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 […]
With the recent and highly acclaimed AMC adaptation of Interview with the Vampire and AMC’s broader acquisition of Anne Rice’s literary corpus, The Vampire Chronicles have found renewed cultural relevance. As Season 3 enters production, we invite reexaminations of the legacy and transformation of Rice’s vampiric […]
Following on from the success and international acclaim of Richard Eggers’ (2025) cinematic revisioning of Nosferatu, there has also been a great deal of consternation and uncertainty regarding this reframing of the classic original. Running through the online barrage of comments and […]
Dracula: A Companion is intended to both be an essential guide to interpreting Bram Stoker’s Dracula and a collection of new perspectives supporting a reshaping of the way the text is taught and engaged with by students. Fundamental to the approach of […]