The Evolution of Horror in the Twenty-First Century

The Evolution of Horror in the Twenty-First Century examines the intimate connections between the horror genre and its audience’s experience of being in the world at a particular historical and cultural moment. This book not only provides frameworks with which to understand contemporary horror, but it also speaks to the changes wrought by technological development in creation, production, and distribution, as well as the ways in which those who are traditionally underrepresented positively within the genre- women, LGBTQ+, indigenous, and BAME communities - are finally being seen and finding space to speak.

M. Keith Booker is the author or editor of over sixty books including Mad Men: A Cultural History (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016), Tony Soprano’s America: Gangsters, Guns, and Money (Rowman & Littlefield, 2017), Star Trek: A Cultural History (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018), and The Coen Brothers’ America (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019). He is professor of English at the University of Arkansas.

John Edgar Browning is Assistant Professor of English and Education at the Savannah College of Art and Design, USA, and has published extensively on monsters. Among his many books are Dracula-An Anthology: Critical Reviews and Reactions, 1897-1920 (2022), The Palgrave Literary Dictionary of Bram Stoker (2022), New Queer Horror Film and Television (edited with Darren Elliott-Smith, 2020), Zombie Talk: Culture, History, Politics (authored with David R. Castillo, David Schmid, and David Reilly, 2015), Speaking of Monsters: A Teratological Anthology (edited with Caroline Picart, 2012), Graphic Horror: Movie Monster Memories (2012), Bram Stoker's Dracula: The Critical Feast, An Annotated Reference of Early Reviews and Reactions, 1897-1913 (2012), Dracula in Visual Media: Film, Television, Comic Book and Electronic Game Appearances, 1921-2010 (authored with Caroline Picart, 2010), and Draculas, Vampires, and Other Undead Forms: Essays on Gender, Race, and Culture (edited with Caroline Picard, 2009).

Kevin Corstorphine is Lecturer in American Literature and Programme Director in American Studies at the University of Hull, UK. Recent and notable publications include (as editor, with Laura Kremmel) The Palgrave Handbook to Horror Literature (2018), 'The Vanishing South: Race and the Ecogothic in Ambrose Bierce and Charles Chesnutt,' Studies in American Fiction, 'US Imperial Gothic', in Globalgothic, ed. by Rebecca Duncan (2023), 'The Gothic Horror Novel' in The Cambridge Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Novel and Politics, ed. by Bryan Santin (2023), 'Weird Fiction in the Twentieth Century', Twentieth-Century Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion, ed. by Bernice Murphy & Sorcha Ní Fhlainn (2022).

Brandon R. Grafius is assistant professor of biblical studies at Ecumenical Theological Seminary.

Neil Jackson is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Lincoln, UK. He is co-editor of Snuff: Real Death and Screen Media (Bloomsbury, 2016).