Special Issue #8
Artwork by Andrew Foley
Horror Literature
This special issue on horror literature ranges from the exploration of queer sexuality in a late nineteenth-century horror novella to explorations of creativity, ecological crisis, sexual taboo, trauma and grief in twenty-first-century horror fiction. The incredible span and diversity of the fiction taken up by the essays here – and the importance and complexity of the questions asked by that fiction – make it clear that horror literature may well be one of the most important of literary genres. And we may well be living through another boom, another golden era, of horror production.
Essay Collection
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Preface
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Grand, Middle, or Plain? Rhetorical Style and Horror Literature
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What to Do with Too Much Horror Fiction: Canonizing a Literary Genre in Its Peak Performance Years
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The Science of Ordinary Fear: The Nest (1980)
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The Moorstone Sickness: Bernard Taylor’s ‘Low-Brow’ 1982 Folk Horror
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The Troubled Journey from Page to Screen of Clive Barker’s Cabal (1988)
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What Is “Italian” in Italian (Folk) Horror? On Luigi Musolino’s A Different Darkness (2022)
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Trauma, Entropy and Monster-Making in Hazel’s Phantasmagoria and the Tales of Terror Series
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Final Girls United: Trauma, Survival, and Collective Strength
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Horrific Grief in Harrow the Ninth
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The Horror of Carmilla: Intimacy and the Censoring of Desire
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“What Have You Done Today to Deserve Your Eyes?”: Taboo, Power Dynamics, and Queer Worthiness in Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke
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Self-Reflexivity, Anxiety, and Creating Horror in Scott Thomas’s Kill Creek (2017) and Brian McAuley’s Curse of the Reaper (2022)
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Adapting Ecohorror Fables: Redemptive Revisions in M. Night Shyamalan’s Old (2021) and Knock at the Cabin (2023)