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Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.social · 1d

Never a better time to remember The Night He Came Home. @andrewgrevas.bsky.social's "Horror in Haddonfield" covers the entire HALLOWEEN series with new interviews, photos, and thoughts about the franchise's highs and lows. @horrorinhaddon.bsky.social
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The cover of the book "Horror in Haddonfield: Halloween’s Untold Stories" featuring the title in a big, 3-D yellow font and a black-and-white picture of a suburban house looking shadowy and scary.

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Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.social · 2d

Finally, a perfect coffee table book for both you AND your Tethered twin. "Pieces of US" is an official movie tie-in from #InsightEditions + author @caseengaines.bsky.social and includes new interviews with creator Jordan Peele.
www.simonandschuster.com/books/Pieces...

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Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.social · 3d

"We're not gonna make it, are we? People, I mean." Ran Sagev considers the posthuman in TERMINATOR + TERMINATOR II and what it says about our "broken system." "The Savior, the Mother, and the Terminator" is #openaccess from J Religion & Popular Culture. @ucpress.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1525/jrpc...

On the left, a screenshot of the article "The Savior, the Mother, and the Terminator: A Secular Redemptive Narrative for Technoscience-Skeptics" in plain text.

On the right, a famous image from TERMINATOR II: JUDGMENT DAY in which Arnold Schwarzenegger (as a cyborg) hangs off the back of a motorcycle and points a giant gun offscreen. The bike is being steered by a 13-yer-old boy with floppy hair.

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 5d

Did you know I'm giving a free talk next week? I'll be talking women and the Early Gothic! From writers to publishers, renegades and regulars... Come join me (donations very welcomed!)

Sunday 12th

10am - www.tickettailor.com/events/roman...

7pm - www.tickettailor.com/events/roman...

Select tickets – Women and the Early Gothic with Sam Hirst – Zoom

Women and the Early Gothic with Sam Hirst – Zoom, Sun 12 Oct 2025 - Our series of talks is funded exclusively by donations. The talks are free to access but if you can support the project and do not s...

www.tickettailor.com

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Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.social · 6d

It's just a jump to the left… "Rocky Horror: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Cult Classic" is a retrospective on the 50-year-old cult musical. Now out from Mick Rock and Tim Mohr, both who've left us but not before making their marks. @harpercollins.bsky.social
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The cover of the book "Rocky Horror: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Cult Classic" featuring a distorted image of the film's main character Dr. Frank-n-Furter (Tim Curry), a man in heavy drag makeup, including bright red lips.

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Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.social · 7d

You're not paranoid if they really ARE out to get you. @librarianchef.bsky.social & friends peek at cultural phenoms, TV like THE X-FILES and films like SOFT & QUIET in their new book of essays on pop conspiracies. @mcfarland.bsky.social @memorieschild.bsky.social
mcfarlandbooks.com/product/the-...

The cover of the book "The Lizard People Don't Want You to Read This: Essays on Conspiracy Theory in Popular Culture" featuring an illustration of a close-up eye of a green-skinned humanoid. The iris of the eye has circuitry within it.

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Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.social · 8d

There's more than one set of jaws in the sea ... Shark-horror aficionado Michael Fuchs looks at RED WATER (2003) & other texts that showcase the bull shark "unsettling distinctions between land & sea, safety & danger, human & nonhuman domains." #openaccess #AtlanticStudies
doi.org/10.1080/1478...

On the left, a screenshot of the article "'Atlantic overflows: Bull sharks, inland incursions, and fictions of containment," in plain text.

On the right, the DVD cover for RED WATER (2003), a red-washed photo of a huge shark, jaws open, coming up from the bottom of the water to menace two swimmers.

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University of Minnesota Press @uminnpress.bsky.social · 9d

October has dawned—and so has our spooky sale. Ghosts and monsters, Mothra and Godzilla, horror theory and horror film, the supernatural and the speculative: 30% off our collection with code MN93980.
www.upress.umn.edu/ghosts-and-m...

Tiles with select book titles cropped surround bright-colored text against black background: Ghosts and Monsters Sale.

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Orrin Grey @orringrey.com · 9d

Also, to usher in the spooky season, there's a FREE post over at my Patreon, where I write about Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard, Willie Best and the Scooby-Doo vibes of THE GHOST BREAKERS (1940).

The Ghost Breakers (1940) | Orrin Grey Meets the Monsters

www.patreon.com

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Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.social · 9d

@blumhouse.com is the new House of Horror (if it doesn't say so itself!) Dave Schilling takes us thru 15 years of conjurings, purges, and paranormal activities in this new studio book filled with images and behind-the-scenes goodies.
www.simonandschuster.com/books/Horror...

The cover of the book "Horror's New Wave: 15 Years of Blumhouse" in large, plain text against a turquoise-colored background with a faded skull image.

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Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.social · 10d

Eleanor Johnson has a nightmare of "reproductive control, domestic violence & patriarchal oppression" and explains how films like ROSEMARY'S BABY expose it. "Scream with Me: Horror Films & the Rise of American Feminism" is new from @atriabooks.bsky.social
www.simonandschuster.com/books/Scream...

The cover of the book "Scream with Me: Horror Films & the Rise of American Feminism" featuring three photo strips of the eyes of famous women in horror movies (ROSEMARY'S BABY, THE EXORCIST, and THE OMEN) and red text.

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Warwick History Post-Doc Club @post-doc-club.bsky.social · 11d

Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

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Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.social · 11d

Blaise Balas looks at two trans representations of the '90s and finds who was beautiful and who grotesque. Read "FBI Agents, Serial Killers, and Red Lipstick: On Denise Bryson & Buffalo Bill" #openaccess @whatsleepsbeneath.com
www.whatsleepsbeneath.com/archive/fbi-...

FBI Agents, Serial Killers, and Red Lipstick: On Denise Bryson and Buffalo Bill

In the '90s, after the precedent was set over the last decade, two wildly different trans characters were brought into existence just two months apart. The first, Special Agent Denise Bryson, DEA in ...

www.whatsleepsbeneath.com

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Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.social · 11d

It's almost October, perfect time for a spirited (if unlikely!) defense of HALLOWEEN 6: THE CURSE OF MICHAEL MYERS and the Druid Curse of Thorn mythos. Read Alfonso Zavala Jr.'s new essay at @horrorhomeroom.bsky.social. #openaccess
www.horrorhomeroom.com/why-the-prod...

Why the Producer’s Cut & Curse of Thorn Captures the True Spirit of Halloween and Michael Myers - Horror Movie - Horror Homeroom

Why the Producer’s Cut & Curse of Thorn Captures the True Spirit of Halloween and Michael Myers on Horror Homeroom

www.horrorhomeroom.com

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Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.social · 12d

Riya Chawla & Preeti Bhatt see a "rich tapestry of tradition" in the costumes worn in the under-seen Indian demon flick/folk horror TUMBBAD. "Garbs of emotion: Costume as an affective medium in Tumbbad" is new from #FilmFashionConsumption. @intellectbooks.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1386/ffc_...

On the left, a screenshot of the article "Garbs of emotion: Costume as an affective medium in Tumbbad" in plain text.

On the right, an image from the film TUMBBAD in which a red-skinned Hindu demon wearing an ornate crown reaches up from the depths of a pit.

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Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.social · 13d

"Howdy Folks! You like blood? Violence? Freaks of nature?" Then get this handsome volume from Rob Zombie himself and #InsightEditions about the art and production of his HOUSE OF 1000 CORPSES.
insighteditions.com/products/rob...

The cover of the book "Rob Zombie's House of 1000 Corpses: The Making of a Cult Classic" featuring a collage of drawings of characters and places from the film, including blonde woman Baby and weird clown Captain Spaulding, with assorted other creepy things.

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Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.social · 14d

Who you calling uncivilized? Laura Hall's "Bloodied Bodies, Bloody Landscapes: Settler Colonialism in Horror" looks at Indigenous inclusion or exclusion in films from TEXAS CHAIN SAW to SCREAM. And the price is nice! New from @uregina.bsky.social Press.
uofrpress.ca/Books/B/Bloo...

The cover of the book "Bloodied Bodies, Bloody Landscapes: Settler Colonialism in Horror," featuring black, white, and red drawing of a giant human eye, staring unblinking.

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Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.social · 15d

From THE DEMON and DISTRICT 9 to FRIED BARRY, @brassupnorth.bsky.social shines light into a neglected corner of the cinema world with his new book "South African Horror Cinema." New from @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social
www.bloomsbury.com/us/south-afr...

The cover of the book "South African Horror Cinema
From Apartheid to District 9 and Beyond" featuring an image from the 2021 film GOOD MADAM in which a Black woman peers around a corner with fear in her eyes.

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Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.social · 16d

Peek under the sheet of "Ghosts & the Gothic" (Eds. @ruthheholt.bsky.social @joparsons.bsky.social) w/chapters by Katarzyna Ancuta on Asian spirits + Ardel Haefele-Thomas on specters of Black oppression in MASTER & DESCENDENT. @manchesterup.bsky.social
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526181923/

The cover of the book "Ghosts and the Gothic" in a muted aqua color, showing three ghostly figures draped in white sheets, hovering about in an empty room.

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Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.social · 17d

"I am dead to all the world. Hear me!" @old-dr-walden.bsky.social's new book poses the Count as a "cultural barometer" through wartime, the sexual revolution, Freudian panics, and the rise of the superhero. @mcfarland.bsky.social
mcfarlandbooks.com/product/drac...

The cover of the book "Dracula's Cinematic Psychohistory" featuring a vivid red and magenta fanged vampire's mouth, opened to bite.

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Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.social · 18d

Know well the condition of your flocks … Georgia Walton & @dominicokey.bsky.social look at "multispecies motherhood and humanimal horror" in LAMB and BIRTH/REBIRTH in this unique medico-horror paper. #openaccess #MedicalHumanities @bmj.com
doi.org/10.1136/medh...

On the left, a screenshot of the article "Reproductive technology's animal unconscious: multispecies motherhood and humanimal horror," in plain text.

On the right, an image from the film LAMB (2021) in which a boy-lamb hybrid child holds the hand of a human adult.

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Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.social · 25d

Olivia Zolciak makes the case that contemporary survivors like Cassie in PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN (2020) are allowed to be "more flawed and nuanced characters." Read her essay "Rhetorics of Rage" #openaccess at J Pop Culture. @pcaaca.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/jpcu...

On the left, a screenshot of the article "Rhetorics of Rage: How Women Directors Are Shifting Revenge Narratives in the Horror Genre."

On the right, an image from the 2020 film PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN showing main character Cassie, a 30-something woman dressed in a fetish-y nurse's outfit with rainbow colored hair and holding a scalpel in her hand with a wry expression.

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Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.social · 26d

Film International's front page has genre goodies: Gary D. Rhodes looks back to the blockbusting opening weekend for JAWS (1975) + David Ryan finds telltale signs of cultural pathology in the messed-up community of WEAPONS (2025).
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A screenshot of two article on the front page of Film International's website: "Satirizing Horror and Spellbinding the Social Contract: Weapons (2025) and "When Jaws Premiered; or, the Hottest and Coolest Weekend on Record."

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Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.social · 27d

"She hate me!" @shanedenson.bsky.social's new monograph on BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN is the first in @leverpress.bsky.social's film/minutes series, giving you a minute-by-minute look at the film and its context.
liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

The cover of the book BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN, with images from the film (showing Frankenstein's monster and the Bride herself) in geometrically arranged and differently colored segments.

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