Warum spielen wir digitale Horrorspiele? Der @rainersigl hat dazu mich und den @gamepsychologe interviewt und wir haben etwas über die Funktionen des Horror gesprochen. #GameStudies #HorrorStudies

https://fm4.orf.at/stories/3050182/

Even though it has been a while since I last spoke about Leroux’s world, it never really left me. I have been diving into Erik’s backstory by the hand of Susan Kay, author of Phantom. This has been my most difficult reading to date, but it doesn’t necessarily mean it’s the worst.

Read the full review at the Sheffield Gothic Blog.

https://sheffieldgothic.home.blog/2025/01/26/susan-kays-phantom-or-how-trauma-persists-from-the-cradle-to-the-grave/

#Gothic #Goth #GothicStudies #Horror #HorrorStudies #GothicShelf #Research #Academia #Scholar #ThePhantomOfTheOpera

Such talent at Writing the Occult: The Uncanny next Saturday! Meet Vicky Brewsterr, a horror academic and editor extraordinaire who regularly writes and runs LARP adventures. They'll dig into Freud's unheimlich theory from an inclusivity aspect, taking to it with a rainbow hammer. It's time to Queer the Uncanny 🌈

🔍Details: writingtheoccult.carrd.co
🎫Tix: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-the-occult-the-uncanny-tickets-1119630497959

#writersofmastodon #academicsofmastodon #horrorstudies #horror #uncanny #unheimlich #freud #lgbt2qia #lgbt #queer

Next week in Luxemburg in "History @ Play" with a talk on "Horror – Game – Politics: A History of Ideas in the Horrific"
#GameStudies #HorrorStudies #HistoryOfIdeas

https://www.uni.lu/c2dh-en/events/horror-game-politics-a-history-of-ideas-in-the-horrific/

Here’s a Halloween-friendly #BookSale from Manchester University Press.

#Books #Bookstodon #Horror #HorrorStudies #Gothic #GothicStudies #Halloween

https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2024/10/16/halloween-2024-read-list/