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Horror Lex®@horrorlex· 14d

@mikemuncer.bsky.social's superstar podcast is now in book form and available stateside. "The Evolution of Horror" covers the tentpoles of slashers, ghosts, vampires, zombies, mind & body, occult folk, and cosmic horror flicks in a nice 'n' glossy package. www.headline.co.uk/titles/mike-...

The cover of the book "The Evolution of Horror: A Terrifying Guide to Horror Movie History" with a red and black stylized drawing showing various monsters walking along a path, in silhouette.

Horror Lex®@horrorlex· 15d

Two very different essays over #BrightLightsFilmJournal: Lee Russell Wilkes posits that SCHINDLER'S LIST is more exploitative than Nazispolitation, and Pooya Salehi writes about the horrors of love in TOGETHER (2025). #openaccess brightlightsfilm.com

On the left, a screenshot of the online article "When Platonic Love Turns Into Body Horror: Exploring Michael Shanks’s Together (2025)" with an image from the film TOGETHER in which two human bodies are fusing.

On the right, a screenshot of the online article "Anyone Miss Movies That Made People Vomit? Schindler's Watch List" with an image from the film SCHINDLER'S LIST showing two characters talking at a desk.

Horror Lex®@horrorlex· 18d

"People see you, they notice. … I'm a ghost." Will Jeffery writes about vaporwave and vapidity, spike heels and spectres in Nicholas Winding Refn's L.A. fable THE NEON DEMON (2016). Music, Sound & the Moving Image @projectmuse.bsky.social @livunipress.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/105/arti...

On the left, a screenshot of the article "The Spectre of Film Music: A Hauntological Study of the Vaporwave Aesthetic in The Neon Demon (2016)" in plain text.

On the right, an image from the film THE NEON DEMON in which a beautiful blonde woman with heavy new-wave-style makeup adjusts her hair in a mirror, blood dripping down her arm.

Horror Lex®@horrorlex· 19d

Farsi baladi? Max Bledstein's "Contemporary Iranian Horror Cinema" looks to the Persian provocateurs behind FISH & CAT, GIRL'S DOMITORY, and PARKWAY. Now out from @universitypress.cambridge.org www.cambridge.org/us/universit...

On the left, the cover of the book "Contemporary Iranian Horror Cinema" with a generic background photo of a night sky and a shadowy tree.

On the right, a poster for the Iranian film "Fish & Cat" showing a man (from behind) carrying a sack full of something bloody and dripping.

Horror Lex®@horrorlex· 21d

"You carry Hell with you at all times." The new Mise-en-scene issue has essays about the horror of police in Turkish nightmare BASKIN and Afrosurrealist capitalism in SORRY TO BOTHER YOU. #openaccess #KellyDoyle #JustinGonatas @kwantlenu.bsky.social journals.kpu.ca/index.php/ms...

On the left, the cover of issue 11.1 of Mise-en-Scene film journal showing an image from the Turkish horror film BASKIN in which hands of people trapped in a blue-tinged hell grasp the air.

On the right, another image from BASKIN showing one of the protagonists, a dark-haired man wearing a uniform and staring in paranoid fashion into a mirror, with the same blue tinge.

Horror Lex®@horrorlex· 22d

"I hate to admit this, but I don't understand this situation at all." Grab a damn fine cup of coffee and sit down with the new Supernatural Studies, all about TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN. Eds. @franckboulegue.bsky.social & Marisa C. Hayes #openaccess www.supernaturalstudies.com/previous-jou...

On the left, the cover of Supernatural Studies volume 11.2 featuring an image of a family sitting in their living room, bathed from the glow of the TV set, looking disturbed. The special issue is called "It Is In Our House Now": Twin Peaks The Return online conference.

On the right, an image from TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN in the infamous Red Room, where Laura Palmer stands over Agent Dale Cooper, kissing him.

Horror Lex®@horrorlex· 26d

Fans of classic horror, take note. "Strange Illusions: The Films of Edgar G. Ulmer" celebrates the life of the man who created THE BLACK CAT (1934), DAUGHTER OF DR. JEKYLL (1957), and more. Now out from authors David Luhrssen & Paul McComas @mcfarland.bsky.social mcfarlandbooks.com/product/stra...

On the left, the cover of the book "Strange Illusions: The Films of Edgar G. Ulmer" showing an image of a man and a woman in shadow, with a psychedelic-colored background.

On the right, an image from the 1934 film THE BLACK CAT in which Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff face off, the latter strung up shirtless while Lugosi roughly grasps his head.

Horror Lex®@horrorlex· 28d

This soil has seen blood ... "Horror & Indigeneity" is out from @utexaspress.bsky.social w/essays on the monstrous legacies of colonialism in works of and about Native peoples. Plus wendigos, zombies & mutant bears! Eds @mleeder.bsky.social & Gary D Rhodes utpress.utexas.edu/9781477334133

The cover of the book "Horror and Indigeneity: Literature, Film, and Television" featuring an image from the film BLOOD QUANTUM in which a masked Native American man confronts a screeching zombie in military gear.

Horror Lex®@horrorlex· 29d

Open up and let the Devil in! Green Letters journal has @jenniferhenke.bsky.social's new essay on Ben Wheatley's A FIELD IN ENGLAND, ecocriticism, and the skewering of "magic mushroom-induced epiphanies." #openaccess doi.org/10.1080/1468...

On the left, a screenshot of the article "The Limits of Psychedelic Transformation: Ben Wheatley's A Field in England (2013)" in plain text.

On the right, an image from the 2013 film A FIELD IN ENGLAND in which an unkempt, bug-eyed White man stuffs his mouth with a mushroom.

Horror Lex®@horrorlex· Jul 10

Richard Nowell's business is horror business, and business is … free! Proof versions of his seminal book on the economics of the original slashers, "Blood Money," as well as edited collection "Merchants of Menace," are now here: www.academia.edu/245052/Blood... www.academia.edu/785460/Merch...

On the left, the cover of the book "Blood Money: A History of the First Teen Slasher Film Cycle," with a cartoon-ish silhouette of a hatchet-wielding killer stalking a teen girl outside a movie theater.

On the right, the cover of the book "Merchants of Menace: The Business of Horror Cinema" featuring a cartoon of a mafia-boss type and a giant mutated bug looming over a movie theater, with patrons running out in fear.

Horror Lex®@horrorlex· Jul 9

The "Grotesque" can be weird, queer, monstrous, colonial, planetary, and sometimes a Human Centipede. Justin D. Edwards' (R.I.P.) and Rune Graulund's book on this complex concept is now in a second edition from @routledgebooks.bsky.social. www.routledge.com/Grotesque/Ed...

On the left, the top part of the cover of the book "Grotesque," in black with plain text.

On the right, an image from THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE in which a mad scientist in a white lab coat stands in front of a projection showing a drawing of the titular abomination.

Horror Lex®@horrorlex· Jul 8

Let Chijioke Azuawusiefe introduce you to the women, wealth, and witchcraft of Nigerian filmmaking, including those notorious "video films" filled with Pentecostal nightmares. "Nollywood and Popular Religion" is new from @iupress.bsky.social. iupress.org/978025307637...

The cover of the book "Nollywood and Popular Religion: Productions of Prosperity, Gender, and the Supernatural in Nigerian Cinema" showing an image of an empty movie theater with the sign of the cross shadowed onto the big screen.

Horror Lex®@horrorlex· Jul 7

"You're just like me... violent and depraved." Yi Chun Wu talks about the "Taiwan's trilogy of national calamity" as metaphorized in MON MON MONSTERS, THE SADNESS, and GET THE HELL OUT. #openaccess from Journal of Chinese Cinemas doi.org/10.1080/1750...

On the left, a screenshot of the article "Monsters, viruses, and a zombie parliament: Taiwan's trilogy of national calamity in the New Cold War" in plain text.

On the right, an image from the Taiwanese film THE SADNESS in which a middle-aged man covered in blood and dirt wields an axe calmly.

Horror Lex®@horrorlex· Jul 6

"He" might have come home, but "She" was there to meet him. @danieljsheppard.bsky.social looks back at our first Final Girls of the classic slasher era, including Laurie from HALLOWEEN, and the nuances of her feminist credentials. #openaccess from Q Rev Film & Video doi.org/10.1080/1050...

On the left, a screenshot of the article "Slashing the Sisterhood? Women's Authorship and the Postfeminist Politics of Early Teen Slasher" in plain text.

On the right, an image from the 1978 film HALLOWEEN showing the three young female protagonists walking together on a suburban sidewalk.

Horror Lex®@horrorlex· Jul 3

"The damn company. What about our lives, you son of a bitch?!" Penny Crofts and Honni van Rijswijk argue that, like in ALIEN, RESIDENT EVIL, and real life, Corporate Harms are A Horror Story. Get their new book from @routledgebooks.bsky.social www.routledge.com/Corporate-Ha...

On the left, the cover of the book "Corporate Harms: A Horror Story" with a generic geometric-patterned background in olive green.

On the right, an image from the 1986 movie ALIENS in which Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) grabs corporate stooge Burke (Paul Reiser) by the collar and yells at him.

Horror Lex®@horrorlex· Jun 29

"Monster is a relative term." The new Australasian J of Popular Culture has essays on freedom and power in the JURASSIC PARK franchise + the therapeutic potential of THE BLACK CAULDRON's kiddie gothic. @intellectbooks.bsky.social intellectdiscover.com/content/jour...

On the left, a screenshot of the article '"Man destroys god, man creates dinosaurs": Escaping from freedom in the Jurassic Park franchise" in plain text.

On the right, an image from the film JURASSIC WORLD in which a huge toothed dinosaur roars at a man crouching with a rifle.

Horror Lex®@horrorlex· Jun 22

"The strong one is the one that masters Kuntilanak." Indonesian film scholar Anton Sutandio traces the meaning of the female ghost-monster in all six of Rizal Mantovani's kuntilanak films. #openaccess at Cogent Arts & Humanities @tandfresearch.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/2331...

On the left, a screenshot of the article "Allegorical representation of Kuntilanak in Rizal Mantovani's films" in plain text.

On the right, a poster for the first film in Rizal Mantovani's series, KUNTILANAK, showing a close-up of the faces of three Indonesian young people plus a ghostly figure, in a soft and sickly green-white color.

Horror Lex®@horrorlex· Jun 18

The new @uniwalespress.bsky.social's aca-horror books are Stateside as of tomorrow! Demons of American recession + urban legends from X-FILES to BACKROOMS. Get from @uchicagopress.bsky.social @maireadcasey.bsky.social #IrenaJurković #MarkoLukić #TijanaParezanović press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

On the left, the cover of the book "Demon Possession and Sexual Violence in Post-Recession American Horror Cinema" featuring a surrealist drawing of a cloaked figure in a space-age background with a demon popping his head up from the ground.

On the right, the cover of the book "Urban Legends and the Cultural Geography of Horror" featuring a photo of the darkened staircase from THE EXORCIST.

Horror Lex®@horrorlex· Jun 16

Is God the original cosmic horror? @bgrafius.bsky.social considers vampires, Chthulu, and terrifying revelations in his new book: "Concerning Dust and Ashes: Affects of Horror in the Hebrew Bible." From #OUPAcademic global.oup.com/academic/pro...

The cover of the book "Concerning Dust and Ashes: Affects of Horror in the Hebrew Bible" featuring a drawing of a seemingly Biblical scene in which terrified people on the ground are menaced by a god-like creature in the sky.

Horror Lex®@horrorlex· Jun 12

Girl, those crows look great with that suit! @carolinejyoung.bsky.social's "Fashioning Hitchcock" is now out from @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social with a chapter on "The Costume of Horror: PSYCHO and THE BIRDS." www.bloomsbury.com/us/fashionin...

On the left, the cover of the book "Fashioning Hitchcock: Stories Behind the Costumes from The Lodger to Marnie" showing several characters from Hitchcock movies.

On the right, a famous image from Hitchcock's THE BIRDS in which a blonde woman (Tippi Hedren) runs with children away from a group of attacking birds in the sky.

Horror Lex®@horrorlex· Jun 11

Three horror books are getting a little lighter: New paperbacks are out for "Re-Imagining the Victim in Post-1970s Horror Media" - "The Politics of Monstrous Figures in Contemporary Cinema" - "Theorizing Stephen King." @routledgebooks.bsky.social www.routledge.com/Re-Imagining...

The covers of the three books mentioned in the post, one showing a woman with a skull head, one showing an old drawing of hag-witches, and one showing a man sitting in the top of an old-fashioned ink pen.

Horror Lex®@horrorlex· Jun 10

"How do you think people become famous any more?" Diana Nieva considers SCREAM 4 as no ordinary slasher, but one that contemplates "what it means for a creative work to die." #openaccess in Arts journal @mdpiopenaccess.bsky.social doi.org/10.3390/arts...

On the left, a screenshot of the article "Rebooting Death: Wes Craven's Scream 4 as Testament Film" in plain text.

On the right, image from the film SCREAM 4 on which two female characters stand on the porch of a house and look out at something terrifying.

Horror Lex®@horrorlex· Jun 9

Secret horse code unlocked! The latest Black Camera has essays from Vincent Jaunas on NOPE (2022) and "the Double Bind of Black filmmakers in Hollywood" + Tarja Laine on the social critique of "Black Skin, White Voices" in SORRY TO BOTHER YOU. @projectmuse.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...

On the left, the cover of the latest issue of Black Camera journal, edged in dark green and with a collage of air mail envelopes and other pieces of old mail, with phrases and handwriting strewn throughout, like "Unite the Film Industry."

On the right, an image from the 2022 film NOPE in which a Black man and woman stand in front of a green screen, filming a commercial with a horse.

Horror Lex®@horrorlex· Jun 8

Final Girl, Ideal Victim? Jacky Burrows thinks about the gendered link between slasher heroines like Laurie Strode and the targets of real-life crime. #openaccess at @crimemediaculture.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/1741...

On the left, a screenshot of the article "Final girl, the 'ideal victim', and Goldilocks: Challenging the exceptional criteria for victim status and survival in a gender hierarchy" in plain text.

On the right, an image of Final Girl Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) in HALLOWEEN (1978), hiding next to a couch and uncertainly wielding a knife.

Horror Lex®@horrorlex· Jun 4

Essays in the latest CINEJ tackle some horror heavy-hitters: mental health in MIDSOMMAR and gendered aging in THE SUBSTANCE. Get it #openaccess from authors Moritz Wischert-Zielke and @meltemcemiloglu.bsky.social. cinej.pitt.edu/ojs/index.ph...

On the left, a screenshot of the online table of contents for Cinej Cinema Journal issue 14.1 with an image of a film reel in the upper left corner.

On the right, an image from the film THE SUBSTANCE in which a middle-aged woman (Demi Moore) looks forlornly in the bathroom mirror, her face haggard and smeared with makeup.

Horror Lex®@horrorlex· Jun 3

Dr. Frankenstein isn't the only one to birth a monster. "Times of Horror, Magic & the Reproductive Body in Pop Culture" has essays on messed-up parenthood in BIRTH/REBIRTH, GOOD MANNERS, CHUCKY + more. @ruthbarrattpeacock.bsky.social @routledgebooks.bsky.social www.routledge.com/Times-of-Hor...

On the left, the cover of the book "Times of Horror, Magic & the Reproductive Body in Popular Culture" in plain text over an abstract geometric background.

On the right, an image from the film BIRTH/REBIRTH in which a little, dark-haired girl stares ahead menacingly, with blood spots on her face.

Horror Lex®@horrorlex· Jun 2

Were you recently enthralled by INCANTATION, thrilled by DEAD TALENTS SOCIETY, annihilated by THE SADNESS? Corrado Neri has the book for you! "Taiwanese Horror Cinema" is out today from @anthempress.bsky.social to explain the terrors of a small but mighty island. anthempress.com/books/taiwan...

The cover of the book "Taiwanese Horror Cinema in the 21st Century: Spectral Narratives and Screen Culture" featuring an image of a huge shrine decked out in gold and colorful decorations, and set into a bed of red rocks.

Horror Lex®@horrorlex· Jun 1

The latest Horror Studies is packed w/warlocks, slasher games, scary old ladies in HEREDITARY & found footage folk horror. @intellectbooks.bsky.social. Film essays by #PaytonMcCartySimas #JunxianCai #MarcusNicholls #JonathonCrewe #DennisOlsen #IsaiahFrostRivera www.intellectbooks.com/horror-studies

On the left, the cover of Horror Studies journal showing a woman in white walking into a dark forest.

On the right, an image of Grandmother from HEREDITARY (2018) lying peacefully in her coffin.

Horror Lex®@horrorlex· Jun 1

That didn't take long! Got our first pieces in the Horror Lex index about OBSESSION. Jered Mabaquiao writes about Bears in the woods. Mo Moshaty asks: Does anyone like Nikki? @horrorhomeroom.bsky.social @nighttidemag.bsky.social www.horrorhomeroom.com/and-the-wisd... nighttidemag.com/2026/05/25/s...

On the left, a screenshot of the article “And the Wisdom to Know the Difference: Intimacies in Obsession (2026)" on the Horror Homeroom website.

On the right, a screenshot of the article "Nobody Actually Likes Nikki: Projection and Friendship in Horror Cinema" on the Nighttide Magazine website. Both show images from the movie OBSESSION.

Horror Lex®@horrorlex· May 29

Only @ernest-mathijs.bsky.social and @cine-excess.bsky.social could put THE PRINCESS BRIDE and A SERBIAN FILM on the same must-see list. Their much-anticipated sequel to "100 Cult Films" is now out from @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social at a not-too-shabby price. www.bloomsbury.com/us/100-cult-...