Are you up on your recent Russian horrors? What if I promised a rabid bear? Rachel Stauffer reviews Dmitrii D’iachenko's nature-thriller BESHENSTVO in the latest issue of KinoKultura #openaccess . kinokultura.com/2024/84r-beshe…

Buffy, Melanie, Ofelia, Pearl, Maxine, Ginger, Sabrina and all our other mini-queens, this is your moment. Simon Bacon & contribs celebrate the 'Heroic Girls' of genre fiction, incl. TV/films from PAN'S LABYRINTH to REVENGE to FEAR STREET. @RoutledgeBooks
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Fresh facts & fresh writers on fave movies are in the new Film Criticism. Satan in tech in Murnau's FAUST, political zombies in Lenzi's NIGHTMARE CITY, & killer identity in Argento's DEEP RED. Amanda Shubert / Alberto Iozzia / Jim Carter Michigan Publishing
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Calling all sanguinarians: #BloodletterMagazine is out with issue #2. Some short sharp fiction, Kiera Johnson on how horror games can expiate national trauma, and Maxwell Van Cooper on 'The Haunting of Climate Change' in GAIA and THE FEAST. #openaccess
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Hey, where is my Dick Hallorann SHINING spinoff? And my CHOPPING MALL remake?! Jason Jenkins tells all in his new book 'Phantom Limbs: Dissecting Horror's Lost Sequels and Remakes,' now out from Encyclopocalypse Publications Jinx.
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I searched for a copy of Raymond Durgnat's well-known essay in Films & Filming from 1962, about PSYCHO and the horror genre in general, called 'From Pleasure Palace to Libido Motel.' This is the first result I got on Google. Who's up for a roadtrip?!!

'This is no dream, this is really happening!' Murray Leeder explores the oneiric horror cinema in the new 'Gothic Dreams & Nightmares.' Aca-priced, so tell your library. Ed. Carol Margaret Davison Manchester University Press
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After all, a demon's best friend is its mother. 'The Sinful Maternal: Motherhood in Possession Films,' regarding THE EXORCIST, INSIDIOUS, THE BABADOOK & more is new from Lauren Rocha and Univ Press of MS. $30 paperback/ebook! Lauren Rocha
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From the lands of bears, werewolves, and iron curtains ... ApparatusJournal has published its second of a 2-issue run on Soviet/post-Soviet film, incl. Ukranian & Belarusian horror like AMULET and MASAKRA. By Serhii Ksaverov / Alesha Serada, #openaccess .
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'Failure is fascinating.' Alison Peirse sits down with a a great lesser-seen horror film--and screenwriting dud?--FULL CIRCLE (a.k.a. THE HAUNTING OF JULIA) in the Spring 2024 issue of Screen Journal. #OpenAccess
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CFP: “RESEARCHING MEDIA AUDIENCES FROM THE MOVIE THEATRE TO THE DIGITAL AGE: METHODS, CHALLENGES, OPPORTUNITIES”. APRIL 29, 2024 @ LANCASTER UNIVERSITY (UK). DEADLINE: MARCH 29, 2024.

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Horror research: 'not so much a field, more of an erratically maintained lawn with some alarming topiary' How can we do horror research better? I have some thoughts: cc.au.dk/en/recreationa… cc Horror Lex® Wicked Horror Horror Seen PromoteHorror 🎃

Do characters threatened by folk horrors like THE VILLAGE exhibit responses of fight, flight, freeze, or--as JDC Burnhil suggests--fawn? A new way of looking at psychology and horror fiction in @HorrorHomeroom.
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Monsters abound in the latest issue of Australasian Journal of Popular Culture. Read Karen Macfarlane on how the undead lost their edge in TRUE BLOOD and IN THE FLESH, and Lauren Gilmore + Daniel Rosler on digi-zombies in CAM. @intellectbooks
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Just published in Gothic Studies, we've got @elizabethezra.bsky.social with an #openaccess tour of witches on early celluloid leading up to THE WIZARD OF OZ & Pauline Trotry on the seen/unseen ghosts of Mike Flanagan's two HAUNTING television series. International Gothic Association
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Sometimes our moral failings result in guilt; other times, a drowned girl crawling through our television screen. Michal J Burke's 'The Ethics of Horror' examines the symbolic business of ghosts as wronged Others, now out from Lexington Rowman & Littlefield.
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If 15 hours of documentary wasn't enough Reagan-era thrills for you (and it wasn't!) you can now own the coffee table book. 'In Search of Darkness: The Definitive Look at '80s Horror' by Heatherface Wixson & Patrick Bromley now shipping from AMInkPublishing.
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