Review: Women Make Horror: Filmmaking, Feminism, Genre

Edited by Alison Peirse.  (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2020. 259 pages). ISBN 9781978805118 Much has been written about women in the horror genre, either as monsters or victims, but Alison Peirse and the contributors in this book take us on an unexplored journey - the 18 chapters of Women Make Horror offer a wide …

Review: Devil’s Advocates – The Witch

By Brandon Grafius (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2020. 109 pages) ISBN: 978-1-800-34805-9 Robert Eggers' period folk horror film The Witch, or The VVitch: A New England Folktale (2016), has left its unsettling witches’ mark upon cinema. Brandon Grafius’ addition to the Devil’s Advocates series dissects the film and demonstrates the complexity of its construction. Grafius …

Review: Historical Noir

By Barry Forshaw, (Herts: Pocket Essentials, 2018. 223 pages). ISBN: 9780857301352 As one of the leading experts of crime fiction, Barry Forshaw’s Historical Noir marks the most recent entry in his Noir series, tracing the history of the sub-genre of crime fiction set in the past. Dividing the book up into thirteen chapters, Forshaw documents …