Medial Afterlives of H. P. Lovecraft

With contributions from 29 leading international scholars, this is the first single-volume guide to the appropriation of medieval texts in contemporary culture. Medieval After...

How digital technology—from Facebook tributes to QR codes on headstones—is changing our relationship to death. Facebook is the biggest cemetery in the world, with co...

Abstract This book charts the ways in which intermediality—the crossing of borders between film and other arts and media—can provide an encompassing, inclusive, and ...

This chapter surveys animation’s depictions of aliens and alien worlds throughout the pre-war era, with an emphasis on two common approaches: depicting the other in a conventionall...

A scientifically-precipitated, out-of-control tale of evolution set in Antarctica—it predates Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness—by a mathematician of note who also wrote scie...

The chapter gives an outline of the history of American horror across media, from prehistoric roots to postmodern slasher films and horror videogames. A specifically American liter...

A romance of the far future, in which humankind has relocated underground, where it is beset by monsters from another dimension—but love leads on. In the far future,...