Horror and Comics: 1 (Horror Studies) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1837722552 ISBN 13: 9781837722556

Publisher: University of Wales Press, 2025

Synopsis

This collection investigates the evolution of comics and horror by analysing a range of approaches and traditions. International contributors explore how multiple aspects of comics (forms, cultures, histories) have contributed to the depiction and development of horror across many subgenres (folk horror, ecohorror, gothic romance and more); their chapters also show how horror has informed the development of comics across multiple periods, places and genres, from seventeenth-century broadsheets to newspaper strips, weeklies and contemporary graphic novels, spanning Brazil, Germany, Italy, Japan, UK and USA. By considering well-known horror comics alongside understudied ones, this book re-examines and re-energises established concepts, such as the abject, the Other and closure, applying them to diverse texts, contexts, authors and audiences, and demonstrating the potential of comics and horror to encourage innovations of form and content in each other.

About this title

About the Author

Barbara Chamberlin is Senior Lecturer at the University of Brighton. She has published on comics and horror, folklore, and walking as creative practice.

Kom Kunyosying is an independent scholar who studies visual and iconic representations of ethnicity. He has published on horror, ecology, geek culture, and the hillbilly in comics and other media.

Julia Round is an Associate Professor at Bournemouth University. She has published over fifty academic works on horror, comics and children’s literature, including the award-winning monograph Gothic for Girls (2019).

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Wales Press
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1837722552
• ISBN 13: 9781837722556
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 296
• Editor: Chamberlin Barbara, Round Julia, Kunyosying Kom