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Volume 8, Number 1, June 2025

Table of contents (11 articles)

DOSSIER—Intersectional Trauma in Folk Horror Created by and Centred on Women

  1. Sous la direction de Nina K. Martin

  1. The Earth Rises as the Ashes Fall: Intergenerational Trauma, Femininity, and Rage in She Will (2021)

    Nina K. Martin

    pp. 6–20

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  2. Witchcraft, ‘Racecraft,’ and the Demonic: Folk Horror in Mariama Diallo’s Master

    Dawn Keetley

    pp. 21–43

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  3. Oh, Bondage, Up Yours! Punk, urban folklore, and folk horror in Huesera (2022)

    Valeria Villegas Lindvall

    pp. 44–64

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  4. When Records Seethe: Folk Horror, Archival Studies, and Madres (2021)

    Lauren Gilmore

    pp. 65–83

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  5. Response: On the Possibility of Collective Resistance in Women-Centred Folk Horror Cinema

    Kristopher Woofter

    pp. 84–93

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FEATURE ESSAYS

  1. Body Like a Chainsaw, Mouth Like a Machete: The Black Best Friend in the American Slasher Film

    Zayla Crocker

    pp. 94–113

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  2. Butch Latina Archetype in Science Fiction Horror Films

    Kristen Leer

    pp. 114–134

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  3. “A little of the horror still loose”: The Stepford Wives’ Negotiated Feminisms

    Sarah Potvin

    pp. 135–161

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  4. Gothic Doppelganger: Gotî and the Specters of a People in Ereb Şemo’s Dimdim (1966)

    Ali Eren Yanık

    pp. 162–178

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REVIEWS

  1. Chrysanthemum Under the Waves by Maggie Umber, Self-published, 2024, 284 pp., $35 USD (pbk.)

    Mikaela Bobiy

    pp. 179–183

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  2. The Butcher’s Daughter: The Hitherto Untold Story of Mrs. Lovett by David Demchuk and Corrine Leigh Clark, Hell’s Hundred – Soho Press, NY, 2025, 432 pp., $36.95 USD (h/c)

    Karen Herland

    pp. 184–187

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