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-in-Chief: Kristopher Woofter | Editorial Intern: Marcus Prasad
Founding Editors: Mario DeGiglio-Bellemare & Kristopher Woofter
OVERVIEW
Monstrum 6, Issue 2, is  ... 
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Contributors: Emily Banks, Alexis Finc, Ibi Kaslik ... .

Acknowledgments: Monstrum would like to thank our editorial board, as well as our collaborators, contributors and peer reviewers. Special thanks to Alanna Thain, and the Collective for Research on Epistemologies and Ontologies of Embodied Risk (CORÉRISC).
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
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Illustration by Edmund Dulac for "The Bells" in THE BELLS AND OTHER POEMS (Hodder & Stoughton, London 1912)
The Cacophonic Politics of
​Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Bells”

MICHAEL J. BLOUIN
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CRIMES OF THE FUTURE (David Cronenberg, 2022)
The Imagination of Deterioration:
Human Exceptionalism, Climate Change,
and the Weird Eco-Horror of
David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future

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M. KEITH BOOKER
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BEHIND THE DOOR (Irvin Willat, 1920)
“The Finest Examples of Motion Picture Art”:
Prestige, Stardom and Gender in the Reception of
​Silent and Early Sound Horror 
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MARK JANCOVICH & SHANE BROWN
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THE KILLING OF A SACRED DEER (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2017)
The Killing of a Sacred Deer:
Affective and Temporal
Configurations of Dread
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MARCUS PRASAD
​SCMS Horror Studies SIG Graduate Student Essay Prize-Winner
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PSYCHO 1969 re-release poster
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THE WORM EATERS (Herb Robins, 1977)
A Theory of the Gag: Comedic Mechanisms
​in Exploitation Film Form

​KATE RUSSELL
The Uncanny Changes Hands: Discourse and Policy
​Surrounding Psycho and Its Move to American Television

​ALEX REMINGTON
BOOK REVIEWS
Click the book cover for review.
Meta in Film and Television Series
​by David Roche

​Edinburgh University Press, 2022
​US$125 (h/c)
Reviewer:
ERIN GIANNINI
The Myth of Harm: Horror, Censorship and the Child
​by Sarah Cleary
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Bloomsbury, 2022
US$150.25 (h/c)
Reviewer:
ERIN GIANNINI
Reanimated: The Contemporary American Horror Remake
by Laura Mee
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Edinburgh University Press, 2022
US$110 (h/c)
Reviewer: 
STEPHANIE GRAVES