This paper starts with a short overview of the critical reception of Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula and focuses its investigation on the role of the Canadian professor Elizabeth Russell Miller (16 February 1939 — 2 January ...

A horror story, a genre whose primary role is to instill fear in its audience, uses a variety of methods to achieve its goal. One of these is the skillful building of a mood using the acoustic plane. The following article ...

Surrealism brings dreams into literature, turning them into a field of artistic exploration, often revolving around nightmares. Inspired by Freud’s ideas, surrealists viewed dreams as a space of freedom where the rules of ...

Bruce F. Kawin defines horror by its recurring motifs and its primary goal: to frighten and unsettle the audience (4). Beyond its entertainment value, horror functions within a dynamic semiotic space, where spatial structures ...

The article is an introduction to the exploration of horror as a transmedia genre. Contemporary horror is growing in popularity and functions in various media: literature, film, video games, streaming platforms, comics, ...

This article examines Onibaba (1964) and Kuroneko (1968), two films by Kaneto Shindō that explore the destructive aftermath of war within the context of Japanese history and culture. Both films draw heavily on Japanese ...

Body horror, which is very often defined as a cinematic subgenre (Cherry 2009, Weismann 2021), utilizes themes of mutation, infection etc. to play on resentment towards human form. Emerging prominently in the 1970s and ...