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Horror Lex® (https://horrorlex.com) is the home of academic horror. Explore our huge research database of scholarly, thoughtful writings on horror films. #horror
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"Tell, Don't Show." Larissa Barbosa Curi talks about the power of Quint's USS Indianapolis monologue, Heather's "I want to apologize" testimonial, and other "verbal accounts" in what's otherwise a very visual medium: the horror film. #openaccess at Int'l J Film & Media Arts
doi.org/10.24140/ijf...
On the left, a screenshot of the article "Tell, Don't Show: Form, Function and Affect of Verbal Account Scenes in Anglophone Horror Films and Thrillers," in plain text. On the right, the famous still from THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT in which Heather turns the camera on her own face in the dark, as she cries and gives a long speech about how sorry she is.
January 16, 2026 at 1:30 PM
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We know you’ve been waiting for #NightTideMag’s Monthly Macabre: Pre-Code Horror since December BUT, it’s dropping mañana! To get your gears turning, January’s theme is: OBSESSION/FIXATION HORROR! Deadline to pitches is Jan 23rd at NightTideMag.com/pitch 👻 📽️
January 15, 2026 at 1:51 PM
horrorlex.bsky.social
Mickey Mouse, nooooo! Thomas Caffrey examines certain recent abominations of public-domain kiddie characters with 1996's PINOCCHIO'S REVENGE to see if there can be such a thing as meaningful kindertrauma. New in Children's Lit in Education @springer.springernature.com
doi.org/10.1007/s105...
On the left, a screenshot of the article "Toward a Transformational Adaptation in Horror Adaptations of Public Domain Children's Literature: Kevin S. Tenney's 'Pinocchio's Revenge' as a Framework" in plain text. On the right, an image from the film PINOCCHIO'S REVENGE in which the children's literature character appears as a scary, wooden attacker wielding a knife.
January 15, 2026 at 1:43 PM
horrorlex.bsky.social
Start your new year by getting some science dropped on you, BOOM. @elizacosta24.bsky.social & @davidsears.bsky.social look at the cognitive basis for the jump-scare reaction, using *THAT* scene from THE DESCENT. Their new report is #openaccess from #FrontiersinPsychology.
doi.org/10.3389/fpsy...
On the left, a screenshot of the article "(Re)Considering the jump scare in four elements" in plain text. On the right, a famous jump-scare image from 2005's THE DESCENT, filmed in blue-tinted night vision, in which a pale humanoid creature looms behind an unaware woman in a cave.
January 14, 2026 at 1:45 PM
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Patrick & Elaine: Two narcissistic murderers, favored by their cities. Aleksandra Noińska's new essay revisits the killers of AMERICAN PSYCHO & THE LOVE WITCH along with their "symbiotic relationships" with their urban environments. #openaccess #NewHorizonsinEnglishStudies
dx.doi.org/10.17951/nh....
On the left, a screenshot of the article "The Symbiotic Relationship Between the Murderer and the City, a Silent Accomplice in Crime, in The Love Witch and American Psycho" in plain text. On the right, an image from the film THE LOVE WITCH (2016) showing the main character, a beautiful young woman with long brown hair, just after she's stabbed someone with a knife she's still holding. She's looking at the camera plaintively.
January 13, 2026 at 7:15 PM
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New Monstrum slipped in just before 2025 ended! Essays on "vegan & animal welfare horror": cannibals, plant-witches, the King of the Ants & scared little rabbits in HOUSE OF 1000 CORPSES. @mikethorn.bsky.social @fredbarrett.bsky.social and others #openaccess
www.monstrum-society.ca/monstrum-v8-...
On the left, the cover of Monstrum issue. 8.2, consisting of a black and white drawing of a large city being enveloped by vegetation. On the right, an image from THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE in which a blonde woman is tied to a chair at a dinner table, a plate of food in front of her, as she screams and struggles.
January 13, 2026 at 1:20 PM
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holyterrors.bsky.social
Have you heard the good news? The Holy Terrors podcast is launching THIS WEEK! with a special trailer and an introductory episode. Holy Terrors is all about looking at horror through the lens of faith, religion, and spirituality. Holy Terrors—where faith meets fear.
Play on the Exorcist with a man in bed with his head turned backward and a worried looking priest standing at the foot of the bed.
January 13, 2026 at 1:08 AM
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thehorrorchick.bsky.social
Hey y’all - today I’m celebrating the 60th anniversary of DRACULA: PRINCE OF DARKNESS here in the US. It was my first Hammer & it’s my favorite Hammer.

Shares and/or subs are greatly appreciated- cheers!

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Eternal Night: Dracula: Prince of Darkness at 60
Exploring horror, film, and pop culture, all while celebrating the creators, history, and artistry that keep the genre alive.
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January 12, 2026 at 6:17 PM
horrorlex.bsky.social
The legacy of slavery reaches all the way thru our hair extensions. Stephanie Arulthasan's award-winning essay about American nightmares in Black horror, feat. GET OUT, ANTEBELLUM & BAD HAIR is now on @jstor.bsky.social. Australasian J Am Studies @anzasa.bsky.social
www.jstor.org/stable/48844...
On the left, a screenshot of the article "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness: The American Nightmare in Contemporary Black Horror Cinema" in plain text. On the right, an image from the film BAD HAIR (2020) in which a Black woman with long, tangled hair extensions touches her hair in fear.
January 12, 2026 at 5:42 PM
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Ninety years on, it's still our duty to punch a Nazi (and a Nazi zombie). Martin Nicholas's new book collects all the onscreen monsters of the SS from 1933 to today. "Nazi Villains in Horror Movies" is new from #BearManorMedia.
www.bearmanormedia.com/products/s?_...
The cover of the book "Nazi Villains in Horror Movies" featuring a large image of a monstrous, Frankenstein-looking Hitler character from LISZTOMANIA (1975) and a smaller portrait of Peter Cushing from the Nazi-zombie film SHOCK WAVES (1977).
January 12, 2026 at 2:38 PM
horrorlex.bsky.social
Put on your dark glasses, and release the ravens! "Critical Perspectives on Dario Argento" is here with new views on Il Maestro and his ouvre of gialli & Italian excess. Thanks for this gift, Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns + friends! @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social
www.bloomsbury.com/us/critical-...
The cover of the book "Critical Perspectives on Dario Argento" featuring a watercolor reminiscent of the scene in SUSPIRIA where a woman walks down a red hallway with arched doors. A portrait photo of Dario Argento around age 50, wearing a suit with a bow tie and putting his finger to his cheek as if thinking very intently.
January 9, 2026 at 1:46 PM
horrorlex.bsky.social
Pan-American freaks, unite! Antonio Barrenechea's new "Studies in Groovy Gothic Cinema" takes a trip thru "Mexican monster films, Brazilian psychedelia, Argentine sci-fi, Canadian splatter, and Hollywood grindhouse" of the '60s-'70s. @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social
www.bloomsbury.com/us/studies-i...
The cover of the book "Studies in Groovy Gothic Cinema: Trash, Horror, and the Hemispheric Sixties," in black with an image of a woman's hand holding a red rose.
January 8, 2026 at 1:36 PM
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Chelsea N. Bouldin moons over the shape-shifting, race-swapping Ruby Baptiste (who doesn't??) and the "dark fantastic" of LOVECRAFT COUNTRY in a new essay for Sci Fi Film & TV. Pub and #openaccess links below. @livunipress.bsky.social
collections.lib.utah.edu/details?id=2...
doi.org/10.3828/sfft...
On the left, a screenshot of the essay "Speculative destabilization: Ruby Baptiste and the Dark Fantastic" in plain text. On the right, an image of character Ruby Baptiste (a 40-ish Black woman dressed in 1950s style) from the 2020 TV series LOVECRAFT COUNTRY.
January 7, 2026 at 1:38 PM
horrorlex.bsky.social
If "The Horror Theory Reader" is half as influential as its 2020 "Monster" version, this is a new textbook to snap up. @cypheractive.bsky.social & pals present chapters on why we watch and read horror, and what horror means to us. New from @uminnpress.bsky.social
www.upress.umn.edu/978151791782...
The cover of the book "The Horror Theory Reader" with the title in a large, gothic font against a background of a red-toned, creepy hallway.
January 6, 2026 at 1:33 PM
horrorlex.bsky.social
New year, new books from @mcfarland.bsky.social. "Frightful Harvest" tastes the blood 'n' guts in folk horror while "Serial Killer Fiction" highlights literary stalkers, from THE LODGER to THE SNOWMAN. #KeeneShort #DavidGeherin
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On the left, the cover of the book "Frightful Harvest Food, Agriculture and Landscape in Folk Horror Films," bright red with an image of a dinner plate with dried plants and a severed finger dripping blood. On the right, the cover of the book "Serial Killer Fiction: A Study of 42 Novels and 22 Movie Adaptations," in black with an image of a shadowy man standing at the top of basement stairs with a knife in his hand.
January 5, 2026 at 1:37 PM
horrorlex.bsky.social
Whaaaa ... what year is it? 2026? HAPPY NEW YEAR, FRIENDS! The wolf needs to stop sleeping in and eating cookies all day and get back to posting about y'all's horror film writing. Stay tuned!
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January 4, 2026 at 3:14 PM
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sohohorrorfest.bsky.social
SoHoHoHoooooooo!!! We're back for some festive-al frights, details below 🎅🎄
December 22, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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The latest @intransition.bsky.social is really feeling itself with text/video essays on embodiment on film. Steven Sehman hears bodies in HEREDITARY, THE WITCH & UNDER THE SKIN, and Javier Gerardo Ramirez sees monstrous forms in CANDYMAN '21 & LA LLORONA.
intransition.openlibhums.org/issue/1309/i...
On the left, a screenshot from the latest issue of [in]Transition journal online, entitled Special Issue: Cinematic Bodies/Videographic Forms. On the right, an image from the 2019 film LA LLORONA in which a dark-haired woman floats in water, with the camera looking up at her face and long hair, spread out.
December 22, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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"... for me waits destruction by the two-edged sword." "Graeco-Roman Horror & its Modern Reception" finds horror in myth and myth in horror, incl. in SCREAM 2 and HAUNTING OF BLY MANOR. Now out from @routledgebooks.bsky.social
www.routledge.com/Graeco-Roman...
On the left, the cover of the book "Graeco-Roman Horror and its Modern Reception: Unleashing Classical Dread," with a gold wallpaper-looking background print and regular block text. On the right, a still from the 1997 film SCREAM 2 in which Sidney Prescott, playing Greek heroine Cassandra in a college play, raises up her arms in a defiant pose.
December 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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angelawright1794.bsky.social
Delighted to report on another Cambridge Element, just published, and on OA for next two weeks. The wonderful Coastal Gothic by @jfpackham.bsky.social comes with an introductory video by the author too!
@dalegothic96.bsky.social
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Coastal Gothic, 1719–2020
Cambridge Core - English Literature 1700-1830 - Coastal Gothic, 1719–2020
www.cambridge.org
December 17, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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"I love Mr. Flint's hole. It’s rather fascinating.” @avadevries.bsky.social checks out the bisexual vamps and uptight Brits in the wackadoo folk horror flick THE LAIR OF THE WHITE WORM, @horrorhomeroom.bsky.social.
www.horrorhomeroom.com/snakes-and-s...
Snakes and Strap-Ons: Queer Subtext in Ken Russell’s Lair of the White Worm - Horror Movie - Horror Homeroom
Snakes and Strap-Ons: Queer Subtext in Ken Russell’s Lair of the White Worm on Horror Homeroom
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December 15, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Wait 30 minutes after eating, and mind that alligator. "S(p)lasher Flicks: The Swimming Pool in Horror Cinema" collects 100+ films that take a dive into the deep end like TERRORVISION, TASTE OF FEAR & JENNIFER'S BODY. @cullenwade.bsky.social @mcfarland.bsky.social
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The cover of the book "S(p)lasher Flicks: The Swimming Pool in Horror Cinema" featuring a large image from the 2009 film JENNIFER'S BODY in which the possessed teenager Jennifer, dressed in a bloodied and water-drenched prom dress, floats on top of the water in an indoor swimming pool.
December 11, 2025 at 1:53 PM
horrorlex.bsky.social
Older, sleazier, witchier. "Comebacks" celebrates aging stars like the BABY JANE duo, the terror of Alida Valli (SUSPIRIA), and Carole Baker slumming it in Italian erotic thrillers. New #WayneStateUP #GloriaMonti #MartinShingler @darklonelywater.bsky.social
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The cover of the book "Comebacks: The Return of the Aging Film Star" featuring an image from the film WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE? In which Joan Crawford and Bette Davis appear as their heavily made-up, late-middle-aged characters, looking desperately out a window at something unseen.
December 10, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Black and white, vampire and human, each eating the other ... @tonyeatspuppies.bsky.social's new article "Mouths & Mirrors in Ryan Coogler's Sinners" is new from @filmquarterly.bsky.social . Publisher and free versions here:
doi.org/10.1525/fq.2...
www.academia.edu/145315050/MO...
A screenshot of the article "Mouths & Mirrors in Ryan Coogler's Sinners" featuring an image from the film. Sammie, a young black man, is dressed in 1920s garb, strumming a banjo, and singing with great feeling. A happy juke joint party is seen behind him.
December 9, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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The Creature thought he'd suffered slashes and cuts, but then he met the Hayes Code. Fran Pheasant-Kelly breaks down the '30s era censorship of FRANKENSTEIN and BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN in a new #openaccess essay at Historical J Film Radio & TV @iamhist.bsky.social.
doi.org/10.1080/0143...
On the left, a screenshot of the article "Cuts and Controversy in Pre-Code Hollywood Horror: The Case of James Whale's Frankenstein and The Bride of Frankenstein" in plain text. On the right, an image from BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1935) in which the Bride is bandaged head to toe (exaggerating her female form) and resting on a vertical slab, with Dr. Frankenstein and his assistant observing her.
December 8, 2025 at 2:31 PM