Author dek7
Loved researching and writing this article on Nigel Kneale’s original screenplay for Halloween III – and the different kinds of folk horror this film ultimately encompassed. 1982’s Halloween III: Season of the Witch, produced by John Carpenter and Debra Hill… Continue Reading →
“True Detective’s Folk Gothic,” in Dark Scenes from Damaged Earth: The Gothic Anthropocene, edited by Justin D. Edwards, Rune Graulund, and Johan Höglund (University of Minnesota Press, 2022), pp. 130-50. Here’s the full citation for the chapter – and the… Continue Reading →
In two recent posts for Horror Homeroom, I wrote about the amazing new folk horror film, Enys Men (2022), from Mark Jenkin (who previously directed Bait) – and about how Roar Uthaug’s Troll (2022) represents the ways folk horror emerges… Continue Reading →
Check out the details below for a special issue of Horror Studies Jeff Tolbert and I co-edited. Guest editors, Dr. Dawn Keetley, Professor of English and Film, Lehigh University, dek7@lehigh.edu, and Dr. Jeffrey A. Tolbert, Assistant Professor of American Studies… Continue Reading →
“Black Mold, White Extinction: I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House, The Haunting of Hill House, “Gray Matter,” and H. P. Lovecraft’s “The Shunned House,” in Haunted Nature: Entanglements of the Human and the Nonhuman, edited by… Continue Reading →
An article for a special issue of Science Fiction Film and Television on ‘Creature Features and the Environment’, edited by Bridgitte Barclay and Christy Tidwell (2021). I write about The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953), the TV series, Fortitude… Continue Reading →
I was interviewed for this interesting piece on the contemporary monsters of horror and the collective fears they represent, by Anabel Sosa for Inside Edition. https://www.insideedition.com/if-american-horror-films-reflect-our-collective-fears-what-monsters-will-this-generation-see-emerge
“Tentacular Ecohorror and the Agency of Trees in Algernon Blackwood’s ‘The Man Whom the Trees Loved’ and Lorcan Finnegan’s Without Name” Drawing on the work of Stacy Alaimo, China Miéville, Eugene Thacker, and Donna Haraway, this chapter identifies a “tentacular… Continue Reading →
To commemorate the 50th anniversary of Piers Haggard’s The Blood on Satan’s Claw, we published a special issue of Horror Homeroom, with ten original essays. Mine is called “The Ruined Church in The Blood on Satan’s Claw: Fertility and Population… Continue Reading →
Invited participant in a roundtable panel, “Summoning Candyman: A Panel Discussion of the Cinematic Urban Legend,” Society for Cinema and Media Conference, Horror Studies Scholarly Interest Group, Virtual, March 18, 2021. I joined Robin Means Coleman, Dani Bethea, and Jon… Continue Reading →
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