Steve Jones

At our annual conference, Horror Studies Now, we present the Peter Hutchings Award for Outstanding Contribution to Horror Studies, in conjunction with Studies in the Fantastic Journal. Here is our 2025 winner, Katherine Lucia Prentice, who will also be joining the PhD programme at Northumbria in October. Katherine's essay 'Cripping the Monstrous-Feminine: Reading Disability in Recent Pregnancy Horror Films' is available in issue 20 of Studies in the Fantastic Here are our honourable mention...

On 27-29th May, Northumbria University's Horror Studies Research Group held our annual international conference, Horror Studies Now. For anyone who missed it, here is our annual highlight reel

Studies in the Fantastic , in partnership with the Horror Studies Research Group at Northumbria University, is proud to present the second in a series of blog posts highlighting new and exciting research in horror studies. Ami Nisa received Honorable Mention for the Peter Hutchings Award for Outstanding Contribution to Horror Studies, which recognizes the best new work presented at the Horror Studies Now annual research conference. Her essay "Rivers of Blood: Racial Capitalism and the...