Horror and Gothic Media Cultures
About the Book Series
The Horror and Gothic Media Cultures series focuses on the influence of technological, industrial, and socio-historical contexts on the style, form, and aesthetics of horror and Gothic genres across different modalities and media. Interested in visual, sonic, and other sensory dimensions, the series publishes theoretically engaged, transhistorical, and transcultural analyses of the shifting terrain of horror and the Gothic across media including, but not limited to, films, television, videogames, music, photography, virtual and augmented reality, and online storytelling.
To foster this focus, the series aims to publish monographs and edited collections that feature deep considerations of horror and the Gothic from the perspectives of audio/visual cultures and art and media history, as well as screen and cultural studies. In addition, the series encourages approaches that consider the intersections between the Gothic and horror, rather than separating these two closely intertwined generic modes.
Satanism and Feminism in Popular Culture: Not Today Satan
1st Edition
Edited
By Miranda Corcoran
February 17, 2026
This book constitutes a timely and necessary intervention in the academic study of Satanism. At the same time, the book also constitutes a vital addition to the field of Gothic and Horror Studies. Although recent years have witnessed a revival of interest in figures such as the witch, the zombie ...
Agatha Christie and Gothic Horror: Adaptations and Televisuality
1st Edition
By Stuart Richards
December 01, 2025
Agatha Christie’s work has been adapted extensively resulting in transformations that are both textual and cultural. While many adaptations are best known for being quaint murder mysteries, there are many adaptations of her work that draw on horror aesthetics. This book will look at how the growth ...
Monstrous Beings and Media Cultures: Folk Monsters, Im/materiality, Regionality
1st Edition
Edited
By Jessica Balanzategui, Allison Craven
December 01, 2025
Monstrous Beings and Media Cultures examines the monsters and sinister creatures that spawn from folk horror, Gothic fiction, and from various sectors of media cultures. The collection illuminates how folk monsters form across different art and media traditions, and interrogates the 21C ...
Screening the Gothic in Australia and New Zealand: Contemporary Antipodean Film and Television
1st Edition
Edited
By Jessica Gildersleeve, Kate Cantrell
December 01, 2025
The persistent popularity of the detective narrative, new obsessions with psychological and supernatural disturbances, as well as the resurgence of older narratives of mystery or the Gothic all constitute a vast proportion of contemporary film and television productions. New ways of watching film ...
The American Southern Gothic on Screen
1st Edition
By Karen Horsley
December 01, 2025
The Southern Gothic on Screen explores a body of screen texts that conform to certain generic conventions and aesthetics that, since the early twentieth century, have led to the construction of the American South as a space of ruin, decay, melancholy, loss, and haunting. The book considers the ...
Theorizing Stephen King
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael Blouin
January 23, 2025
Readers of all stripes will find something to appreciate in this collection, which illuminates how King’s horror literature as a media form has shifted in relation to cultural understandings over time. Many chapters touch upon how surrounding texts, such as film/TV adaptations, have played into ...
The Politics of Monstrous Figures in Contemporary Cinema: Witches, Zombies, and Cyborgs Re-enchanting the Ends of the World
1st Edition
By Francesco Sticchi
January 20, 2025
The book addresses the role of particular monstrous figures and apocalyptic scenarios in contemporary cinema and television and evaluates the political potential of horror and sci-fi narratives in our age of never-ending crises. The purpose of the book is to demonstrate how witches, zombies, and ...
Re-Imagining the Victim in Post-1970s Horror Media
1st Edition
Edited
By Madelon Hoedt, Marko Lukic
January 09, 2024
Despite its necessary centrality within the genre, the concept of the victim has not received much direct attention within the field of horror studies. Arguably, their presence is so ubiquitous as to become invisible—the threat of horror implies the need for a victim, whose function never alters, ...