Sleeping too soundly lately? Time to learn about Momo, Slenderman, pontianaks, creeps, devils, bunyips, and all manner of folkloric "Monstrous Beings" in this new edited collection from Jessica Balanzategui, Allison Craven, & Amsterdam UP. #horror #horroracademia #newbooks
https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789463726344/monstrous-beings-and-media-cultures

The journal Humanities (MDPI) continues to build its special issue on gothic adaptation. The latest essays: Krista Collier-Jarvis on creepy playtime in three versions of PET SEMETARY & Drago Momcilovic on MTV monsters. Both are #OpenAccess! #horror #horrorfilms #horrormovies #horroracademia
https://doi.org/10.3390/h12040071
https://doi.org/10.3390/h12050090

Diana Cuéllar Ledesma has a chapter in the new "Small Cinemas of the Andes" on Peruvian horror, like the delightfully named PISTHACO (2003). A wandering beast that kills you and turns your fat into chicharrones? New nightmare fuel! From Palgrave Macmillan #horror #horrorfilms #horrormovies #horroracademia
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32018-7

Two new e-books: one chronicles the UK's X-cert for '60s films like PEEPING TOM, the other examines the "human" in posthumanism films like ANNIHILATION. @BloomsburyUSA #horror #horrorfilms #horrormovies #newbooks #horroracademia
https://tinyurl.com/5n7kwrdd https://tinyurl.com/yvs2h5vp

If you missed them the first time, "Japanese Horror Cinema & Deleuze" by Rachel E Barraclough & "Blaxploitation Horror" by Jamil Mustafa are out in paperback this month. Save money + learn horror = be happy. #horror #horrorfilms #horrormovies #newbooks #horroracademia
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/japanese-horror-cinema-and-deleuze-9781501368295/
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/B/bo196814107.html

“I’ll tell you one thing, they ain’t gettin’ the TV.” Relive 70 years of little green men on the big screen with "Alien Abduction in the Cinema: A History from the 1950s to Today" by Paul Meehan. New from McFarland. #horror #horrorfilms #aliens #horrormovies #horroracademia
https://mcfarlandbooks.com/product/alien-abduction-in-the-cinema/

It isn't the twists, it's the "emotionally satisfying, reassuring plot resolutions." Read Brent Yergensen's new essay on how M. Night Shyamalan gets butts in seats. Read it #OpenAccess in Americana: The Journal of American Popular Culture. #horror #horrormovies #horrorfilms #horroracademia
https://americanpopularculture.com/journal/articles/spring_2023/yergensen.htm

Even when the monster is out of frame, it still beckons from the edges. Tarja Laine considers the personal, social, & national traumas that haunt IT FOLLOWS, GET OUT, PARASITE & other films in "Reframing Trauma in Contemporary Fiction Film," new from Rowman & Littlefield. #horror #horrormovies #horrorfilms #horroracademia
https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781793651952/Reframing-Trauma-in-Contemporary-Fiction-Film

"Is this another terrorist attack?!" In 2008, we were still reliving our national trauma in monster form, a subject taken up by Steffen Hantke in his new book: "Cloverfield: Creatures and Catastrophes in Post-9/11 Cinema." From UP Mississippi #horror #horrormovies #horrorfilms #horroracademia
https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/C/Cloverfield

NOPE is about the eye of the camera, but also Black defiance of it. Read Sophia Abbey's brief but excellent piece in FLOW journal, "Gazing Upwards: Spectacle, Surveillance, and Resistance in Nope." #OpenAccess #horror #horrormovies #horrorfilms #horroracademia
https://www.flowjournal.org/2023/08/gazing-upwards/

Vampire expert & book-writing machine @simonhbacon has dropped more bloodsucking knowledge for our COVID-plagued times. "Contagion and the Vampire: The Vampiric Body as Locus of Disease and Global Epidemics in 21st Century" is new from Palgrave Macmillan. #horror #horrormovies #horrorfilms #horroracademia https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-39202-3

Not one but TWO new books on horror auteur Wes Craven for your shelf. Thanks for keeping his legacy alive, Rowman & Littlefield and editors Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, John Darowski, David K. Goodin. #horror #horrormovies #horrorfilms #horroracademia #wescraven
https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781666919073/A-Critical-Companion-to-Wes-Craven
https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781978714700/Theology-and-Wes-Craven

Right up our horror-lovin' alley: DieDieBooks is a new press dedicated to horror films. Check out their first two releases, POLTERGEIST by Jacob Trussell and THREADS by Bob Mielke. Five dollar ebooks! #horror #horrormovies #horrorfilms #horroracademia
https://diediebooks.com/collections/frontpage

What happens to the women of netherworlds: those burning in SILENT HILL, lost in PAN'S LABYRINTH & tethered in US? Find out in "Female Identity in Contemporary Fictional Purgatorial Worlds" ed. Simon Bacon, w/an early Kindle release today from Bloomsbury. #horror #horrorfilms #horrormovies #horroracademia
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/female-identity-in-contemporary-fictional-purgatorial-worlds-9781350227057/

Something is spooky in the Indian state of Kerala. Let Pooja Prasad and Dr. Balakrishnan K school you in "The Tradition of Horror in Malayalam Cinema," just published in a new-to-us, peer-reviewed, English-Hindi journal, ShodKosh. #OpenAccess #horror #horrorfilms #horrormovies #horroracademia
https://doi.org/10.29121/shodhkosh.v4.i1SE.2023.423

Two new books from McFarland to sink your canines into: A profile of Cujo, Zoltan, and other "Horror Dogs" by Brian Patrick Duggan + a new paperback version of Bryan Senn's comprehensive "Werewolf Filmography." A hairy paw salute, awooo! #horror #horrorfilms #horrormovies #horroracademia #newbooks
https://mcfarlandbooks.com/product/horror-dogs/
https://mcfarlandbooks.com/product/the-werewolf-filmography-2/

Also new to Quarterly Review of Film & Video: Justito Adiprasetio and Annissa Winda Larasati are "Deconstructing Pocong, the Indonesian Sacred Ghost" in their new essay on horror film MUMUN (2022) and its reflection of localized fears. Pre-pub now at Taylor & Francis. #horror #horrorfilms #horrormovies #horroracademia
https://doi.org/10.1080/10509208.2023.2230116

New Quarterly Review of Film & Video has Angelos Koutsourakis on surveillance capitalism in neo-thrillers like PARANOIA 1.0 (2004) (#OpenAccess!) plus Steve Jones on the "Appealing, Appalling" I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE (2010), finally in print. #horror #horrorfilms #horrormovies #horroracademia
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/gqrf20/current

Congrats to Calum Waddell and his contributors on "ReFocus: The Films of Wes Craven," new from #EdinburghUP. Essays from folk horror in THE HILLS HAVE EYES to Reaganism in THE PEOPLE UNDER THE STAIRS to his final slasher in SCREAM 4. #horror #horrormovies #horrorfilms #wescraven #horroracademia
https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-refocus-the-films-of-wes-craven.html

Going where mom's camcorder has never gone before... "Aesthetic Deviations" by Vincent Albarano, "The first serious critical evaluation of American shot-on-video horror cinema," is out today from #Headpress. #horror #horroracademia #horrorfilms #horrormovies
https://headpress.com/product/aesthetic-deviations/