hi hi, here are some free horror readings/resources in pdf form and adjacent horror viewings as seen in the curriculum for the miskatonic institute of horror studies’ course on theorising horror.
- the american nightmare: horror in the 70s, robin wood ; deathdream, dir. bob clark, 1974 - horror and the monstrous-feminine: an imaginary abjection, barbara creed ; possession, dir. andrzej zulawski, 1981 - when the woman looks, linda williams ; ju-on, dir. takashi shimizu, 2002 - her body, himself: gender in the slasher film, carol j. clover ; hell night, dir. tom desimone, 1981 - bodies of fear: the films of david cronenberg, steven shaviro ; rabid, dir. david cronenberg, 1977 - why horror?, noël carroll ; horror and art-dread, cynthia freeland ; cropsey, dir. barbara brancaccio, 2009
POST UPDATE
the links on this post appear to have fried; i originally copied them directly from the miskatonic institute course page here (x) but i’ve haphazardly compiled them:
- the american nightmare: horror in the 70s, robin wood - horror and the monstrous-feminine: an imaginary abjection, barbara creed - when the woman looks, linda williams - her body, himself: gender in the slasher film, carol j. clover - bodies of fear: the films of david cronenberg, steven shaviro (the link is to shaviro’s full text the cinematic body, this essay in particular is pg. 127) - noël carroll’s philosophy of horror right here on libgen - cynthia freeland’s horror and art-dread was published within a collection of essays; the entire text can also be found and downloaded easily on libgen with freeland’s essay on pg. 189
POST UPDATED AGAIN :)
some links have broken; the others in the previous update still work:
- when the woman looks, linda williams (link is to barry keith grant’s the dread of difference: gender and the horror film, this essay is pg. 17) - her body, himself: gender in the slasher film, carol j. clover - philosophy of horror, noël carroll (this is a pdf download link and will download directly upon clicking) - cynthia freeland’s horror and art-dread as aforementioned was published within stephen prince’s the horror film; you can get a pdf of the collection through anna’s archive













