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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]