Author dek7
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 →
Our third special issue of Horror Homeroom features five essays on the HBO series, Lovecraft Country. It features an amazing cover by Kirk Manley.
Really enjoyed writing an essay for Gothic Nature (2021) on several folk horror texts: The Wicker Man, Children of the Stones, Stephen King’s ‘Children of the Corn’ and King and Joe Hill’s ‘In the Tall Grass’. Here’s the abstract: The… Continue Reading →
Two new great folk horror films have been released recently–both very different and representing two very different strands of folk horror. I have substantial reviews of both on Horror Homeroom. Ben Wheatley’s new film, In the Earth, premiered at Sundance… Continue Reading →
Here’s the second in Horror Homeroom’s series of special issues in journal format centered on key events in horror. They will include longer articles than we usually run in Horror Homeroom — about twice as long — by non-academics and… Continue Reading →
Horror Homeroom is launching a series of special issues in journal format centered on key events in horror. They will include longer articles than we usually run in Horror Homeroom — about twice as long — by non-academics and academics…. Continue Reading →
I have a chapter on Mike Flanagan’s Netflix series, The Haunting of Hill House, in Kevin Wetmore’s edited collection on the series, The Streaming of Hill House: Essays on the Haunting Netflix Adaptation (McFarland, 2020). I’m including my introduction below,… Continue Reading →
I am very happy to announce that the special issue I edited for Revenant: Critical and Creative Studies of the Supernatural, Issue 5 (March 2020) is now available. Here’s the Table of Contents. You’ll also find reviews of related books…. Continue Reading →
An article in The Journal of Popular Culture, vol. 52, no. 5 (2019). A preoccupation of the post-Recession horror film has been the uncanny human—proliferating involuntary doubles bereft of reason and choice. Recent horror film has exploited sleep disorders in… Continue Reading →
The new cover for my upcoming edited collection on Jordan Peele’s Get Out is here! Jordan Peele’s Get Out: Political Horror is a collection of fourteen scholarly essays (including the introduction) devoted to exploring Get Out’s roots in the horror… Continue Reading →
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