Horror Studies — Volume 5
5.1 Spring 2014
Mario DiGiglio-Bellemare, Val Lewton and the Grand-Guignol: Mademoiselle Fifi and Horror Canonicity
Murray Leeder, Victorian Science and Spiritualism in The Legend of Hell House
Simchi Cohen, The Legend of Disorder: The Living Dead, Disorder, and Autoimmunity in Richard Matheson’s I Am Legend
Matt Raimondo, Frenetic Aesthetics: Observational Horror and Spectatorship
Rebecca Duncan, Contemporary South African Horror: On Meat, Neoliberalism and the Postcolonial Politics of a Global Form
Shaun Kimber, Amelioration/Amplification: The Possibilities for Transgression within Srpski Film/A Serbian Film
Interview:
Helen Mitchell, Fear and the musical avant-garde in games: interviews with Jason Graves, Garry Schyman, Paul Gorman and Michael Kamper
Review:
Studies in Terror: Landmarks of Horror Cinema, by Jonathan Rigby, reviewed by Antonio Sanna
5.2 Autumn 2014
Special Issue, Thai Horror Film
Guest Editors: Katarzyna Ancuta and Mary Ainslie
Kasia Ancuta and Mary Ainslie, Editorial
Mary Ainslie, The Supernatural and Post-War Thai Cinema
Andrew Hock Soon Ng, Between Subjugation and Subversion: Ideological Ambiguity in the Cinematic Mae Nak of Thailand
Benjamin Baumann, From Filth-Ghost to Khmer-Witch: Phi Krasue’s Changing Cinematic Construction and its Symbolism
Natalie Boehler, Staging the Spectral: The Border, Haunting, and Politics in Mekong Hotel
Adam Knee, Reincarnating Mae Nak: The Contemporary Cinematic History of a Thai Icon
Katarzyna Ancuta, Spirits in Suburbia: Ghosts, Global Desires and the Rise of Thai Middle-Class Horror
Colette Balmain, Crypto-Cannibalism: Meat, Murder and Monstrosity in Tiwa Moeithasong’s Meat Grinder.
Reviews:
The Twilight of the Gothic, by Joseph Crawford, reviewed by Chloe Buckley
Listen in Terror: British Horror Radio from the Advent of Broadcasting to the Digital Age, by Richard J. Hand, reviewed by Carly Stevenson