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A PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL OF STUDIES IN HORROR AND RELATED AREAS
vol. 9, no. 1, June 2026 | ISSN 2561-5629
50 Years of The Omen
Edited by Simon Brown
Editor: Kristopher Woofter
Associate Editors: Alanna Thain, Lynn Kozak, Mike Thorn
Reviews Editor: Anne Golden | Editorial Assistant: TBA
50 Years of The Omen
Edited by Simon Brown
Editor: Kristopher Woofter
Associate Editors: Alanna Thain, Lynn Kozak, Mike Thorn
Reviews Editor: Anne Golden | Editorial Assistant: TBA
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OVERVIEW
Welcome to Monstrum 9, Issue 1, a special issue celebrating 50 years of Richard Donner's 1976 classic horror film The Omen. Guest-edited by horror scholar Simon Brown, this issue presents six feature essays on a film known as much for its chilling choral and symphonic score as its stunning scenarios of spectacle horror and dread.
Feature essays cover both literature and the moving image from a broad range of perspectives. From reorienting human and more-than-human animal perspectives in the essays by Poulomi Choudhury, Dru Jeffries, and Britt MacKenzie-Dale, to epistemological and ontological shifts in the way we think of human and more than-human ecologies in the essays by Zoë Anne Laks, Jenni Makahnouk, and William Taylor, and the Introduction by Mike Thorn, the contributions to this special issue explore the challenge of thinking beyond harmful anthropocentric and hegemonic capitalist world systems. In our reviews section, Antonio Alcalá looks at Karl Bell's The Perilous Deep: A Supernatural History of the Atlantic (2025, Reaktion Books). |
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This issue of Monstrum received key funding support from FRQSC 2021-CHZ-290295 L'horreur dans les médias et la performance.
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– Kristopher Woofter
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Contributors: Antonio Alcalá, Sergio Angelini, Simon Brown, Bruna Foletto Lucas, Regina Hansen, Laura Mee, Matt Melia, Kendall Phillips
Acknowledgments: Monstrum would like to thank our editorial board, as well as our collaborators, contributors and peer reviewers. Special thanks to Ildikó Glaser-Hille, Felicia Solomon, the Dawson College Office of Academic Development, the SCMS Horror Studies Scholarly Interest Group, and the Collective for Research on Epistemologies and Ontologies of Embodied Risk (CORÉRISC). Cover illustration 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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FEATURE ESSAYS
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INTRODUCTION: Vegan and Animal Liberation Horror Worlds
MIKE THORN
Seeding Vegetal Sovereignty: Plant-Based Witches and the Horrors of Gardening in The Manor
ZOË ANNE LAKS
Abatthorror: Tracking the Animal-Industrial Complex in Agustina Bazterrica’s Tender is the Flesh
POULOMI CHOUDHURY
MIKE THORN
Seeding Vegetal Sovereignty: Plant-Based Witches and the Horrors of Gardening in The Manor
ZOË ANNE LAKS
Abatthorror: Tracking the Animal-Industrial Complex in Agustina Bazterrica’s Tender is the Flesh
POULOMI CHOUDHURY
“Hear my tale”: Bearing Witness to the Nonhuman, from Frankenstein’s Monster to the Animal Industrial Complex
BRITT MACKENZIE-DALE
“Oh, you’d probably like it if you didn’t know what was in it”: Carnism, Cannibalism, and Repression
in Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
DRU JEFFRIES
BRITT MACKENZIE-DALE
“Oh, you’d probably like it if you didn’t know what was in it”: Carnism, Cannibalism, and Repression
in Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
DRU JEFFRIES
REVIEW
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Citizens of Ulro: A Review of Olga Tokarczuk’s
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
(Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2018)
MIRIAM RICHER
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