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Anne Rice and the making of a modern vampire Kellye McBride sublimehorror.com

Decapitations, Corpse Meltings, and Horses: Examining the Weird History Behind Stop Motion Animation Max Booth III Fangoria

Film's First Lycanthrope: 1913's The Werewolf Kelly Robinson Scary Monsters Magazine

Final Girl, Final Boy: Ash’s Imperiled Masculinity Dale Bailey The Many Lives of the Evil Dead: Essays on the Cult Film Franchise McFarland

From the Books of Wandering: Fin-de-siècle Poetics of a Supernatural Figure Aaron Worth Times Literary Supplement, December 20-28

Imagining the End of the World: A Biocultural Analysis of Post Apocalyptic Fiction Mathias Clasen Evolution and Popular Narrative Brill | Rodop

LGBTQ+ Horror Month - Our Common Confusions: Clive Barker's Books of Blood George Daniel Lea Ginger Nuts of Horror

Lord Byron’s Whipping Boy: Dr. John William Polidori and the 200th Anniversary of The Vampyre Valerie E. Weich Famous Monsters of Filmland, No. 291

Magic, Madness, and Women Who Creep: The Power of Individuality in the Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman Gwendolyn Kiste Vastarien, Vol. 2, Issue 1 Grimscribe Press

Mary Shelley’s Curse Shelley A. Kaehr, Ph.D. Out of This World Publishing

New Pulp Heidi Ruby Miller The Writer, July 2019

On the Haunted Lives of Girls and Women Rachel Eve Moulton lithub.com

Riding Out the Storms Tim Waggoner http://writinginthedarktw.blogspot.com

Romance as a Panacea and a New Generation of Intellectual Zombies in Warm Bodies and iZombie Tatiana Prorokova All Around Monstrous: Monster Media in Their Historical Contexts Vernon Press

Securing the Borders: Isolation and Anxiety in The Witch, It Comes at Night, and Trump’s America Brandon Grafius Make America Hate Again: Trump-Era Horror and the Politics of Fear Routledge

Tethered to the Closet Terry Mesnard GaylyDreadful.com

The Danse Macabre: An Essay Kyla Lee Ward The Macabre Modern and Other Morbidities P’rea Press

The H Word: How The Witch and Get Out Helped Usher in the New Wave of Elevated Horror Richard Thomas Nightmare Magazine Feb. 2019 (Issue 77)

The H Word: It’s Alive! Nibedita Sen Nightmare Magazine, March 2019 (Issue 78)

The H Word: On Cruelty Micah Dean Hicks http://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/the-h-word-on-cruelty/ Nightmare Magazine

The H Word: Proof of Afterlife Kaaron Warren Nightmare Magazine July 2019 (Issue 82)

The H Word: What We Talk About When We Talk About Horror Endings Stephen Graham Jones http://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/the-h-word-what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-horror-endings/ Nightmare Magazine

The H Word: You Really Don’t Want to Do This Lisa Morton Nightmare Magazine Sept. 2019 (Issue 84)

The Mothers and Fathers Italian Association: How Fucking Dare You? Thomas F. Monteleone Cemetery Dance #77

The Ramones' “Pet Sematary”: An Oral History Brenna Ehrlich Tidal.com

The legacy of Hill House: haunted spaces in Shirley Jackson’s novels Kellye McBride SublimeHorror.com