Very happy to be sharing the CFP for the Warwick Fear Network's "Fear Studies in an Age of Fear" One day conference! Proposals due October 25th, conference January 31st 2025 warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/…

Had a wonderful day at our Youth & Horror network event yesterday at Aarhus University. Thanks so much to all the brilliant speakers, our legendary network members & to the wonderful Mathias and Marc from Recreational Fear Lab for hosting and for being a pleasure to work with! #horrorNU

Northumbria’s brilliant Stacey Abbott giving her excellent paper on the language of horror and TV cartoons at the Youth and Horror network/Recreational Fear Lab workshop in Aarhus yesterday! Can’t wait for the book, Stacey! #horrorNU

Dr. 🐈 and I at Aarhus University yesterday, kicking off the joint workshop, When Fear is Fun, between us (the Youth and Horror network) and the brilliant Recreational Fear Lab Thanks to Marc and Mathias, all the speakers and everyone who attended - it was a brilliant day! #horrorNU

“Tak” to all who made the #WhenFearIsFun workshop in Aarhus, Denmark happen! There were talks on youth, horror, education, risky play & everything in-between. 📸: Dr Dr. 🐈 & Dr Kate Egan of Youth & Horror Research Network Research Network; Mathias Clasen & Marc M. Andersen of Recreational Fear Lab

It's a masterpiece.

Some more snaps from yesterday's Recreational Fear Lab Youth & Horror Research Network workshop! (including excellent Danish pastries)

Recreational Fear Lab Youth & Horror Research Network This Jonas and Jonas's accomplice. Jonas runs the Dystopia Haunted House attraction near Aarhus. Last year, we talked about how he could incorporate scents into the experience. And, look! Scents!

💀 Awesome spooky workshop yesterday "When Fear is Fun"! Thanks to Recreational Fear Lab X Youth & Horror Research Network ! 💀 🥜: Risky play is good for the kids and scaryfunny, there's a lot of gothic in cartoons, and Gremlins is the best children's horror movie. 👻 #horrorNU #recreationalfear

Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid. Entries are open for our BFI Film Academy DIY Filmmaking Challenge: Horror. Filmmakers aged 16-25 can submit micro-shorts on the theme ‘Retro Nightmares’ for the chance to win funding support. Apply by 1 Oct – bit.ly/diy-horror 😱