Horror Studies Resources
This page includes links to scholarly resources for horror and related studies in literature and the moving image, as well as podcasts and links to streaming sites for rare and "lost" films and TV series. Feel free to help to develop this resource by contacting us.
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Online Scholarly Resources for Horror Studies
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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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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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From the website: "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."
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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 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 Gothic Journal is an open-access (online) peer-reviewed journal for scholarship on gothic and horror in a variety of media.
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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 run in fall and winter. MMS also publishes the annual, peer-reviewed open-access journal Monstrum.
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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."
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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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"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." |
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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 Weird Fiction Review publishes interviews, short essays, comics, and occasional fiction on topics related to the Weird tradition. |
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Podcasts
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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 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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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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Resources for the Study of Rare Films and Television
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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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