Horror and Comics

Chamberlin, Barbara; Kunyosying, Kom; Round, Julia

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Chamberlin, Barbara, Kom Kunyosying, and Julia Round, eds. Horror and Comics. Cardiff: Univ. of Wales Press, 2025.
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Resource type: Book
Language: en: English
ID no. (ISBN etc.): 9781837722556
BibTeX citation key: Chamberlin2025
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Categories: General
Keywords: Collection of essays, Horror
Creators: Chamberlin, Kunyosying, Round
Publisher: Univ. of Wales Press (Cardiff)

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Abstract

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.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations and Captions
Notes on Contributors

Introduction – Barbara Chamberlin, Kom Kunyosying, and Julia Round

PART ONE: Crossing Genres, Blurring Boundaries
Multimodal Mirroring in ‘The Black Cat’ – Elizabeth Allyn Woock
Satanic Feminism and Decadent Aesthetics in Guido Crepax’s ‘Valentina’ Comics – Miranda Corcoran
The Living, the Dead and the Living Dead: Brazilian Horror Imagery and Genre Hybridisation in Shiko‘s Três Buracos – Tiago José Lemos I Monteiro and Heitor Da Luz Silva
Befriending the Past: The Genre-Bending Vanessa Comics Series (1982–1990) and its Historical Context – Barbara M. Eggert

PART TWO: Identity, Agency, Humanity
‘I’m not who he thinks I am’: Identity and Victimhood in Country Horror Comics – Matthew Costello
‘What’s one more monster?’: Articulations of Latinx Monstrosity and Whiteness in Border Town – Anna Marta Marini
‘Still pretty, ain’t she?’: The Female Gaze and the Queer Monstrous Feminine in Itō Junji’s Tomie – Keiko Miyajima
Sinister Houses and Forbidden Loves: Queer Identity in DC’s Gothic Romances – Lillian Hochwender

PART THREE: Society, Anxiety, Politics
Abjection, Ambivalence and the Abyss in EC’s New Trend Line – Alex Link
The Power of a Demon and the Heart of a Human: The Darkness of Humanity in Devilman – Meriel Dhanowa
Comics and the Horrors of Reality – Dirk Vanderbeke and Doreen Triebel
‘REALITY scarier than any boogeyman’: Shock, Exploitation, and Environmentalism in Slow Death Funnies – Christy Tidwell

Afterwords – Barbara Chamberlin, Kom Kunyosying, and Julia Round

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