On the left, a screenshot of the article "Mother is God in the eyes of a child: mariology, revelation, and mothers in Silent Hill" in plain text.

On the right, an image from the 2006 film SILENT HILL in which a bedraggled-looking woman (Dahlia), in the Burning World, perches upon a pile of rocks and looks ahead suspiciously.

SILENT HILL was released 20 years ago today. For a closer look at its Biblical femme figures, both madonnas and harlots, check out Amy Green's #openaccess essay from 2014: "Mother is God in the eyes of a child: mariology, revelation & mothers in Silent Hill." @jcrt.org
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On the left, the cover of the latest issue of journal Somatechnics with a large close-up photo of a veiny, brown, crumbling leaf.

On the right, a poster for the 1971 film DON'T DELIVER US FROM EVIL showing two pre-teen girls standing in front of roaring flames.

Spring is here, and nature is aliiiiive! Ecohorror is the subject of the latest Somatechnics, incl. an #openaccess essay on the queer conflagrations in SAINT MAUD and DON'T DELIVER US FROM EVIL from @lezzie-borden.bsky.social. @cnwilson.bsky.social
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The Work That Never Leaves: Labor as a Parasitic Presence in Hard Work - Bright Lights Film Journal The horror in Hard Work is not that a monster exists; it is that the monster is structural. It resides in architecture, in managerial relations, in aspirational rhetoric, in the[...]

In HARD LABOR, an atypical Brazilian workplace-horror film set in a grocery, the monster isn't just inside, it's embedded in the walls. Read Guilherme Quireza's "The Work That Never Leaves: Labor as a Parasitic Presence" #BrightLightsFilm #openaccess
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The cover of the book "Under the Gun: Criminology Goes Back to the Movies" featuring a filmstrip with the same image from THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, of wide-eyed Agent Clarice Starling aiming her gun straight ahead at shoulder height.

What drives crime narratives in films? @profmichellebrown.bsky.social & Travis Linnemann investigate pop demonology in THE CONJURING, carceral feminism in THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, and more in "Under the Gun: Criminology Goes Back to the Movies." @nyupress.bsky.social
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On the left, the cover of the book "No More Chainsaws: Feminist Criticism and the New Wave of Women's Horror Cinema" with the title in plain text and big letters.

On the right, an image from JENNIFER'S BODY in which a beautiful, dark-haired teenage girl holds the flame of a cigarette lighter to her tongue, and doesn't flinch.

"You're killing people? ... No, I'm killing boys." "No More Chainsaws" examines four key films of the New Wave of Women's Horror Cinema: AMERICAN MARY, JENNIFER'S BODY, CARRIE (2013), and TWILIGHT. Out tomorrow from Dan Vena & @rutgersupress.bsky.social
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MONSTER CAPITAL - OUT NOW! 📚🥳

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In the spirit of Mark Fisher, we invited writers to explore capitalism through the lens of the gothic & surreal: TV shows built on misery, lab-grown meat with a mind of its own, housing developments spread like a virus & much more...

The cover of the book "Archival Anxiety in Documentary and Mockumentary Horror" featuring a blurry photo of a movie cameraman as seen through a large spider web.

If ever there was a week proving that reality is scarier than fiction! "Archival Anxiety" is here just in time to highlight docu/mocku films like CROPSEY & THE HELLSTROM CHRONICLE and their gothic reflection of modern life. #KristopherWoofter @anthempress.bsky.social
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The cover of the book "Becoming Alien: The Beginning and End of Evil in Science Fiction’s Most Idiosyncratic Film Franchise," in green and white, featuring an image of the dipping-bird toy that has been seen in most ALIEN films to date.

"Is this gonna be a stand-up fight, sir, or another bug hunt?" @dodgyboffin.com's "Becoming Alien," which interprets the ALIEN cosmology as a "cycle of chaos and relationship," is now in a new second edition, thru ALIEN: ROMULUS. #CascadeBooks
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SAYING READY OR NOT 2: HERE I COME, AND THEY WILL KILL YOU ARE THE SAME MOVIE PROVES YOU FAILED SCRIPT ANALYSIS AND DIMINISHES THE IMPORTANCE OF BLACK GIRL RAGE Two women fighting back, two completely different conversations: mistaking Ready or Not 2 and They Will Kill You for the same story exposes how quickly media literacy collapses when Black girl rage…

'If you think READY OR NOT 2 and THEY WILL KILL YOU are one in the same, @sharai.bsky.social has a bone to pick. Both Grace and Asia throw down against some cultists, but only one film recognizes Black girl rage. @nighttidemag.bsky.social
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The cover of the book "King Kong: The History of a Movie Icon" with a large image from the 2005 version of KING KONG in which the great ape holds a blonde woman in his giant paw and they look thoughtfully at each other.

"No chains will ever hold that!" After 20 years, @raymorton1.bsky.social has updated his definitive history of the greatest ape, from the 1933 classic to the neo-Monsterverse. "King Kong: The History of a Movie Icon" is out today @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social
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On the left, the cover of the book "The US-Mexico Borderlands in Contemporary Horror" with a photo of a border fence in the desert, everything looking dry and desolate.

On the right, an image from the TV series "From Dusk Til Dawn" showing an older Hispanic man (Danny Trejo) in vintage Western military garb, holding a firearm in one hand and looking mean.

"The US-Mexico Borderlands in Contemporary Horror" looks at the clash of two powers in monstrous allegory, incl. in BORDERLAND, BLOOD MOON, and FROM DUSK TIL DAWN: THE SERIES. New from author @annamartamarini.bsky.social @edinburghup.bsky.social
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-us-...

Eating something? Something eating you? I know who I trust to tell me 👇

On the left, the cover of the latest issue of Studies in the Fantastic, with a surrealist collage of images of a man, a baby, and foliage.

On the right, an image from SINNERS (2025) in which a young Black man sings the blues, his eyes closed as he strains for the note and his hand raised to the sky.

Studies in the Fantastic just dropped essays on indigenous gothic BeDEVIL (1993), pregnancy horrors like THE BROOD as seen thru a "crip" lens, + the blues-inflected queering of SINNERS. @projectmuse.bsky.social @fantastic-journal.bsky.social @katherineprentice.bsky.social
muse.jhu.edu/issue/56627

BUFFY SAVED THE WORLD A LOT, BUT SHE CANNOT SAVE US FROM THE INTERNET AND PARASOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS Buffy the Vampire Slayer means something deeply personal to many fans, and while the last few years have stirred up grief, anger, and confusion, those complicated feelings deserve reflection rather…

Buffy shaped a generation of fans, so the sadness, anger, & confusion around it now are real, but nostalgia burning doesn’t give us permission to burn each other. @sharai.bsky.social looks back (and hopefully forward) at Buffy the Vampire Slayer. 👻📺
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On the left, a screenshot of the article "They only come out at night: Nocturnal horror, morbidity and fascism as fashion" in plain text.

On the right, an image from the film THE NIGHT PORTER showing a young, very thin woman (Charlotte Rampling) nearly topless, dressed only in suspendered pants, long gloves, and an SS officer's hat, looking defiant and theatrical.

"Fascinating fascism." James J. Ward explores the intersection of fetishism, pornography, and Nazi style--including in HORROR CASTLE and THE NIGHT PORTER--in the latest issue of Film, Fashion & Consumption. @intellectbooks.bsky.social
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Children of the Wicker Man: The True Story Behind One of the Most Remarkable Films Ever Made The True Story Behind One of the Most Remarkable Films Ever Made

Psst … UK buyers had early access to this, but it's new in print for Yanks. Want to buy it stateside? Here ya go: bookshop.org/p/books/chil...

The cover of the book "Children of The Wicker Man: The True Story Behind One of the Most Remarkable Films Ever Made," with a primitive sketch of the famous final scene in which a huge human-shaped figure looms over the countryside.

We know what happened to Sgt. Howie, but that did THE WICKER MAN do to the director's kids? Robin Hardy's sons, Dominic and Justin, have penned their memoirs about parents, profits, and paganism. Ed. Chris Nunn #thehistorypress
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On the left, the cover of the latest issue of Science Fiction Film & TV journal, featuring an image of the lead character from ANNA & THE APOCALYPSE, a college-aged young White woman with long brown hair, listening to music on her earbuds and looking happy.

On the right, an image from THEY CLONED TYRONE in which three Black people in '70s-style street clothes find a seemingly dead Black man on a laboratory slab, and look shocked.

Zombies are on the brain (BRAIIIINZ!) over at Sci Fi Film & TV journal. Read @drwalkingdead.bsky.social on the modern meaning of ANNA & THE APOCALYPSE + Isiah Lavender III on Black zombies and Black zombie creators. Available on @projectmuse.bsky.social.
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CONTAGION TONGUE: WHEN LANGUAGE BECOMES A DISEASE What if horror’s most terrifying idea isn’t possession, but the quiet, everyday ways language seeps in, reshapes how we think, and decides whose voices we’re willing to hear?

I sorta went in on language in horror…from neural linguistics to cursed languages to giving a voice to voiceless. Let’s talk….or not! 👻📽️
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I'd just like to mention that these retro ad posts of yours are a welcome addition to my feed every day. They help dilute the increasingly strident tone of doomsaying of my feed. And they're not frivolous. Each one may not get tons of likes, but they are very liked 💖

The cover of the book "Partially Devoured: How Night of the Living Dead Saved My Life and Changed the World" showing images from the film, incl a large profile of main character Ben looking determined, and a smaller horde of zombies coming out from the black background.

"Don't you know what's goin' on out there? This is no Sunday School picnic!" @danielkraus.com goes frame-by-frame to revisit Romero's original gut-munching classic NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD in his new book "Partially Devoured." Now out from #CounterpointPress
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Ugh, the bane of my existence. I try so hard to vet entries going into the Horror Lex database to make sure they're not AI, but I don't think I can ever be 100% successful. How long before I won't actually be able to tell the difference?

On the left, the homepage of The Association for the Study of Buffy+, the home of Slayage journal, with a blood-splattered background and plain black text.

On the right, an image from the TV show Buffy the Vampire Slayer, showing blonde teenager Buffy in a fighting stance with a defiant look on her face.

Since 2000, "Slayage" has been through the Whedon wringer. The journal is emerged anew and ready to serve up more scholarship on Buffy and her extended universe, which even a primo Hollywood jerk can't ruin. Check out the latest #openaccess issue at their new home:
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On the left, the cover of the Spring 2026 issue of Film Quarterly, featuring an image from a film in which a woman leans her head against a tree in a park, and a statute of a T Rex can be seen over her shoulder.

On the right, an image of Aunt Gladys from the film WEAPONS, a garishly made-up older woman with a manic smile.

The Spring @filmquarterly.bsky.social is stacked w/ #openaccess horror: Elinor Dolliver schools us on analog horror, Mina Radović explains Yugoslav animal horror, @tonyeatspuppies.bsky.social identifies a new trio of witches in LONGLEGS, BRING HER BACK & WEAPONS.
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On the left, a screenshot of the article "The making of the Stepford teacher: a feminist horror story of teacher preparation" in plain text.

On the right, an image from the final scene of the film THE STEPFORD WIVES (1975) in which the picture-perfect wives are grocery shopping in frilly dresses.

"Stepford has really done things to you." #BrittanyAronson et al imaginatively use THE STEPFORD WIVES to convey the "terror of the docility, passivity, and subjectification" of the "good" teacher. #OpenAccess from Critical Studies in Education. #GanivaReyes #RachealBanda
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Here in New England, March is most definitely still winter, soooo.... 👇👇

The cover of the book "Unsuitable Film and Video Audiences: Underage Viewing Memories and Practices in 1980s United Kingdom" with an image from the movie POLTERGEIST of a girl sitting in front of a large TV, her hands both on the screen.

GenX Brits, get ready to revisit your night terrors, secret softcore, and video nasties. @ilovethatfilm.bsky.social's "Unsuitable Film & Video Audiences" revisits the memories of the first generation to grow up with home video. @edinburghup.bsky.social
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On the left, the cover of the latest issue of Supernatural Studies journal with a gloomy drawing of a green lawn surrounded by stones and fencing leading to a big stone altar.

On the right, an image of the character Carmilla, a female vampire with long white hair in the TV animated series CASTLEVANIA. She is holding a golden chalice as if making a toast.

A whole #openaccess issue! The new Supernatural Studies has folk horror in NIGHTBREED, house-love in THE LITTLE STRANGER, witchy girls of the 2010s & sapphic animated vampires in CASTLEVANIA. @plaguedr-richards.bsky.social
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The cover of the book "Clowns in Horror: A Film & Television Guide" featuring a close-up of a demented clown's face as he cries tears of blood.

Beep Beep, kiddos! Glenn Tolle is here to ruin your adulthood just like Pennywise (or Art, if you're a young'un) ruined your childhood. "Clowns in Horror: A Film & Television Guide" is now out from @mcfarland.bsky.social.
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