Here is the 2025 winner of the Peter Hutchings Award for Outstanding Contribution to Horror Studies @katherineprentice.bsky.social, plus our honorable mention recipients @ami-n.bsky.social and David Martinez. Congratulations all (& to runner up Sophie Dungan!). Thanks @fantastic-journal.bsky.social!

Deadline for proposals - January 30th Call for papers: HORROR STUDIES NOW, May 28/29 2026, Northumbria University t.co/QK7DDTdeNb

Reminder - Call for papers: HORROR STUDIES NOW, May 28/29 2026, Northumbria University t.co/QK7DDTdeNb

Until 9am 1st Dec @edinburghup.bsky.social titles are half price! Abbott: shorturl.at/U4HDB Egan: shorturl.at/QobQl Hunter: shorturl.at/28CTw Jones: shorturl.at/wOga0 and shorturl.at/j43ry Walker: shorturl.at/OtMKq and shorturl.at/eqZlX #horrorNU

Reminder - Call for papers: HORROR STUDIES NOW, May 28/29 2026, Northumbria University t.co/QK7DDTdeNb

Our annual conference, Horror Studies Now, is featured in this month's issue of Dark Side Magazine

We have a new website! horrorstudies.com #horrorNU

The Horror Studies Research Group at Horror Studies Now 2025 #horrorNU

Huge congratulations to Alex Herod, winner of the Peter Hutchings Award for Outstanding Contribution to Horror Studies, on this publication in Studies of the Fantastic! We look forward to formally presenting the award to Alex at Horror Studies Now 2025 #horrorNU

Our own @profsaabbott.bsky.social presenting on our research group as part of an excellent roundtable at @scmstudies.bsky.social, alongside our Visiting Prof Adam Lowenstein, Kristopher Woofter, and Andrew Lynch #horrorNU

Reminder - CFP: Horror Studies Now 2025 (May 29th-30th) at Northumbria University Deadline 14th March Call and submissions info here: shorturl.at/XmTjU #horrorNU

Our own @profsaabbott.bsky.social presenting her inaugural lecture "'It's Alive!': Materiality, Excess and the Nightmare Visions of Horror Animation" #horrorNU

We are thrilled to welcome our new Visiting Professor Adam Lowenstein, who will be collaborating with us for the next 3 years! As well as being a renowned horror scholar, Professor Lowenstein is Director of University of Pittsburgh’s Horror Studies Working Group #horrorNU