Doctor. Fernando Pagnoni
@FernandoPagnon3
Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina. All things horror Instagram: @grupo.grite Researcher on Baltic horror
One thing we’ve learned to appreciate about Europe is the easy rail access to rural recreational opportunities. Like hopping on a train in the city centre and—within 15 minutes—immersing ourselves in the forests, wetlands, and hillsides of Montagne de Reims Regional Natural Park.
This book re-imagines nineteenth-century detective fiction as a literary genre that was connected to, and nurtured by, contemporary periodical journalism.
Jack Nicholson as The Joker photographed by Herb Ritts
From studies examining the rise in popularity of magician narratives in mystery, to essays documenting the number of professional magicians who double as crime fiction writers, to theoretical studies analyzing the narrative overlap between illusion and literary criminals.
Modern Murders is the first comprehensive study of murder representations during the turn of the century, drawing on previously neglected archival material to explore the intellectual, cultural, and artistic contexts of the period.
Why do the most unsettling horror games feel like they remember us? Explore the secrets of hauntology, folklore, and uncanny design in my latest blog. Do our games haunt us back? drwedge.uk/2025/07/23/hor… #HorrorGameDesign #Hauntology #GameDev #IndieDev
By framing the genre as a shifting set of values, definitions, and practices, the book historicizes the contested meanings of analytical categories like class, race, gender, nation, and empire that have been applied to the forms and functions of detection.
The Mr. Cig cigarette mascot visiting hospital patients, 1948.
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Coming September 23rd! kinolorber.com/product/dan-cu… DAN CURTIS' LATE-NIGHT MYSTERIES KINO CULT #36 Perhaps no figure exerted a greater influence on 1970s television horror than Dan Curtis. Having created the daytime drama Dark Shadows (1966-71), and while producing popular primetime…
🚨 Coming January 2026! a new collection edited by Irena Jurković, Marko Lukić & Tijana Parezanović (@UniWalesPress) — exploring folklore, fear & neoliberal nightmares — stay tuned! #HorrorStudies #Folklore #HauntedSpaces #NewBook #ComingSoon
The book examines the ongoing marginalization of women within spy fiction texts, exploring the idea that this unique period in global history is responsible for the active promotion and celebration of masculinity and male superiority.
Aca-AlienFranchise-Colleagues It’s almost 50 yrs of the Alien franchise so time there was a Companion for it. Abstracts by end Sept on new directions in reading the franchise, characters, crossovers & its cultural impact are encouraged. Abstracts to me at: [email protected]
In this monograph, pop-culture historian Ed Hulse meticulously chronicles the Crime Club's Golden Age—1928 to 1940—in extensive detail, reporting on the imprint's corporate structure, personnel changes, and marketing strategies.
Arranged in a chapter-by-chapter format conforming to the structure of the three original serials, the work provides full cast and crew information, plot synopses, and production notes for all 40 episodes.
¡Superman en la Unión Soviética! Escena eliminada de la versión que se estrenó internacionalmente de Superman 4, pero está presente en el VHS argentino. Cinta algo castigada, pero se llega a apreciar.
The 'witchy' detective novel, as the author calls it, brings together the conventions of Golden Age fiction with the images and enchantments of witchcraft and paganism to produce a hitherto unstudied mode of detective fiction in the midcentury.
A compendium of reflections on the enduring impact of David Cronenberg. Focusing on a series of short films that Cronenberg directed in the 1960s and 70s, many of which have rarely been seen, this book considers the legacy of these works in their own right.
