The cover of the book "Clowns in Horror: A Film & Television Guide" featuring a close-up of a demented clown's face as he cries tears of blood.
Beep Beep, kiddos! Glenn Tolle is here to ruin your adulthood just like Pennywise (or Art, if you're a young'un) ruined your childhood. "Clowns in Horror: A Film & Television Guide" is now out from @mcfarland.bsky.social.
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Joseph Dimacchia notes that in Miller's books and Ferrara's films, incl. THE ADDICTION, characters are granted "willpower to live presently in a decaying body traversing a decaying world. "Cinematic Perversity & The Literature of Henry Miller" is #openaccess #Offscreen
offscreen.com/view/cinemat...
Ooh, new stealth publication for ya👇
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On the left, a screenshot of the essay "Reading Circular Ruins of Fiction and Twin Peaks Thirty Years Later," in plain text.
On the right, an image from TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN, featuring three primary characters (Agents Cooper and Cole in black suits and Diane in a shocking red bob wig) standing together against an inky black background and looking head very seriously.
"When you get there, you will already be there." Maria M. Carrión revisits her 30-year-old essay on TWIN PEAKS as literature and finds that David Lynch's multi-media labyrinth still has the capacity to twist us up. #openaccess at @litfilmquarterly.bsky.social.
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On the left, the cover of issue 10.2 of Screen Bodies featuring an image of Sue (Margaret Qualley) from the film THE SUBSTANCE, laughing/crying at her toothless image in the mirror.
On the right, a famous image from SAW (2004) in which a woman's head is enveloped in a giant iron torture mechanism, known as the "reverse bear trap."
The latest issue of Screen Bodies cowers in awe of the monstrous-feminine in THE SUBSTANCE, the SAW series, and New French Extremity cannibal films. #MeganKenny #ChaseBucklew #LouisaJoy @berghahnbooks.bsky.social
www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal...
On the left, a screenshot of the article "Becoming monstrous: Beauty norms, body image, and discursive limits on compassion in The Substance" in plain text.
On the right, an image of Sue (Margaret Qualley) from the film THE SUBSTANCE. Sue is looking pretty and bubbly in her pink aerobics studio and blows a kiss toward the audience.
"You're the only part of me I don't hate." Phillip Joy's new article pulls together beauty culture, affect theory, and one big chicken carcass to discuss THE SUBSTANCE and its message about fat phobia. #openaccess from Nutrition & Dietetics @dietitiansaus.bsky.social.
doi.org/10.1111/1747...
Read Grim's Real Fake issue here (and all other issues): anatomyofascream.wordpress.com/grim-2/
#openaccess #horrorcommunity #horrorsky #foundfootage #foundfootagefebruary #horrormovies #writersky #analoghorror
The cover of the book "Global Cult Cinemas: Decolonizing Cult Film Studies" featuring an image from the 1967 Mexican film SANTO VS. THE MARTIAN INVASION, in which a luchadore-looking figure holding a ray-gun against a space background.
Cult isn't purely Anglo. Sometimes it's Czech or Indonesian or Brazilian, or involves a ray-gun toting luchadore fighting Martians, olé! "Global Cult Cinema" collects 'em all. #DoloresTierney #IainRobertSmith #ShrutiNarayanswamy @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social
www.bloomsbury.com/us/global-cu...
On the left, a screenshot of the article "From Analog to Interactive Haunting: Fake Documentary "Q" and the Remediation of Japanese Horror" in plain text.
On the right, an image from the same series in which a creepy person's face is seen on an elevator camera, partially obscured by a video glitch.
Found footage alert: @newsfromnihon.bsky.social watches hours of the YouTube series Fake Documentary "Q" and talks about its stories of haunted media, inherited directly from the Sadakos of J-horror's past. Get it at @projectmuse.bsky.social @jcmsjournal.bsky.social .
muse.jhu.edu/article/982201
On the left, a screenshot of the article "The (Re)Turn: Vicious Retooling of Teenager Archetypes in the Twin Peaks Revival," with an image from the TV series of a large, flat-topped rock that has some strange blue-white, supernatural-looking steam coming out of it.
On the right, another image from TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN in which two young people sit in a convertible car, the boy leaning over to embrace the girl, who looks annoyed.
In TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN, the teen characters are "weathered, tired, violently angry, constantly on the verge of (if not actually) lashing out." Read Tyler Thier's essay on David Lynch's taking the shine off his young'uns' bloom. #Openaccess #BrightLightsFilm
brightlightsfilm.com/the-return-v...
A screenshot of the blog entry for "What We're NOT Writing About in Horror Academia, 2026 Edition" featuring a cartoon drawing of a werewolf professor writing a letter with a quill pen.
The 2026 edition of "What We're NOT Writing About in Horror Academia" is up. Five free thesis ideas from PG-13 scares to fad diets to cringe horror, with hand-selected inspo pieces ready to read from @aaronrodriguezs.bsky.social @sarahstubbssays.bsky.social + more.
horrorlex.com/blog/what-we...
A cartoon drawing of a wolf dressed like a university professor in a tweed jacket and glasses, using a pointer at a chalkboard in academic fashion.
Site update is in! Now you can find late 2025/early 2026 sources. Search new keywords "Lloyd Kaufman" "Shirley Jackson" and "desktop films." And welcome to 25 new journals and pubs like @maifeminism.bsky.social @jlpopculture.bsky.social @digest-journal.bsky.social @mesonpress.bsky.social . Awooo!
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On the left, the cover of the book "Sticky Films," with a photo collage of things that are sticky (like a bottle of glue and rolls of tape) with bright pops of pink.
On the right, an image from the 2021 film CENSOR in which a brown-haired White woman stands against an emerald green-lit forest, her cream-colored nightgown streaked with blood.
The media-minded mavens of @mesonpress.bsky.social have a new #openaccess book about charged and textured cinema, "Sticky Films." Download to read Julia Willms' chapter on haptic imagery, snuff films & the emotion of disgust in 2021's CENSOR. Ed. @poodlesnygg.bsky.social
meson.press/books/sticky...
On the left, the cover of the book "Hannibal Lecter: A Life" with a large drawing of a slice of pie on a plate. The pie looks like it's made of meat, topped with meringue.
On the right, Anthony Hopkins glares straight at the camera as Hannibal Lecter, in a very close close-up, in THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (1991).
"Hannibal Lecter: A Life" is a biography of a meal of a man. @brianraftery.bsky.social's new book delves into Thomas Harris's cannibal creation, the film adaptations, and interviews with those who know him best. @simonandschuster.bsky.social
www.simonandschuster.com/books/Hannib...
On the left, the cover of the book "Unserious Ecocriticism: Humor, Play and Environmental Destruction in Art & Visual Culture" featuring a photograph of a person sitting in a pool float shaped like a pink flamingo, but they're sitting not in water but rather on top of black asphalt.
On the right, an image of a giant troll standing menacingly against a snowy and barren landscape, from the 2010 film TROLLHUNTER.
"Unserious Ecocriticism" laughs as the world burns. Contributor @pfgonder.bsky.social looks at the horror-farmer connection (yee-haw!) and @jenniferschell16.bsky.social chuckles at THE THAW & TROLLHUNTER. #openaccess from Amherst College Press @jstor.bsky.social
www.jstor.org/stable/10.39...
The cover of the book "The Legacy of Leatherface: Essays on the Texas Chainsaw Massacre Series" featuring Leatherface himself with his dirty and degraded mask of human skin and wielding a big chainsaw.
"My family's always been in meat." "The Legacy of Leatherface" traces 50 years of the Sawyer clan and their BBQ-lovin' lifestyle. Ed @shanehw.bsky.social w/ @realtopekapeople.com @jacobbabb.bsky.social and other contributors. New from @mcfarland.bsky.social.
mcfarlandbooks.com/product/the-...
The cover of the book "Technothriller: Film and the American Imagination" featuring a striated photo of a woman's eyes, wide-eyed in fear.
"They've constructed eyes for me, to watch the show." Soraya Murray's new book "Technothriller" sees the rise of the machines created by humankind that threaten to eliminate us, incl. in DEMON SEED, EX MACHINA, WESTWORLD, and M3GAN. @mitpress.bsky.social
mitpress.mit.edu/978026205101...
The cover of the book "The Dreamer's Path: Twin Peaks and David Lynch the Actor," featuring two photos of David Lynch in his role as FBI agent Gordon Cole, one from the older series and one from the newer.
"I PLAN ON WRITING AN EPIC POEM ABOUT THIS GORGEOUS PIE." Brent Simon + dozens of interviewees highlight David Lynch, the Actor, in his Twin Peaks role as the very insightful, very loud, Agent Gordon Cole. New from TuckerDS Press. @scottryanfmp.bsky.social
www.tuckerdspress.com/product-page...
The cover of the book "ReFocus: The Films of Herschell Gordon Lewis" featuring a behind-the-scenes photo of the director gesturing toward a blonde actress sitting on a kitchen counter; he appears to be directing her in a scene.
Everyone wave your severed limbs! The Refocus series has a new volume on the Godfather of Gore himself, Herschell Gordon Lewis. Ed @brassupnorth.bsky.social w/ @serialmummy.bsky.social @mleeder.bsky.social @drdantils.bsky.social @edinburghup.bsky.social
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01.02.2026 01:56 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Our new podcast FOLKLORE MATTERS launches today! Have at it! #folklore
29.01.2026 11:50 — 👍 14 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0Data Note 8C: As a final caveat, the indexing at Horror Lex is done by humans (incl. @alsven.bsky.social & #emmadaigrepont), not AI. Subjectiveness abounds. Also, while we have access to the text of the vast majority of the 2025 works, it's not 100%. Take all this data as trends, not hard science.
26.01.2026 00:03 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1Data Note 8B: We changed how we calculated author/editor credits this year by weighting each work by its extensiveness/length (e.g., a book was weighted more than an essay).
26.01.2026 00:01 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0... continued: @robinmeanscoleman.bsky.social @fernandopagnoni.bsky.social @catherinepugh.bsky.social @annodracula.bsky.social
26.01.2026 00:00 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Data Note 8A: These honorees on BlueSky are: @baconetti.bsky.social @momoshaty.bsky.social @cullenwade.bsky.social @drwalkingdead.bsky.social @scottryanfmp.bsky.social @cuneytcakirlar.bsky.social @mffrench.bsky.social ...
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Two Horror Lex 2025 Year in Review charts. The chart titled Most Featured Authors lists: Simon Bacon, Mo Moshaty, Cullen Wade, Kyle William Bishop, Chris Fellner, Wayne Kinsey, Matt Rogerson, Scott Ryan, and Tom Weaver. The chart titled Honorable Mentions lists: Filipa Antunes, Cüneyt Çakırlar, Mark Fryers, C. Wylie Lenz, Laura Loguercio Cánepa, Robin R. Means Coleman, Kristopher Woofter, Dawn Keetley, Kristen Leer, Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Alison Peirse, Catherine Pugh, and Kim Newman.
(8/8) The #HorrorLex2025 Year in Review concludes!
Almost 800 people contributed to at least one work in the Horror Lex index in 2025 as an author or editor. But let us thank those prolific few who contributed the most to the database this past year. A big wolf awoooo you all!
The Horror Lex 2025 Year in Review chart titled Films/TV Having a Moment. They are: Good Manners (As Boas Maneiras) (2017), Atlantics (Atlantique) (2019), Season of the Witch (1972), Twin Peaks (in all its forms), iZombie (TV series), Lovecraft Country (TV series), Scream 2 (1997), Titane (2021), and Saint Maud (2019).
(7/8) The #HorrorLex2025 Year in Review continues!
Third, these are the films that are just happily enjoying some attention. They were all written about rarely in years past but, for whatever reason, shot up the rankings in 2025 -- a subjective selection by Professor Lex.
Data Note 6A: This is based on a small number of works, and almost all are articles/essays rather than books - but that's the point. Usually it takes a few years for very new films to trickle into the academic zeitgeist, but these films were so hot, people have been writing about them immediately.
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The Horror Lex 2025 Year in Review chart titled Most Discussed *New* Films. In rank order, the films are: Sinners (2025), The Substance (2024), I Saw the TV Glow (2024), Nosferatu (2024), Frankenstein (2025), Weapons (2025), 28 Years Later (2024), Presence (2024), and The Shrouds (2024).
(6/8) The #HorrorLex2025 Year in Review continues!
Second, which films released in the last 2 years were red-hot topics? SINNERS is tops but last year's winner THE SUBSTANCE held on strong.
Data Note 5B: What juuuust got edged out? A tie between DAWN and DAY OF THE DEAD (Rank 7), thanks to a general uptick in Romero writings, and the new hotness SINNERS (Rank 8).
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