Category Archives: Books

“Theology and Horror” gone to press

February 16th, 2021 | Posted in Books, horror, theology

Rowman & Littlefield just informed me that my co-edited volume with Brandon Grafius, Theology and Horror, has gone to press, just in time for the March release date. It’s not cheap, but request it from your library! https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781978707986/Theology-and-Horror-Explorations-of-the-Dark-Religious-Imagination Scholars of religion have begun to explore horror and the monstrous, not only within the confines of […]

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Volume for review – “Holy Monsters, Sacred Grotesques: Monstrosity and Religion in Europe and the United States”

November 30th, 2018 | Posted in Books, Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, monstrous, religion, Titles of Interest

I just received this volume for review in the Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts. Holy Monsters, Sacred Grotesques: Monstrosity and Religion in Europe and the United States, Edited by Michael E. Heyes Lexington Books, 2018 Holy Monsters, Sacred Grotesques examines the intersection of religion and monstrosity in a variety of different time periods […]

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“Dracula and Philosophy” review

November 4th, 2015 | Posted in Books, Dracula, philosophy, vampire

I have a brief review of Dracula and Philosophy: Dying to Know (Open Court, 2015), edited by Nicolas Michaud and Janelle Pötzsch at The Englewood Review of Books, currently as a feature review. It can be read here.

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Titles of Interest: Avatar and Nature Spirituality

August 18th, 2013 | Posted in Avatar, Books, religion, Titles of Interest

Previously TheoFantastique has engaged various facets of Avatar, including its incorporation of psychedelics and shamanism, its similarities to a new religious movement, utopianism, and its involvement with Dark Green Religion. In regards to the latter element I interacted with the work of Bron Taylor, and with this post I am pleased to mention a new […]

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Titles of Interest: To See the Saw Movies

August 7th, 2013 | Posted in 9/11, Books, horror, Saw, Titles of Interest, Torture Porn

Title of interest – To See the Saw Movies: Essays on Torture Porn and Post-9/11 Horror, edited by James Aston and John Walliss (McFarland, 2013). The Saw films, often derided by critics as “torture porn” and an excuse to show blood and gore, are the highest-grossing horror series in cinema history. In view of their […]

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Titles of Interest: Extraterrestrials and the American Zeitgeist

August 7th, 2013 | Posted in Books, Extraterrestrials, Titles of Interest, UFOs

Title of interest – Extraterrestrials and the American Zeitgeist: Alien Contact Tales Since the 1950s by Aaron John Gulyas (McFarland, 2013). Since the 1950s, men and women around the world have claimed to have had contact with human-like visitors from space. This book explores how the “contactee” subculture has critiqued political, social and cultural trends […]

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Titles of Interest: Bewitched Again

August 7th, 2013 | Posted in Books, horror, Titles of Interest, Western esotericism, Wicca, Witchcraft

This title of interest is Bewitched Again: Supernaturally Powerful Women on Television, 1996-2011 (McFarland, 2013) by Julie D. O’Reilly. Starting in 1996, U.S. television saw an influx of superhuman female characters who could materialize objects like Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, defeat evil like Buffy the Vampire Slayer and have premonitions like Charmed’s Phoebe. The extraordinary […]

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Title of Interest: The Descent

August 7th, 2013 | Posted in Books, horror, Titles of Interest

This post begins a new feature for TheoFantastique, promotion of various volumes that probe facets of the fantastic in more depth. We being with The Descent by James Marriott (Columbia University Press, 2013). The story of an all-female caving expedition gone horribly wrong, The Descent (2005) is arguably the best of the mid-2000s horror entries […]

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Fantastic Titles on the Fantastic

February 27th, 2011 | Posted in Books

The Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts is soliciting book reviews for various titles and I recently received a list. Following are a few that caught my eye. If only I had more time and funds for my personal library of the fantastic. The Scary Screen: Media Anxiety in The Ring, edited by Kristen […]

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