
College professor by day, YA horror writer by night. Studying fear where it lives: in small towns, lost stories, found documents, and things everyone agrees not to talk about. 1980s New England dread. Dark humor. Office hours ongoing.
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The longer I study, teach, and write horror, the less interested I become in what makes something frightening.
I still care about that question. It is, after all, one of the reasons I became the Professor of Fear in the first place. But ho...
Boundaries, invasion, and the meaning of the threshold in Gothic horror.
There is something unusual about Dracula as a monster. He is powerful, intelligent, physically imposing, and capable of entering places that should be inaccessible to...
I return to certain kinds of horror without really intending to. I watch the same movie again, reread a particular story, or find myself thinking about a scene I haven't encountered in years. It is not always the horror that is considered t...
Collective Memory and the Fear of Losing Your Identity
There is a recurring premise in horror that is easy to overlook because it doesn’t initially seem supernatural. A character enters a new town and discovers that the residents recognize...
There are creepy kids in horror, and then there are annoying kids.
I’m not talking about the child at the center of the story. I’m also not talking about the kid who is creepy because the movie needs a creepy kid. This is a different categ...
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College professor by day, YA horror writer by night. I study what happens after everyone decides there is nothing to fear. Lost stories. Small towns. 1980s New England dread. Office hours ongoing.
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