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A PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL OF STUDIES IN HORROR AND RELATED AREAS
vol. 8, no.1, June 2025 | ISSN 2561-5629
Dossier Editor: Nina K. Martin
Editor: Kristopher Woofter
Associate Editor: Alanna Thain
Reviews Editor: Anne Golden | Editorial Assistant: Adam Hill
Dossier Editor: Nina K. Martin
Editor: Kristopher Woofter
Associate Editor: Alanna Thain
Reviews Editor: Anne Golden | Editorial Assistant: Adam Hill
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OVERVIEW
Monstrum 8, Issue 1, marking our tenth issue, presents eight feature essays, with a dossier of four essays and a respondent piece devoted to women and folk horror in four films, three directed by women, and an additional four essays on topics ranging from an alternative tradition to Western notions of Gothic (Gotî), to minority horror archetypes such as the "Black best friend" and the "Butch Latina" figure, to the contested feminism(s) of the original Stepford Wives (1975).
Edited by Nina K. Martin, the dossier on "Intersectional Trauma in Folk Horror Created by and Centred on Women" originated in a panel at SCMS in 2024. Each of the four feature essays in this dossier focuses on a different recent folk horror film. Valeria Villegas Lindvall discusses the punk, queer politics of Michelle Garza Cervera's Huesera: The Bone Woman (2022). Dawn Keetley explores weird racist legacies and "racecraft" in Mariama Diallo's Master (2022). And Nina K. Martin takes on intergenerational trauma and rage in Charlotte Colbert's eco-folk-horror film She Will (2021). A new addition to the works that formed the original SCMS panel discussion is Lauren Gilmore's essay on archival horrors and eugenics in Ryan Zaragoza's Madres (2022). Wrapping up the dossier is Kristopher Woofter's respondent piece, expanded from the original version presented for the SCMS panel to consider all four essays. |
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In our four remaining feature essays, Ali Eren Yanik argues for a disruptive "doppelgänger" to the Gothic tradition in Ereb Şemo's Dimdim, a 1966 novel written in the Kurmanji dialect; and both Zayla Crocker and Kristen Leer offer critical investigations of the "Black best friend" and "butch Latina" figures in horror, respectively, allowing for their function not only as potentially problematic stereotypes but as archetypes of minoritarian power. This year's SCMS Horror Studies SIG Graduate Student Essay Prize-winner Sarah Potvin includes compelling original archival research in her look at the complicated politics and reception of The Stepford Wives.
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– Kristopher Woofter
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Contributors: Mikaela Bobiy, Zayla Crocker, Lauren Gilmore, Karen Herland, Dawn Keetley, Kristen Leer, Nina K. Martin, Sarah Potvin, Valeria Villegas Lindvall, Kristopher Woofter, Ali Eren Yanik
Acknowledgments: Monstrum would like to thank our editorial board, as well as our collaborators, contributors and peer reviewers. Special thanks to Stacey Abbott, Sohni Chakrabarti, Cüneyt Cakirlar, Ildikó Glaser-Hille, Dawn Keetley, Nina K. Martin, Cain E. Miller, Alex Remington, Kate Russell, Carl Sederholm, the SCMS Horror Studies Scholarly Interest Group, and the Collective for Research on Epistemologies and Ontologies of Embodied Risk (CORÉRISC). Cover image and design 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 (FRQSC) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). | Monstrum est reconnaissant du généreux soutien du Fonds de recherche du Québec - Société et culture (FRQSC) et le Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada (CRSH).
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HUESERA (Michelle Garza Cervera, 2022)
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DOSSIER
Intersectional Trauma in Folk Horror Created by and Centred on Women
Edited by Nina K. Martin
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The Earth Rises as the Ashes Fall: Intergenerational Trauma, Femininity, and Rage in She Will (2021)
NINA K. MARTIN
Witchcraft, “Racecraft,” and the Demonic: Folk Horror in Mariama Diallo’s Master (2022)
DAWN KEETLEY
Oh, Bondage, Up Yours!: Punk, Urban Folklore and Folk Horror in Huesera (2022)
VALERIA VILLEGAS LINDVALL
When Records Seethe: Folk Horror, Archival Studies, and Madres (2021)
LAUREN GILMORE
Response: On the Possibility of Collective Resistance in Women-Centred Folk Horror Cinema
KRISTOPHER WOOFTER
NINA K. MARTIN
Witchcraft, “Racecraft,” and the Demonic: Folk Horror in Mariama Diallo’s Master (2022)
DAWN KEETLEY
Oh, Bondage, Up Yours!: Punk, Urban Folklore and Folk Horror in Huesera (2022)
VALERIA VILLEGAS LINDVALL
When Records Seethe: Folk Horror, Archival Studies, and Madres (2021)
LAUREN GILMORE
Response: On the Possibility of Collective Resistance in Women-Centred Folk Horror Cinema
KRISTOPHER WOOFTER
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FEATURE ESSAYS
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THE STEPFORD WIVES (Bryan Forbes, 1975)
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Body Like a Chainsaw, Mouth Like a Machete: The Black Best Friend in the American Slasher Film
ZAYLA CROCKER
Butch Latina Archetype in Science-Fiction Horror Films
KRISTEN LEER
“A little of the horror still loose”: The Stepford Wives’ Negotiated Feminisms
SCMS Horror Studies SIG Graduate Student Essay Prize-Winner
SARA POTVIN
Gothic Doppelganger: Gotî and the Specters of a People in Ereb Şemo’s Dimdim (1966)
ALI EREN YANIK
ZAYLA CROCKER
Butch Latina Archetype in Science-Fiction Horror Films
KRISTEN LEER
“A little of the horror still loose”: The Stepford Wives’ Negotiated Feminisms
SCMS Horror Studies SIG Graduate Student Essay Prize-Winner
SARA POTVIN
Gothic Doppelganger: Gotî and the Specters of a People in Ereb Şemo’s Dimdim (1966)
ALI EREN YANIK
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