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SSAG Co-Sponsored Conference: Geographies of Horror – Deadline 10/1/2026
Department of English Studies (University of Zadar) in collaboration with The Society for the Study of the American Gothic (SSAG)Keynote speaker: Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock (Central Michigan University)May 20-21st 2027, University of Zadar (Zadar, Croatia) The study of horror has always been inseparable
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Theory and Practice in Horror Transmedia Fandom and Creation – Deadline 7/17/26
Editors Jason DeHart, University of Tennessee Knoxville, United States Call for Chapters Proposals Submission Deadline: July 17, 2026Full Chapters Due: October 30, 2026Submission Date: October 30, 2026 Introduction This edited collection features scholarly voices with attention to horror in its transmedia representations,
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The Legacy of Norman Bates: Essays on the Psycho Franchise – Deadline 9/1/26
Call for Papers: The Legacy of Norman Bates: Essays on the Psycho Franchise Editor: Shane H Weathers, Bowling Green State University Editors Introduction: While John Carpenter’s Halloween catapulted the slasher subgenre to the front of popular culture, Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho provided its blueprint. With a marketing campaign that
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Into the Fog: Essays on Dead by Daylight – Deadline 7/30/2026
Call for Chapters: Dead by Daylight (DBD) is an asymmetric four versus one online horror game where a team of survivors must work together to escape from a brutal killer, developed and published by Behavior Interactive. From its debut in 2016 the
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Disability and Horror: A Companion – Deadline 7/31/26
Disability and Horror: A Companion Call for Chapters In Disability, Literature, Genre (2019), Ria Cheyne highlights that “both horror scholars and disability scholars have been reluctant to engage with disability in horror”, pointing to “the shared frequency with which problematic images of disability have
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Metafictional Horror Cinema: The Screen as Mirror – Deadline 5/8/26
We invite chapter proposals for an edited collection titled Metafictional Horror Cinema: The Screen as Mirror, to be submitted to the UWP Horror Studies series. The volume explores how horror cinema reflects on its own formal strategies, lays bare its narrative and technological
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The Witch and Activism – Deadline 5/22/26
The figure of the witch (both real and imagined) is inherently political and potentially contentious. Each wave of feminism has reflected on shifting considerations of the witch as evocative of issues around gender, power and, more recently, intersectional aspects of identity. More recent critical engagement with witches and witchcraft reflects a
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Journal of Dracula Studies – Deadline 6/1/2026
The Journal of Dracula Studies is open for submissions for its upcoming 2026 issue. We invite manuscripts of scholarly articles (4000-6000 words) on any of the following: Bram Stoker, the novel Dracula, the historical Dracula, the vampire in literature including folklore, fiction,
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JFA Presents: The Ruthven Literary Bulletin – Deadline 6/6/2026
Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts Presents: The Ruthven Literary Bulletin – FOCUSED ISSUE CALL FOR PAPERS Issue Editor: Elizabeth Schechter In preparation of the relaunch the Ruthven Literary Bulletin. the Lord Ruthven Assembly welcomes papers that explore and expound on the appearance and
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Contemporary Indigenous Horror – Creative Fiction – Deadline 07/14/2026
Contemporary Indigenous Horror (University Press of Mississippi, 2027) solicits original, unpublished short horror fiction, poetry, and experimental works by self-identifying Indigenous creatives. No AI work will be accepted.As a companion to analysis in Contemporary Indigenous Horror (contracted with University Press of Mississippi), we are looking for creative