Auteur: Brandon R. Grafius

The tale of the ‘;zeal’ of Phineas, expressed when he killed an Israelite man and a Midianite woman having sex and thus stopped a ‘;plague’ of consorting with idolatrous neighbors in the Israelite …

In Reading the Bible with Horror, Brandon R. Grafius takes the reader on a whirlwind tour through the dark corners of the Hebrew Bible. Along the way, he stops to place the monstrous Leviathan in …

Religion, Culture, and the Monstrous: Of Gods and Monsters explores the intersection of the emerging field of ‘;monster theory’ within religious studies. With case studies from ancient Mesopotamia to …

Scholars of religion have begun to explore horror and the monstrous, not only within the confines of the biblical text or the traditions of religion, but also as they proliferate into popular …

Seeing the Apocalypse: Essays on Bird Box is the first volume to explore Josh Malerman’s best-selling novel and its recent film adaptation, which broke streaming records and became a cultural …

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The Evolution of Horror in the Twenty-First Century examines the intimate connections between the horror genre and its audience’s experience of being in the world at a particular historical and …

Future Folk Horror: Contemporary Anxieties and Possible Futures analyzes folk horror by looking at its recent popularity in novels and films such as The Ritual (2011), The Witch (2015), and Candyman …

Focusing on programs from the 1970s to the early 2000s, this volume explores televised youth horror as a distinctive genre that affords children productive experiences of fear. Led by intrepid …