Dawn Keetley

Prof @LehighEnglish; editor of the journal HORROR STUDIES; co-founder, @horrorhomeroom; author of FOLK GOTHIC; co-ed of FOLK HORROR and PLANT HORROR

[Dawn Keetley @DawnKeetley]

Very happy to announce that I'm taking over as the editor of the journal HORROR STUDIES & will be promoting all of its fab essays & contributors - and looking for more. Message or email me with ideas for articles or special issues! #HorrorStudies #horror

https://t.co/TkTvRD6xaU

[Dawn Keetley @DawnKeetley]

Great essay by @MikeThornWrites that showcases the importance of literary #horror

[Horror Homeroom @horrorhomeroom]

Great essay by @MikeThornWrites on new books by Stephen King and Peter Straub and Raymond Thoss - novels that "use literary horror both to explore our world’s widespread evils and to imagine other ways of being." #PeterStraub #StephenKing #RaymondThoss #Ligotti #horror

https://t.co/ZK3yp64zYN

[Simon Bacon @baconetti]

Series Editor copy mail of the amazing Lovecraft in the New Millenium: A Companion edited by David K. Goodin. A treat for Gothicists and Horror fans, and of course anyone with an interest in raising the elder gods or looking after a Cthulhu you might have gotten for Halloween!

[Horror Homeroom @horrorhomeroom]

The next featured essay in our open access special issue (https://t.co/nAbQtJTIwB) on dollhouses is Sarah Fevri's essay on how the dollhouse helps to negotiate (traumatic) girlhood in HBO's miniseries adaptation of Gillian Flynn's SHARP OBJECTS. #dolls #dollhouses #horror #GillianFlynn #SharpObjects
https://t.co/eLQhcjCaoN

[Dawn Keetley @DawnKeetley]

And wholly eloquent . . .

[Horror Homeroom @horrorhomeroom]

Part personal essay, part reading of FRANKENSTEIN
#transhorror #horror #Frankenstein2025
https://t.co/n8OsxJJM0J

[Carnival of Horror @HorrorCarnival]

Hokum (2026)

[Bloody Disgusting @BDisgusting]

LONGLEGS is getting a sequel, but will Maika Monroe be returning to star alongside Nicolas Cage?

Monroe tells Bloody Disgusting that she would "love, love, love" to return: https://t.co/z1CyC6kb2O

[Paul A J Lewis @Krycek_Facility]

Something dark is stirring in Lincolnshire...

We're looking for original #horror fiction rooted in the landscape, folklore, history and communities of #Lincolnshire for an anthology of #RegionalHorror stories set in the county.
(cont'd below)
#HorrorWriting #CallforSubmissions

[Dawn Keetley @DawnKeetley]

My thoughts on one of the best adaptations of AND THEN THERE WERE NONE #AgathaChristie

[Horror Homeroom @horrorhomeroom]

We're currently recording and releasing a series of podcasts about Agatha Christie's mysteries (& the ways they veer into gothic and horror) - but here's something from 10 years ago about the Agatha Christie revival (definitely still ongoing) - and what might explain it. I use the brilliant 2015 BBC adaptation of AND THEN THERE WERE NONE to illustrate what appealed then - and still appeals - about Christie's work. #AgathaChristie

https://t.co/hlQxdDRt2d

[Dawn Keetley @DawnKeetley]

One of the weakest films in the franchise is still good

[Horror Homeroom @horrorhomeroom]

It's the 30th anniversary of SCREAM this year, and so we're featuring coverage of the franchise. Here, Jaymen Neff-Strickland and Shane H. Weathers provide a retrospective of SCREAM 3 (2000), offering an interesting take on what the film does well - and not so well #Scream #Scream3

https://t.co/tL4MAwmUZs

[Dawn Keetley @DawnKeetley]

From the first @BrooklynHorror

[Horror Homeroom @horrorhomeroom]

I was at the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival last week, seeing some great films & writing review. In part because of that, I'm currently re-watching a film I watched and reviewed at the very first Brooklyn Horror Film Festival in 2016 (how can it have been that long ago??) It's really a wonderful film, not talked about as much as it should be: Lorcan Finnegan's WITHOUT NAME. And it's now, I just found out, streaming on @Shudder I highly recommend it!

https://t.co/k5z4xLkkUL

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

HBO is officially developing ‘THE BIRDS’, a new series inspired by Alfred Hitchcock's film.

Starring Sarah Snook, the series is a modern-day reimagining of the film set in Alaska with a murder mystery at the center.

(Source: Deadline)

[Horror Homeroom @horrorhomeroom]

Italian folk horror coming to @Shudder

https://t.co/LktQ0in6Jt

[Molly Blue Horror of Dawn @WhatMollySaid]

" #RobertEggers ’s #Werwulf : the real history of #Wolves and #Werewolves in #MedievalEngland "
https://t.co/E1Ss0auXsC

[Dawn Keetley @DawnKeetley]

Can't wait to have the time to read this

https://t.co/njK5wt0gsd

[Dawn Keetley @DawnKeetley]

Really loved this essay - and wasn't aware of TOTTIE before this . . .

[Horror Homeroom @horrorhomeroom]

Our special issue on dolls and their houses (https://t.co/nAbQtJTaH3) is chock full of amazing essays. In this featured essay, Alice Sage discusses a fascinating early 1980s British TV series TOTTIE, which she reads as an instance of folk gothic.

"Made by the legendary Smallfilms production duo Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin (best known for The Clangers, 1969 and Bagpuss, 1974), this stop-motion adaptation of Rumer Godden’s 1947 children’s book has become a cult classic with ‘sinister credentials’ (Ricketts)." #Tottie #dolls #dollhouses #horror

https://t.co/3z8yCviifr

[Film Updates @FilmUpdates]

Robert Eggers’ ‘WERWULF’ will be screened in 35mm beginning on Christmas Day in select theaters.

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

Willem Dafoe has seen the final cut of Robert Eggers’ ‘WERWULF’ and gives it high praise.

“It’s dark, It’s unnerving, it’s not a traditional horror... it doesn’t lean into the normal tropes and none of the traditional werewolf stories.”

(Source: https://t.co/IZOiCVxVvV)

[Dawn Keetley @DawnKeetley]

Another review from @BrooklynHorror & this was my absolute fav. Ryan Glover's SPLIT ROCK, a geological #horror that recalls Mark Jenkins' Enys Men & the 1970s TV series Children of the Stones. How can you not like it?? Coming to @Shudder on December 25.
https://t.co/mbckPLq2d8

[DAILY HORROR STUFF | Michael Sellars | Author @HorrorPaperback]

For me, Hokum has been the best horror movie of 2026. While some (admittedly very effective) horror movies have ejected plot and focused on vibes and 'inexplicableness', Hokum refuses to relinquish plot and demands a rational outcome (of sorts) and succeeds in scaring the sh*t out of us regardless.

[Dawn Keetley @DawnKeetley]

This one's a treat for found footage horror fans @BrooklynHorror #Erie #foundfootage

[Horror Homeroom @horrorhomeroom]

Another review from the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival - an excellent found footage film directed by Alison-Eve Hammersley: ERIE. It's a blend of Blair Witch Project, Creep and something entirely different @BrooklynHorror #Erie #foundfootage #foundfootagehorror #supportindiefilm #supportindiehorror #horror
https://t.co/kW2mk1VcXl