Ffion Davies is a PhD student at City University of Hong Kong researching deviant masculinities and the figure of the homme fatal in early twentieth-century American crime fiction. She was awarded the Hong Kong PhD Fellowship in 2020 and served as an assistant editor of Crime Fiction Studies between 2021 and 2023. She is particularly interested in studying subversive gender representation through Crime and Horror narratives of the twentieth century.
A fantastic book for all the fans of folk horror out there, Folk Horror: New Global Pathways, edited by Dawn Keetley and Ruth Heholt, is the first publication that situates folk horror as a global phenomenon, not limited to British or American cinema. The book includes chapters that extend folk horror’s geographic terrain to Italy, Ukraine, Thailand, Mexico and the Appalachian region of the US, among them a discussion on folk horror themes in popular Thai cinema by Katarzyna Ancuta.
More information about the book can be found on the publisher\’s website.
One of the most anticipated publications of 2024 is finally out, The Edinburgh Companion to Globalgothic, edited by Rebecca Duncan, heralded as “the most substantial exploration to date of gothic fiction in the international context.” It includes a chapter on Asian Folklore and Globalgothic by Katarzyna Ancuta but there are plenty more exciting chapters to read. It’s a must have for anyone working on international, regional or indeed global gothic.
You can find more information about this book on the publisher’s website.
The special issue of The Wenshan Review on Asian Gothic, co-edited by Li-hsin Hsu and Katarzyna Ancuta has been published. The review contains four papers on topics related to Indian, Thai and Japanese literature and film, authored by Suntisuk Prabunya, Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr., Deimantas Valančiūnas and Anshuman Bora, as well as our introductory note \”Why do we need Asian Gothic?\” and a few other entries. All the articles can be downloaded from the journal website below.
Dr Henry Bartholomew is a lecturer in the Department of Literary and Translation studies at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University in Suzhou, China. His research interests include Gothic “objects” and affects, weird fiction, Algernon Blackwood, occultism, psychic vampires, and dark ecology.
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Leonie Rowland is a PhD candidate with the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies at Manchester Metropolitan University (UK), where she researches Japanese Gothic in the age of animist capitalism. Her research interests include Japanese Gothic, Japanese horror, Asian Gothic, socioeconomics, capitalist realism, literature and film