‘Horror Film: A Critical Introduction’ by Murray Leeder
This is a book review of ‘Horror Film: A Critical Introduction’ by Murray Leeder, a comprehensive yet concise introductory guide to horror cinema
Publishings
Rediscovering Horror: From Graveyard Poetry to Popular Culture
‘Horror: A Literary History’, edited by Xavier Aldana Reyes, is divided into seven chapters which function as separate essays that can be read without having specific knowledge about the horror genre
European Nightmares: The Horror Cinema in Europe Since 1945
One of the goals of European Nightmares is to oppose to the “old” Dollarshorror label with a more open and ductile concept that takes into account European-Hollywood co-production
Sarah Burns’s ‘Painting the Dark Side’: Art and the Gothic
Sarah Burns’s book, ‘Painting the Dark Side’, aims to overturn what we think we know about nineteenth-century American art
‘Dangerous Bodies’: Historicising the Gothic Corporeal
In this ambitious and comprehensive tome, ‘Dangerous Bodies’ engages with the Gothic’s obsession with the corporeal.
Horror Before Horror: Arthur Machen’s Nightmares
Worth concludes with similarly well-crafted analyses of two currents in Arthur Machen’s fiction that have contributed to his important place in the pre-history of genre Horror.
The Gothic, Violent Intervention of ‘Une Semaine de bonté’
In the year that ‘Murder on the Orient Express’ came out, as I have indicated, another novel featuring a murder on a train appeared.
The Bloodied Compartment of ‘Murder on the Orient Express’
Agatha Christie’s ‘Murder on the Orient Express’ is in one sense a reinscription of Émile Zola’s naturalist masterpiece ‘La Bête humaine’ (1890).
Vinyl Freak: Love Letters to a Dying Medium Insights
Duke University Press has lovingly reproduced the cover art of albums and a few singles in full colour alongside John Corbett’s commentaries.
‘Contemporary Gothic’, by Catherine Spooner
An enduring truism about the cultural phenomenon known as the Gothic is that it simply will not die.
Gothic-Grotesque of ‘Haunted’: Joyce Carol Oates’ Tales
In literature, as in the visual arts, images of the body have come to assimilate many of the collective changes of the postmodern world.
Haunting and Spectrality in Neo-Victorian Fiction
Ghosts, ghost stories and the tropes of haunting and spectrality are recurrent topics in contemporary literature and criticism.
‘Gothicka: Vampire Heroes, Human Gods, and the New Supernatural’
‘Gothicka: Vampire Heroes, Human Gods, and the New Supernatural’ is an attempt to explain, as accurately and in the simplest terms as one can, the strange, subtle turn that has occurred with the Gothic in the still budding twenty-first-century.
The Cultural Afterlife of the Victorian Freak Show
In her book, Helen Davies explores the representation in neo-Victorian re-imaginings of freak show performers and questions us about bodily diversity in our cultural moment
‘The Demonology Of William Of Auvergne: By Fire And Sword’
William of Auvergne, Bishop of Paris from 1228 until 1249, is one of the major figures in the medieval history of learned magic and demonology.
