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.
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
Thomas Leonard Shaw is a queer, liminal poet-theorist and a faculty member at the Department of English and Comparative Literature, UP Diliman. His latest publication is an essay on the representation of Siargao and islandic space in several chosen films, published in Environment, Media, and Popular Culture in Southeast Asia (Springer). Thomas has several upcoming publications on Philippine gothic literature and Philippine horror cinema. His research interests include but are not limited to: gothic and horror studies, memory studies, and Philippine literature.
Dr Runa Chakraborty Paunksnis teaches at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities at Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania. Her academic interests include gender, caste, media representations and subaltern literature. Her scholarly articles have been published in peer-reviewed journals including South Asian Popular Culture and South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, and in several edited book collections. She co-edited Gender, Cinema, Streaming Platforms: Shifting Frames in Neoliberal India (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023). She was awarded a fellowship for a collaborative research project Manly Matters, granted by the Humboldt Foundation, Germany and she was also a Visiting Fellow at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. She has participated in Erasmus + teaching programmes. She is a member of COST Platform Work Inclusion Living Lab (P-WILL) project. Runa is a creative writer and translator. Her translated stories have been published by Orient Blackswan and Sahitya Akademi, Delhi.
Dr Sarunas Paunksnis is Professor in Digital Culture, Communication and Media Research Group, Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Kaunas University of Technology in Kaunas, Lithuania. His current research interests include new media, Indian cinema, posthumanism, digital humanities, science and technology studies, cultural theory, postcolonial theory. A Fulbright and Chevening alumnus, he did research at Columbia University, New York, SOAS, University of London as well as at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India on numerous occasions. He is an editor of \”Dislocating Globality: Deterritorialization, Difference and Resistance\” (Brill, 2016), an author of \”Dark Fear, Eerie Cities: New Hindi Cinema in Neoliberal India\” (Oxford University Press, 2019), and a co-editor of \”Gender, Cinema, Streaming Platforms: Shifting Frames in Neoliberal India\” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023).
Dr Lindsay Nelson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and Economics at Meiji University in Japan. Her work has appeared in Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema, East Asian Journal of Popular Culture, and Japanese Studies. She is the author of Circulating Fear: Japanese Horror, Fractured Realities, and New Media (Lexington Books, 2021). Her full CV can be found at 
Jenevieve Van-Veda is a PhD student studying Literature at Aberystwyth University, UK. Focusing on the Gothic idiom within Japan, including the global exchanges and resulting cultural contortions that have developed from this. Research interests include Japanese ghosts, folklore, and the global Gothic imagination. She has presented at numerous conferences, festivals, alternative events, and has been invited as a guest speaker on various podcasts. She has also written a chapter for the Gothic Handbook published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2020.