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Popular Culture Review – Deadline Ongoing
Popular Culture Review welcomes compelling, well-argued, and well-researched articles on popular culture both past and present. We seek to publish research on traditional as well as on emerging forms of popular culture and encourage submissions on underrepresented areas within our field. We publish
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Preternature Journal – Deadline Ongoing
Preternature provides an interdisciplinary, inclusive forum for the study of topics that stand in the liminal space between the known world and the inexplicable. The journal embraces a broad and dynamic definition of the preternatural that encompasses the weird and uncanny—magic, witchcraft, spiritualism,
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SALEM MEETS THE NOIR 2026 – Deadline 1/16/2026
First Conference on Hispanic Noir in Literature, Television, and CinemaMay 19–21, 2026Salem State UniversitySalem, Massachusetts, USA Salem Meets the Noir 2026 is the first U.S. conference dedicated to Hispanic Noir across literature, TV, and film. This interdisciplinary conference aims to bring together scholars,
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EcoGothic Journeys – Deadline 12/19/2025
Since the early days of gothic writing in Europe, journeying has been at the heart of the genre. Ann Radcliffe’s heroines were transported to faraway castles and abbeys, while Melmoth wandered the earth an outcast and Victor Frankenstein travelled to the Arctic
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Vampires, Parasites, and Environmental Extraction: Gothic Figures of Resource Exploitation in the Long Nineteenth Century – Deadline 12/15/2025
The long nineteenth century was a period marked by industrial revolution, scattered religious beliefs and technological advancements. The Gothic tradition recorded these significant changes through a language of monstrosity, excess, and horror as the Industrial Revolution gained momentum, coal and steam power
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Horror Studies Now – Deadline 1/30/2026
The Horror Studies Research Group at Northumbria University invites researchers working in the multidisciplinary field of “Horror Studies” to submit abstracts about their research for the 2026 edition of the major, in-person, annual conference, Horror Studies Now, taking place on 28-29 May
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Peter Straub: New Critical Perspectives – Deadline 11/30/2025
In his introduction to John C. Tibbetts’s The Gothic Worlds of Peter Straub (2016)—the only academic, book-length study of Straub’s fiction currently in print—Gary K. Wolfe argues that “[p]erhaps more than any author of his generation—Stephen King included—Straub extended the literary possibilities of horror
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Romancing the Gothic 2026 Talk Series – Deadline 12/20/2026
In 2026, Romancing the Gothic’s annual conference will be celebrating the 200th anniversary of Ann Radcliffe’s final, posthumous, publications. An early Gothic writer, Radcliffe was known to some as the ‘Great Enchantress’, to others as the ‘Shakespeare of Romance writers’. She was
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IGA Conference: Gothic Selves/Artificial Others – Deadline 1/30/2026
July 28-30, 2026. University of Hull, Hull, UK.Abstract deadline: January 30, 2026. Once speculative, artificial intelligence now haunts contemporary society, with public discourse around its application and scope ranging from the utopian to the apocalyptic. The Gothic’s fascination with doubles, simulacra, uncanny
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The Everyday Horror of American Life: The Rhetorical Vision of Stephen King – Deadline 1/1/2026
Stephen King is one of America’s most prolific authors, with 65 novels, 12 collections, and numerous other writings from non-fiction to screen plays; he is master of the short story, the horror novel, and the epic fantasy. While literary critics have debated