Tag Archives: Gothic horror

Call for Papers: ‘Horror After Psychoanalysis’, A Special Issue of Horror Studies, edited by Dale Townshend

September 8th, 2011 | Posted in Gothic horror, horror, psychoanalysis

The following call for papers was originally posted at The University of Sterling’s The Gothic Imagination website. Call for Papers: ‘Horror After Psychoanalysis’, A Special Issue of Horror Studies, edited by Dale Townshend. Psychoanalysis, be it in its orthodox Freudian forms or via the revisionist theories of Lacan, Kristeva and Žižek, has become a dominant […]

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Victoria Nelson: Guillermo del Toro’s Gothick Cosmos

May 11th, 2011 | Posted in Gothic horror, Guillermo del Toro, Victoria Nelson

While checking the quotes and bibliographical sources in a recent book I was introduced to the work of Victoria Nelson. Nelson is an independent scholar and the author of The Secret Life of Puppets (Harvard University Press, 2002), as well as the forthcoming Gothicka (Harvard University Press, April 2012). In the midst of a very […]

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American Horror Film: James Kendrick and Spiritual Horror Films

August 15th, 2010 | Posted in Gothic horror, horror, spirituality

As previously noted here in a discussion based upon an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education, there is a growing body of academic books exploring horror films. One of those books is American Horror Film: The Genre at the Turn of the Millennium, edited by Steffen Hantke (University Press of Mississippi, 2010). While many […]

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Darryl Jones on Thematic Horror

March 31st, 2009 | Posted in Gothic horror, horror

Darryl Jones teaches at the School of English at Trinity College Dublin. He is the author of Horror: A Thematic History in Fiction and Film (A. Hodder Arnold, 2003). After several weeks of trying to connect we were finally able to get together to explore some of the topics covered in this fine book. TheoFantastique: […]

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Rue Morgue – Divinity in Darkness: The Rise of Christian Horror

March 17th, 2009 | Posted in Christianity, Gothic horror, horror, Rue Morgue magazine

The cover of the current issue of Rue Morgue magazine, Issue #87 highlights a double referent in its contents which dovetail with an emphasis of this blog in its analysis of the religious and social aspects of horror and the fantastic. The cover points toward an article on “Pascal Laugier’s religious-themed torture porn,” but of real […]

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Paul Leggett, Gothic Horror and Terence Fisher

March 7th, 2007 | Posted in Gothic horror, Paul Leggett, Terence Fisher

Paul Leggett is one of the most interesting and unique Presbyterian pastors around. In fact, it has been said that Paul is probably the most knowledgeable Presbyterian pastor on horror films that one can find. I first met Paul at Cornerstone Festival in the Imaginarium, and have had the pleasure of hearing his insights on […]

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