Steve Jones

📢 New on the Studies in the Fantastic blog! ✨📚🌙🌀🔮💫📖

We’re thrilled to launch our new blog series—created in partnership with the Horror Studies Research Group at Northumbria University—spotlighting fresh and innovative research in horror studies.

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Several of us will be at Grindfest, introducing various films - see you there!

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Fear

Check out this podcast featuring our own Johnny Walker and @kte75.bsky.social

Pivotal: Fear -
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Call for papers: HORROR STUDIES NOW, May 28/29 2026, Northumbria University

tinyurl.com/2w2fuch6

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✍️📈✨"Survival and Recovery: Addiction and the Therapeutic Potential of Horror Writing" by Alex Herod.

Thrilled to feature this piece in our latest Issue 18!

Slasher Trash – CreatorVC Studios Inc Celebrate and explore rare and obscure slashers in the ultimate slasher documentary! Join now to get your name in the credits, reserve limited edition merch, and join unique community events! Pre-orde...

Only one day left to support the crowdfunding campaign for Slasher Trash, a documentary focusing on obscure, low-budget slasher films

Check it out:
slashertrashdoc.com?sca_ref=9391...

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Slasher Trash – CreatorVC Studios Inc Celebrate and explore rare and obscure slashers in the ultimate slasher documentary! Join now to get your name in the credits, reserve limited edition merch, and join unique community events! Pre-orde...

The crowdfunding campaign for the documentary Slasher Trash closes on 14th August

The documentary is going to focus on obscure, low-budget slasher films, so it is right up my street!

Check it out:
slashertrashdoc.com?sca_ref=9391...

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Our annual conference, Horror Studies Now, is featured in this month's issue of Dark Side Magazine

We have a new website! horrorstudies.com

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Chuffed to contribute a new essay to Eureka's new 4k release of this staggering film
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Dr Steve Jones, author of the The Metamodern Slasher Film and The Postmodern Slasher Film Podcast Episode · 3 FILMS THAT HAVE IMPACTED EVERYTHING IN YOUR ADULT LIFE: A Britflicks Podcast with screenwriter Stuart Wright · 09/07/2025 · 59m

NEW... @drstevejones.bsky.social a film scholar & a leading authority on extreme imagery & the intersections between horror and pornography, talks about his new book THE METAMODERN SLASHER FILM

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Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/2fnN...

Thanks Ken : ) ~

Publication day! Looking forward to the new I Know What You Did Last Summer or Scream VII?

Then check out my new book The Postmodern Slasher Film (or order it for your library)

30% off with the code NEW30 at @edinburghup.bsky.social

edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-pos...

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The cover of the book "The Postmodern Slasher Film" featuring a large photo of Ghostface from the SCREAM film series.

Let @drstevejones.bsky.social convince you that the postmodern slasher--like the underseen CRY WOLF, RIPPER & LOVER'S LANE--isn't just a SCREAM clone. "The Postmodern Slasher Film" is new from @edinburghup.bsky.social. Aca-priced, so email your library!
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-pos...

Members of the Horror Studies Reasearch Group will be involved in Grindfest '25 - see you there!
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28 Days Later started a zombie debate that's still raging today 28 Years Later will bring fast zombies back to cinemas, but some horror fans still think the undead should move at a snail's pace. What do the experts think?

Our own @drstevejones.bsky.social was interviewed for this article about zombies by @tomjbeasley.bsky.social

uk.movies.yahoo.com/movies/28-da...

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Conference poster depicting large pile of skulls in a dark-green hue.

Building of the Northumbria University against the blue sky.

Portrait of Julia Płaczkiewicz. She is a white woman, posed standing up, smiling on a background of neatly stacked bookshelves. She is wearing a Black shirt. He hair is dark blonde, shoulder-length.

@jplaczkiewicz.bsky.social, our PhD student, recently attended the #horrorNU conference organized by @horrorstudies.bsky.social, Northumbria University. She explored new perspectives in contemporary rape-revenge cinema, focusing on the role of affect & the transformative portrayal of female avengers

YouTube video by Horror Studies Horror Studies Now 2025

If you weren't able to join us for Horror Studies Now 2025, here is what you missed!

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The Horror Studies Research Group at Horror Studies Now 2025 #horrorNU

Spolis from the easiest peer-review gig I've had:
Q: "Should there be a new edition of Games of Terror?"
A: " Yes please"

Fantastic to see this classic finally back in print

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Thank you Graham! : ) ~

Doing my best to keep up with developments in horror research albeit from my armchair. Less stressful than doing it for a living I'm sure!
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Woman giving a conference paper

Woman giving a conference paper

Fantastic first conference paper from Abigail Hilton 'The Ghosts of Queer Girlhood: South Korean Horror and Fractured Temporalities in Whispering Corridors (1998) and Memento Mori (1999)' @horrorstudies.bsky.social

Woman giving lecture in front of screen

Woman giving lecture in front of screen

Woman giving lecture in front of screen

Woman giving lecture in front of screen

@maxgee1284.bsky.social delivering an obscenely good keynote @horrorstudies.bsky.social - so much to think about! I loooooved the 'sentient or possessed' quiz too btw.

Time to officially announce that I'm going to be presenting at the @horrorstudies.bsky.social conference at the end May, where I pretend to be vaguely knowledgeable on recent slasher movies. The Neon-Slasher, coming to an academic conference at Northumbria University near you. Come along, say hi.

Had a look at the full line up for @horrorstudies.bsky.social 's conference later this month and it is an absolute cracker. Full list here: research.northumbria.ac.uk/horrorstudie...

Also features 10 minutes on how we can study horror better.

Darren Gray (Independent Scholar), “Beyond Sight, Beyond Fear: Exploring Blindness and Visual Impairment in Modern Horror Cinema” Katherine Lucia Prentice (University of Glasgow), “Cripping the Monstrous Feminine: Reading Disability in Recent Pregnancy Horror” Catherine Pugh (Independent Scholar), “‘Like a Care Bear with Fangs’: The Benevolent Vampire as Disabled Other”

Delighted to announce that I shall be presenting at @horrorstudies.bsky.social Horror Studies Now 2025. check it out:
research.northumbria.ac.uk/horrorstudie...
I am very excited to be included in a panel with Katherine Prentice and Catherine Pugh. They are awesome #horror scholars 😁 #HorrorSky

Excited to be part of an amazing line up at the @horrorstudies.bsky.social 2025 conference!

Laptop computer screen with a PPT with the title ‘Beyond Sight Beyond Fear: Examining Blindness and Visual Impairment in Modern Horror

Adding the finishing touches to the PPT ready for the @horrorstudies.bsky.social Horror Studies Now conference at Northumbria University. I’m presenting on Friday. This is an excellent event and I can’t wait to hear everyone’s exciting #Horror research! 😁 #HorrorNU #HorrorSky

Very excited to see everyone at @horrorstudies.bsky.social tomorrow, always a thrill 👻