

"It began as a prank...and ended in murder." Lovers of the FEAR STREET trilogy know it plays slasher tropes like a violin. Marina S. Jorge & Ana Karolina da Silva's new essay breaks down the '70s, '90s, and historical genre mashup. #openaccess @comparativecinema.bsky.social doi.org/10.31009/cc....

Fear the fungus! "Microbiology and Horror Cinema" by Larrie Dudenhoeffer's looks how the small things--viruses, bacteria, parasites--can invoke the big bad in THE EXORCIST, ANNABELLE, MANIAC, CRAWL, and Argento's Three Mothers films. #PalgraveMacmillan link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

If you've spent quality time in cyberspace with the Blair Witch or Frank the Bunny, Kim Walden's new book about horror film experiential websites is for you. "A Transmedia Archaeology of Film Promotion Online" @amsterdamupress.bsky.social. Aca-priced, so nudge a librarian. www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...

Get your hands on a rare reprint: @fabpress.bsky.social & John Hamilton have re-released 100 special-edition copies of "Beasts in the Cellar: The Exploitation Film Career of Tony Tenser" to celebrate the producer of THE BLOOD ON SATAN'S CLAW, FRIGHTMARE, and more. www.fabpress.com/beasts-in-th...

What happens when right-wing publications review ALIEN, THE SHINING, or THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT? Find out in Alex Pinelli's "Conservatism & the Cinematic Art of Horror," in the latest issue of Americana journal. #openaccess www.americanpopularculture.com/journal/arti...

The Count is back, with an eye for London's hotpants! "Unlocking Dracula A.D. 1972" is the latest from Hammer expert David Huckvale and @mcfarland.bsky.social. mcfarlandbooks.com/product/unlo...

Zoinks, the new Cinergie issue has got g-g-g-ghosts! Bruno Surace's piece "Between the Mediatic and the Mediumistic" looks at haunted new media in films like TRUTH OR DARE, COUNTDOWN, FRIEND REQUEST and CAM. #openaccess doi.org/10.60923/iss...

"When you were kids, what scared you?" Read Filipa Antunes's new essay for TV & New Media on The Duffer Brothers, demogorgons & authenticity-cum-nostalgia. "Building the Netflix Brand: Franchise Logic, Authorship & Distinction in the Promotion of Stranger Things." #openaccess doi.org/10.1177/1527...

📖 Most read in Science Fiction Film & Television this week: 'The societies of destruction' by Zea Miller Find it on the LUP website: bit.ly/Miller-SFFTV @baftss-sff-sig.bsky.social @gerrycanavan.bsky.social @baftss-sff-sig.bsky.social @horrorlex.bsky.social

Two new paperbacks from @edinburghup.bsky.social for lovers of Euro-sexploitation and the queer gothic. And isn't that just about all of us? Anna Batori / Ardel Haefele-Thomas edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-ext... edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-queer-g...

Monstrum 8.1 is bursting with essays on femme folk horror, Black slasher besties, Butch Latinas in sci fi, and an award-winning take on THE STEPFORD WIVES! #openaccess. Eds. Nina K Martin / Kris Woofter with @dawnkeetley.bsky.social and friends. www.monstrum-society.ca/monstrum-v8-...

Mark T. Kettler compares "Dracula," NOSFERATU '22 & NOSFERATU '24 and explains how Robert Eggers' mournful, lonely version urges us "to call evil by its name." Read "A Death of Despair in Wisborg" in the latest issue of @sensesofcinema.bsky.social. #openaccess www.sensesofcinema.com/2025/feature...

The latest @gothicstudies.bsky.social is dedicated to the late Justin D. Edwards and #openaccess. Enjoy essays on his scholarly contributions via SICILIAN GHOST STORY, POULTRYGEIST, music & lit. Eds J. Höglund, R. Graulund, R. Duncan + @monicagermana.bsky.social www.euppublishing.com/toc/gothic/2...

I dunno, what d'YOU wanna watch? Sotiris Petridis & contributors think about how we consume horror media--from DRAGULA to Junji Itō adaptations to THE HAUNTING OF BLY MANOR--in the age of endless Netflix scrolling. "Streaming Horrors" @mcfarland.bsky.social mcfarlandbooks.com/product/stre...

Bothered by necromorphs? "CUT OFF THEIR LIMBS..." Paweł Baran finds a decidedly cinematic obsession with body horror in the undead/creature games "Resident Evil 4" & "Dead Space." In the latest issue of Zagadnienia Rodzajów Literackich. In English and #openaccess. doi.org/10.26485/ZRL...

After escaping Leatherface, what the hell was Renee Zellwegger doing in the back of that limo? Adam Pasen has a theory about TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE: THE NEXT GENERATION, the Illuminati & a famous book on myth. Read his new essay @horrorhomeroom.bsky.social www.horrorhomeroom.com/texas-chains...

"This theater is now a quiet zone..." Carlo Cenciarelli remembers when A QUIET PLACE II landed softly in the COVID-19 era and suggested a new way of watching the silver screen. Read his new essay #openaccess from Music Sound & the Moving Image + @projectmuse.bsky.social. muse.jhu.edu/article/964621

"Atomic tuna, radioactive fallout, and now this Godzilla to top it off!" Rick Wallach's new book takes us back to kaiju basics with GOJIRA '54 and "ancient Japanese myth, Buddhism, Shinto, and the trauma of war" beyond the nuclear metaphor. @mcfarland.bsky.social ‬ mcfarlandbooks.com/product/in-s...

"After you've taken everything, what will be left?" ‪ katewoodward.bsky.social examines THE FEAST and BAIT, two films of "rural-urban" folk horror from the Celtic margins. Download her chapter in "Rural Imaginations for a Globalized World," new and #openaccess from #Brill. doi.org/10.1163/9789...

George Romero's DAY OF THE DEAD turns 40 years old this week. Let John Marmysz take you back to the trilogy's end, when men were passive, women were active, but everybody was their own kind of nihilist. His insightful 1996 film-philosophy essay is free to read! www.academia.edu/207033/From_...

There's aren't too many people I would trust to create "The Definitive Guide to Horror Movies," but @annodracula.bsky.social and James Marriott (R.I.P.) are two. Get this updated volume on 383 key fright flicks from Thunder Bay Press #Simon&Schuster. www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-De...

It's coming from inside the house! @momoshaty.bsky.social advocates for WHEN A STRANGER CALLS and its sequel as slasher grande dames. New at @nighttidemag.bsky.social nighttidemag.com/2025/07/07/m...

"I don't know what's more difficult...being colored or being a woman." Jacqueline Pinkowitz's new essay in Black Camera looks at how Black Gothic + Black bodies in LOVECRAFT COUNTRY "interrogates the embodied, physical horrors of race & enslavement." @projectmuse.bsky.social doi.org/10.2979/blc....

Esta casa está embrujada … "The Nightmares of Presence: Space and Place in Spanish Gothic & Horror Film" by @anndavies.bsky.social is now out in print from @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social. www.bloomsbury.com/us/nightmare...

Dirty cops and worse witches . . . Yannis Mitsou looks at the pathetic state of law enforcement and the ecstatic state of dance in Luca Guadagnino's SUSPIRIA (2018). #OpenAccess in the latest #JumpCut. ejumpcut.org/currentissue...

" … because you were home." Ryan Izay's new book collects THE STRANGERS, THE PURGE & the other films that keep you up at night, wondering who might be under your bed or in your walls. "Home Invasion Horrors" is now out from @mcfarland.bsky.social. mcfarlandbooks.com/product/home...

Two films. One message: The world wants women to disappear. Disordered eating isn’t just overlooked, it’s expected. @toriiellen.bsky.social dives into Swallow (2019) and The Ugly Stepsister (2025) for #NightTideMag! 👻📽️ nighttidemag.com/2025/07/07/s...

"Deindustrial Nightmares: Detroit Horror Films & Ruin Porn" trudges thru the broken windows and peeling paint of the Motor City in BARBARIAN, IT FOLLOWS, and DON'T BREATHE. New and #openaccess from J Pop Culture & author Mitch Ploskonka. doi.org/10.1111/jpcu...

I swear, half of Horror Lex's job at this point is keeping the database free of fake writing, bad translations, and other junk from predatory "international" journals. Exorcising you from AI since 2021!

The mid-year update is in! Spankin' new scholarship is there along with new search tags like "Coralie Fargeat" & "neurodiversity." And welcome to new (to us) journals [in]Transition, Giornale di Filosofia, Intarsia @kaijuunited.bsky.social Mediaopolis & @spinstersofhorror.bsky.social! horrorlex.com

Horror Lex is hiring! In search of a part-time, paid clerical assistant to help us maintain the database. Love horror films? Got mad search skills? Obsessive about punctuation? We love that. Details on the blog: horrorlex.com/blog/horror-...

Check out this incredibly interesting essay by Emily Naser-Hall on Cristóbal León and Joaquin Cociña’s The Wolf House (2018), a stunning & weird film about violence and postcolonialism horrorhomeroom.com/what-is-your...

"Younger, more beautiful, more perfect." Henrieta Krupa gives MonstroElisasue the classic psychoanalytic treatment in her new essay for sinecine. "The Monstrous Feminine Re-Imagined: The Substance" is #openaccess. doi.org/10.32001/sin...

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...