HORROR REVERIE symposia are presented annually, live and online, typically in the spring. The symposia are recorded and later published in the June issue of Monstrum. Registration is free.
NEWS
  • Horror Reverie 2, an online symposium celebrating 50 years of The Exorcist is available for viewing, with video recordings, a live transcript, and critical framing text in Monstrum 6.1, June 2023. More info on HR2 here. 
  • Horror Reverie 1, an online symposium celebrating 100 years of Nosferatu is available for viewing, with video recordings, a live transcript, and critical framing text in Monstrum 5.1, June 2022. More info on HR1 here.
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ORGANIZERS

Stacey Abbott is Emerita Professor in Film and Television (University of Roehampton) and is the author of Celluloid Vampires (The University of Texas Press 2007), Undead Apocalypse: Vampires and Zombies in the 21st Century (EUP 2016), and co-author with Lorna Jowett of TV Horror: The Dark Side of the Small Screen (IB Tauris 2012). She is currently a freelance writer/lecturer, specialising in the horror and gothic genres.  

​Mark Jancovich is Professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of East Anglia, and the author of many books and articles on horror and the moving image.

Lorna Piatti-Farnell is Professor of Film, Media, and Cultural Studies at the Auckland University of Technology. She is Editor-in-chief of Aeternum: The Journal of Contemporary Gothic Studies. 

Gary D. Rhodes is a Professor of Media Production at the Oklahoma Baptist University and the author of The Birth of the American Horror Film (Edinburgh UP, 2018) and many other books on horror and early cinema.

Kristopher Woofter, PhD, is Editor-in-Chief of Monstrum and editor of the recent books Shirley Jackson: A Companion (Peter Lang, 2021) and American Twilight: The Cinema of Tobe Hooper, co-edited with Will Dodson (U. of Texas Press, 2021). He teaches courses on horror and the Weird traditions in literature and the moving image at Dawson College in Montréal, Québec, Canada. Visit his research hub, The Hauntologist.
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