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Horror Studies 14.1 is out now!

Intellect is pleased to announce that Horror Studies 14.1 is out now!

The present issue of Horror Studies offers its readers articles on a range of these different types of horror, both high and low. It not only includes work on canonical women writers such as Louisa May Alcott and Isak Dinesen, but also an analysis of the popular horror comics of the 1950s.

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Aims & Scope

Horror Studies is a peer-reviewed academic journal devoted to the rigorous study of horror in all of its cultural and historical forms, from film and literature, music and dance, to fine art, photography and beyond. Seeking to advance the academic study of horror in theoretically and historically informed ways, Horror Studies is devoted to publishing high-quality articles and reviews relevant to its focus. With a strong commitment to interdisciplinarity, the journal seeks to foster fruitful dialogue on horror between a wide range of different critical and scholarly traditions.

Issue 14.1

Introduction

MARK JANCOVICH

Articles

A Marble Woman: Is the omen good or ill? Louisa May Alcott’s exposé of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s repressed individualism in her domestic horror fiction

AZELINA FLINT

Isak Dinesen’s weird voodoo novel

PETER MORTENSEN

Mind matters: Psychosurgical horror in The Great God Peter Pan and Peter and Wendy

CLAYTON CARLYLE TARR

‘This is the end of the road for science’: The mad doctor in Cold War horror comics

MICHAEL GOODRUM AND PHILIP SMITH