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Aeternum is an open-access biannual on-line journal. Edited by Lorna Piatti-Farnell (Auckland University of Technology), it offers peer-reviewed articles that feature "contemporary Gothic scholarship, bringing together innovative perspectives from different areas of study."
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The B-TV Collective is a forum for scholarship on global television production realities, historical periods, cultural traditions, genre, gender identity, sexuality, and race in genres and modes not generally considered in studies of prestige television. |
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Hosts Weekday Night Bites, a monthly series of 90-minute sessions devoted to connecting scholars on current topics in horror media. Recent topics include Eco-Horror and Christmas Horror, and scholarly discussions of new books such as Shellie McMurdo's Blood on the Lens (2022).
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The Collective for Research on Epistemologies and Ontologies of Embodied Risk (CORÉRISC) is a new research team focused on how the idea of embodied risk provides access to alternative ways of knowing and being in the world in dialogue with intersectional queer and feminist theory.
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Cut-Throat Women is a global database and resource for women horror artists aiming to increase visibility, and to bridge the gap between scholarship, production, and fandoms of horror made by women.
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Fantastika Journal is an online, open-access journal focusing on fantasy, sci-fi, Gothic horror, steampunk, "or any other radically imaginative narrative space." |
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FILM STUDIES FOR FREE is an academic resource curated by Catherine Grant. The site features lists of links to full-text academic articles and video essays grouped under themes relating to the study of the moving image and new media.
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"Gothic Nature is a new interdisciplinary and peer-reviewed academic journal seeking to explore the latest evolutions of thought in the areas of ecohorror and the ecoGothic. It welcomes articles, reviews, interviews, and original creative pieces from researchers and artists interrogating the darker sides of our relationship to the nonhuman. Get in touch with us at this email." (from the website)
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From the website: "Graveyard Shift Sisters is a space that seeks to spotlight, interrogate, and celebrate the on and off screen artistry of Black women in the horror and sometimes science fiction/fantasy genres."
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A site devoted to intelligent writing about British horror in many forms by contributors from the engaged fan to the academic, Horrified features writing on literature, film and television, and includes original fiction.
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Horror Lex is a searchable database of academic and other serious writings about horror and horror-adjacent cinema. It includes over 10,000 books and articles spanning a century of horror film scholarship, much of which is open access and peer-reviewed. (from the website)
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Horror Matters is a hub for the Horror Studies Working Group (HSWG), dedicated to the study and enjoyment of horror across the globe, with publications and events in association with the Global Horror Studies Archival and Research Network (GHSARN), the George A. Romero Foundation, the University of Pittsburgh Library System’s Horror Studies Archive, and the University of Pittsburgh Honors College’s Horror Genre as a Social Force Scholar Community.
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The Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary, electronic publication dedicated to the study of gothic and horror literature, film, theatre, new media, and television.
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Montreal Monstrum Society (MMS) is a scholarly collective offering courses and lectures in horror and related media for fans of the genre. Courses are free and run in fall and winter. Many are available online. MMS also publishes the biannual, peer-reviewed open-access journal Monstrum.
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"Morbidly Beautiful is a site dedicated to all things horror, created out of a genuine love and sincere respect for the genre. Here you’ll find movie reviews, in-depth commentary and analysis, the latest news and events, candid interviews, upcoming horror projects you need to know about, and much more." (from the website)
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"Nights of Horror is a multidisciplinary academic e-event that seeks to engage academics, students, and professionals in the field of horror. We strive to create a pop-cultural event around the theme of horror in October to encourage both intellectual pursuit as well as a bit of seasonal fun. Nights of Horror runs the entire month of October with different programming each night." (from the website)
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Open Humanities Press features studies, especially of ecology, that link to discussions of eco-horror and pessimism.
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Revenant is a peer-reviewed e-journal dedicated to academic and creative explorations of the Supernatural, the Uncanny and the Weird. |
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Shirley Jackson Studies is an open-access, peer-reviewed scholarly journal focusing on the work of American author Shirley Jackson. It is published biannually by the Shirley Jackson Society.
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"Spooky Evenings is a multidisciplinary academic e-event that seeks to engage academics, students, and professionals in the field of horror. We strive to create a pop-cultural event around the theme of horror in October to encourage both intellectual pursuit as well as a bit of seasonal fun. Spooky Evenings runs the entire month of October with different programming each night." (from the website) |
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Sublime Horror is an online magazine offering reviews and articles on topics related to horror film, television and literature.
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"Supernatural Studies (print ISSN 2470-203X; online ISSN 2325-4866) is a peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the academic study of representations of the supernatural, the speculative, the uncanny, and the weird across periods and disciplines. Supernatural Studies welcomes submissions on such representations in literature, film, television, video games, and other cultural texts and artifacts." (from the website)
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Tecmerin: Journal of Audiovisual Essays is published in Spanish and English. Not entirely horror related, but publishes videographic essays of interest on horror and other subjects.
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"The Teeming Brain explores news, trends, and developments in religion, horror, science fiction, fantasy, the paranormal, consciousness, and culture. It also has a central focus on the experience of creative inspiration in writing and the arts, and it tracks apocalyptic and dystopian trends in science, technology, politics, ecology, economics, the media, entertainment, education, and society at large. Its founder and primary author is Matt Cardin." (from the website)
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Thomas Ligotti Online is resource for news and updates on the work of Weird horror fiction master, Thomas Ligotti. Click the title or image at left, or click here.
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The Tobe Hooper Appreciation Society is a blog devoted to the work of one of the more unsung American directors. Features include film analysis, news, updates on releases, alternative cuts of films, and unpublished screenplay drafts.
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The Vampire Studies Association (VSA) is dedicated to promoting and publishing vampire scholarship. It produces the Journal of Vampire Studies.
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The Weird Fiction Review publishes interviews, short essays, comics, and occasional fiction on topics related to the Weird tradition.
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Elder Sign is a podcast from Claytemple Media and is devoted to studies in Weird and horror fiction. Each episode features a critical walk-through of a Weird horror story, and a follow-up analysis. Features works by H.P. Lovecraft, Shirley Jackson, China Miéville, Edgar Allan Poe, Stephen King, H.P. Lovecraft, and more. |
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Horror Joy is a podcast by Penn State Altoona professors Brian Onishi. and Jeff Stoyanoff, who take a deep dive into horror in hopes of finding joy lurking in the shadows. |
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Horror Queers Podcast is hosted by the horror news website Bloody Disgusting and can be found on Spotify here. From the website: "Each week, queer hosts Joe Lipsett and Trace Thurman discuss a horror film with LGBTQ+ themes, a high camp quotient or both." |
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Horror Vanguard is a podcast devoted to analysis of horror films from a critical-leftist perspective. |
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Imaginary Worlds is a podcast about science fiction, fantasy and other genres of speculative fiction hosted by Eric Molinsky
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With Monstras: A Latinx Horror Podcast, "Brenda Salguero and Dr. Orquidea Morales use their expertise and experiences, to explore the world of Latin American and Latinx folklore, horror, and monsters." |
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With Weird Studies, Professor Phil Ford and writer/filmmaker J. F. Martel host a series of conversations on art and philosophy, dwelling on ideas that are hard to think and art that opens up rifts in what we are pleased to call "reality." |
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From the website: "Welcome to the H. P. Lovecraft reread, in which two modern Mythos writers—Ruthanna Emrys and Anne M Pillsworth—get girl cooties all over old Howard’s original stories. Together they hope to explore both the awesome and the problematic, both the deliberately and accidentally horrific. Reading order will be more or less random. As the Great Race of Yith would point out, if they cared enough to do so, linear time is merely an illusion anyway. ... Ruthanna and Anne continue their exploration of weird fiction, cosmic horror, and Lovecraftiana in their new series, Reading the Weird."
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A carefully curated and updated site devoted to lost or unavailable series. Another incredible resource for scholars of early television in particular.
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