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NANNY And Malleable Horror: A Conversation With Sundance Grand Jury Winner Nikyatu Jusu

Incorporating African folklore for a celebration of the beauty and brilliance of the African diaspora.

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Be(ware) The Swallowing: Werewolves In THE BEAST MUST DIE And GINGER SNAPS

The shift in the pathology of werewolf transformation (and appetite) through the ages.

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MASTER Gives New Meaning To Dark Academia

Mariama Diallo's Sundance debut feature.

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Be(ware) The Swallowing: Devouring Children And Fear Of The Future

Ravenous children in IT’S ALIVE, GOOD MANNERS, and BRIDE BEFORE YOU.

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Be(ware) The Swallowing: BLOOD QUANTUM

Acts of heroism are simultaneously always acts of monstrosity.

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What Black Horror Has Been, And What It Can Be: Tananarive Due On Shudder's HORROR NOIRE

"There are as many kinds of Black horror as there are kinds of horror, period."

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Speak Evil: Celebrating 30 Years of THE PEOPLE UNDER THE STAIRS

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BE(ware) THE SWALLOWING Love Will Tear Us Apart in THE SADNESS, TITANE And GANJA & HESS

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Be(ware) the Swallowing: Alien Invasion in MARS ATTACKS! And ANNIHILATION

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Be(ware) The Swallowing: Black Vampires In VAMPIRE IN BROOKLYN, VAMP And QUEEN OF THE DAMNED

Part Two: Examining the vampire-as-other narrative and how it pertains to Black stories and characters.

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Be(ware) the Swallowing Nature Bites Back: FROGS and the Ecophobic White Imagination

The fusion of absurdist ecohorror with Southern Gothic.

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Be(ware) The Swallowing: When White Girls Eat Each Other

Homoerotic cannibalism in THE NEON DEMON, JENNIFER'S BODY and RAW.

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Be(ware) The Swallowing: Black Vampires In BLADE, DEF BY TEMPTATION And SUICIDE BY SUNLIGHT

Examining the vampire-as-other narrative and how it pertains to Black stories and characters.

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Be(ware) The Swallowing: THE GIRL WITH ALL THE GIFTS

The Monster in Me is the Monster in You.

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Black Horror And The Technology Of Monsters

Gothic Afrofuturism and Black horror’s role in divining Black futures.