Horror Studies Research Group at Northumbria

Northumbria has a long-standing international reputation as the home of horror scholarship. I am now leading our newly formalised Horror Studies Research Group.

We've been busy since we launched in October 2023. Aside from running our reading group, I set up our website, Twitter/X feed, and YouTube channel. The YouTube channel features playlists of various talks, podcasts and events our members have been involved in.

We organised a multimedia exhibition - "Video Shop Horrors" - at Northumbria University's Gallery North, 26th October to 11th November 2023. Read more about that here.

We hosted a workshop for the AHRC funded Youth and Horror Network, organised by Kate Egan (Northumbria Univeristy) and Cat Lester (Birmingham University) on 7th November. 

We also won funding to host our annual Horror Studies Now conference: more details and the Call for Papers is available here.

There are lots of developments to follow, but if you want to get in touch, contact us at horrorstudies@northumbria.ac.uk

The Horror Lab Episode 1: Candyman and 90s Horror

The first episode of our new podcast - The Horror Lab -  is available to stream/download

Download directly in MP3 format here (right click>'save as').

Also available on iTunes here

The Horror Lab is a podcast recorded at Northumbria University, hosted by myself, Johnny Walker and Russ Hunter. The podcast explores key moments in horror, past and present. 

In this episode, we celebrate the 25th anniversary of Candyman (Bernard Rose, 1992), examining the film's representations of race and place, before  discussing 90s horror more broadly.

On the next episode, we will be discussing Bride of Frankenstein (James Whale, 1935) and the relationship between horror and the Gothic. 

If you have any questions, comments or suggestions about the show, get in touch with us on Twitter @The_HorrorLab 

We are going to include interviews in future episodes, so if you are a researcher working in the area and would like to participate in the show, drop us a line.

The RSS feed for the podcast is available here.