Overview

The Baltic regionarguablysawthe birth of horror cinema when Germany produced its cycle of silent horror films. However,it is ageographical regionthatremainsoverlooked in horror scholarship. This collection aims to fillthegap with a series of essays discussing audiovisual media and literature in Estonia,RussiaandDenmark, among others; and developing theoretical frameworks includingpostcolonialism, gender studies, issues of originality, folklore,historyand geographical boundaries.

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Author:   Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns
Publisher:   University of Wales Press
Imprint:   University of Wales Press
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781837723607

ISBN 10:   1837723605
Pages:   296
Publication Date:   15 May 2026
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents List of Contributors List of Figures 1-Introduction Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns Part I: Baltic History 2- Slashing Delayed: Lateness and Lithuanian Adaptation of the Slashing Subgenre in Pensive (2022) Rawitawan Sophonpanich 3- Let the Wrong One In? Imitation and Originality in Swedish Horror Literature Mattias Fyhr 4- Domestic horror in Anna Starobinets’ Look at Him Lara Righi Part II: Folk Horror 5- Reimagining Folk Horror Through national Mnemohistory: November (2017), Kratt (2020) and the Role of Folklore in Estonian Identity Ilaria W. Biano 6- The Kratt: An AI Estonian Folktale for Our Times Tony Perrello 7- The Devil Is in the Details: Horror Objects Through the Baltic Lens Occulta Dama Part III: Borders 8- The Cartography of Swamps: Making and Breaking Boundaries in Sauna Octavia Cade 9- Haunted by Division: The Intersection of Horror, Politics, and Family in Possession (1981) Megan Kenny 10- The Speaking Time Limit is 60 Minutes. Struggle over Discourse and Colonial Guilt in Jens Ravn’s Wolf Hour Marc Pereyra 11- Fishy Fluidity: Dis-Ordered Patriarchy and Queer Ecology in Slavic Mermaid Horror Brenda S. Gardenour Walter Part IV: Aesthetics 12-From Socialist Realism to Necrorealism: The Rebellious Idiocy of Yevgeny Yufit Andrew Grossman 13-Dancing Beside Death: A Look at the Kafkaesque and Performativity of Dreams in Algimantas Puipa’s Cinema Amin Heidari 14- Aniara (2018): Relocating the Human in an Age of Climate Terror B. C. Granger 15- Understanding Baltic Horror Videogames: A Comprehensive Overview Juan Carlos García Romero 16- Streaming Soviet Russia: The Role of the Streamer in Indie Horror Games Kat Albrecht

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Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns is professor at the University of Buenos Aires. He is director of ""Terror: Estudios Críticos"" at Universidad de Cádiz, the first-ever horror studies series in Spain.

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