Knitting a Gothic Fan Culture
During a conversation last week with an American exchange student taking my horror film module, he asked how I had ended up with horror cinema as my research specialism. It’s not a very complex...
View ArticleThe Wandering Void: On Lovecraft and the independent horror film
H.P. Lovecraft opens his essay ‘Notes on Writing Weird Fiction’ with the following declaration: My reason for writing stories is to give myself the satisfaction of visualizing more clearly and...
View ArticleLorna Jowett and Stacey Abbott, ‘TV Horror’ (2013), reviewed by Xavier Aldana...
Lorna Jowett and Stacey Abbott, TV Horror: Investigating the Dark Side of the Small Screen (London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2013) Catherine Johnson, in her seminal Telefantasy (2005), argued that...
View ArticleOn Posthuman Horror and Other Cinematic Pursuits. Mark Robins, from...
‘I’m making science-fiction horror films because it strikes me that our experience of the world in our everyday lives is pretty much a technological, science-fictional one. And when you add the human...
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