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A PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL OF STUDIES IN HORROR AND RELATED AREAS
vol. 6, no.2, December 2023  |  ISSN 2561-5629​
Shirley Jackson: Intertexts and Afterlives
Edited by Emily Banks and Alexis Finc

Editor: Kristopher Woofter
Associate Editor: Lynn Kozak  |  Reviews Editor: Anne Golden
Editorial Assistants: Marcus Prasad, Nived Dharmaraj
OVERVIEW
Following from last year, each December issue of Monstrum will be a special issue focused on a guiding theme and guest-edited by leading and upcoming scholars in the field of horror and related media. Monstrum 6, Issue 2, guest-edited by Emily Banks (Franklin College) and Alexis Finc (Virginia Commonwealth University), explores the continuing influence of Shirley Jackson's work on on the popular imaginary and in the work of contemporary writers and creators, most of whom cite her as an influence. Part of the recent renaissance in studies of Jackson's work and legacy, these essays and the editors' introduction offer important intertextual readings of Jackson's work, as well as being inspiring testaments to the importance of intertextual approaches to Jackson. Issue 6.2 also welcomes new members to the Monstrum editorial team: Associate Editor Lynn Kozak, Reviews Editor Anne Golden, and Editorial Assistant Nived Dharmaraj. All content is available in downloadable PDFs. Scroll down below to browse the contents of this issue of ​Monstrum. 
                                                                                                                                              
  —  Kristopher Woofter
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Contributors: Paige Allen, Prema Arasu, Jill E. Anderson, Emily Banks, Savannah Bly Richardson, Alexis Finc, Karen Herland, Carolin Jesussek,  Ibi Kaslik, M. Sellers Johnson, and Naomi von Senff.

Acknowledgments: Monstrum would like to thank our editorial board, as well as our collaborators, contributors and peer reviewers. Special thanks to Mikaela Bobiy, Nived Dharmaraj, Marcus Prasad, Dayna McLeod, Alanna Thain, and the Collective for Research on Epistemologies and Ontologies of Embodied Risk (CORÉRISC).
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​The cover image for Monstrum 6.2 was created by Dayna McLeod.
Monstrum is published by the Montréal Monstrum Society (MMS). We are grateful for the generous support of the Fonds de recherche du Québec - Société et culture.  |  Monstrum est reconnaissant du généreux soutien du Fonds de recherche du Québec - Société et culture (FRQSC). 

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FEATURE ESSAYS & INTRODUCTION
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INTRODUCTION
Shirley Jackson: Intertexts and Afterlives

EMILY BANKS & ALEXIS FINC

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Cover for Sisters (2020)
Homes for Strange Children:
​Shirley Jackson’s Legacy
​in Daisy Johnson’s Sisters (2020)​​​

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PAIGE ALLEN
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Cover for Her Body and Other Parties (2017)
Her Body and Other Ghosts:
Embodied Horror in Shirley Jackson
​and Carmen Maria Machado

JILL E. ANDERSON

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"Out of Mind, Out of Sight" (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, 1.11, 1997)
The Forces of Darkness:
Exploring Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s
“Out of Mind, Out of Sight”
Through Shirley Jackson’s “The Missing Girl”


SAVANNAH BLY RICHARDSON
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Cover for Mrs. March (2021)
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Gothic Inheritances:
Shirley Jackson’s Legacy
in Carmen Maria Machado’s
“A Hundred Miles and a Mile”
​and
In the Dream House 


CAROLIN JESSUSEK

Murderers, Whores and Thieves:
Crime and Violence as Acts of Resistance
in Selected Works of Shirley Jackson and Virginia Feito

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IBI KASLIK
BOOK REVIEWS
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Player vs. Monster: The Making and Breaking of Video Game Monstrosity
by Jaroslav Svelch

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The MIT Press, 2023
US$26.95 (h/c)
Reviewer:
PREMA ARASU
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Queer for Fear: Horror Film and the Queer Spectator
​by Heather O. Petrocelli
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University of Wales Press, 2022

£60 (h/c)
Reviewer:
KAREN HERLAND
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Folk Horror: New Global Pathways
edited by Dawn Keetley and Ruth Heholt

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University of Wales Press, 2023
£50 (pbk.)
Reviewer: 
M. SELLERS JOHNSON
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Gothic Things:
Dark Enchantment and Anthropocene Anxiety

by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock

Fordham University Press, 2023
​US$30 (pbk.)
Reviewer:
NAOMI VON SENFF

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