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Horror fiction history – “Horror Fiction in the 20th Century” (Praeger, 2020) – Jess Nevins interview

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Jess Nevins regularly writes on genre subjects. He recently wrote a book on horror fiction in the 20^th century. We discussed the book and horror fiction across the world.

0:38 – Jess talks about how he got into horror fiction.

2:40 – Jess talks about non-English horror publishers.

3:49 – Jess talks about how he breaks down the book. He explores both English and non-English horror.

7:41 – Jess talks about the lineage of non-English horror.

11:38 – Jess talks about magic realism. He also talks about Asian horror literature.

13:28 – Jess talks about horrific human beings versus horrific monsters.

15:55 – Jess talks about categorizing horror and discovering new authors.

18:01 – Jess talks about Chinese and Russian horror.

19:54 – Jess talks about horror from India.

21:29 – Jess talks about horror for children versus adults.

23:14 – Jess talks about horror and national crisis.

25:41 – Jess talks about the most important horror writers.

28:12 – Jess talks about horror comics.

29:26 – Jess talks about sex in horror.

32:55 – Jess talks about sci-fi and horror.

35:54 – Jess talks about horror antagonists and the monster versus no monster debate.

37:38 – Jess goes into detail about the research for the book.

42:45 – Jess talks discovering new books during the research process.

46:56 – Jess talks about female horror writers.

51:44 – Jess talks about horror film and literature.

1:00:08 – Jess is on jessnevins.com and on twitter @jessnevins and on facebook as Jess Nevins.

Links of interest

https://amzn.to/37yFNd6

http://jessnevins.com/frontpage.html

https://twitter.com/jessnevins

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Guests: Jess Nevins

Host: Cris Alvarez

Tags: horror history, victoriana, horror, South Africa, Poe, Pierce, magic realism, Indian horror, Lovecraft, Gothics, feminist horror, children’s lietarure, Soviet Union literature, Lovecraft, Mathieson, Bradbury, manga, EC, comics, science fiction, worldcat, science fiction, transexual horror, Brazilian horror, ghost stories, Vikings, role playing game

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Supernatural studies history book – “The Spectral Arctic” (UCL Press, 2018) – Shane McCorristine interview

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Dr. Shane McCorristine received his Ph.D. in history and now teaches at Newcastle University. His focus is on the “night side” of human experience. This means the study of social attitudes towards death, dreams, ghosts, hallucinations, and so on. We spoke about his latest book on how ideas of the supernatural and ghosts were applied to 19^th century British polar expeditions.

1:19 – Shane talks about how he got into studying this subject. He was into polar fiction.

2:45 – Shane talks about how he’s laid the book out.

6:00 – Shane talks about the Shackleton expedition and the fourth presence.

11:05 – Shane talks about the public’s mystical perceptions of the arctic.

12:45 – Shane talks about ideas that the Arctic had gateways to the center of the Earth or to other dimensions or lands.

14:10 – Shane compares the supernatural to religious ideas.

17:20 – Shane talks about naval superstitions and their usefulness in maritime operations.

20:09 – Shane talks about ways in which the Inuits were represented in the media.

23:00 Shane talks about how strange it was for the Inuits to see Europeans in the Arctic.

32:00 – Shane talks about how the supernatural is created by society.

34:18 – Shane talks about the resources he used to do his research.

38:07 – Shane talks about a Dickens’ play titled the Frozen Deep about a lost polar expedition.

41:18 – Shane talks about some of the archives he used for his research.

44:45 – Shane most enjoyed being able to provide the female perspective on polar expeditions and what they meant.

51:30 – Shane conjectured how Europeans might react if Inuits showed up on their shores as explorers.

54:30 – Shane says Arctic and Antarctic exploration should not be conflated.

1:05:23 – Shane can be found at shanemccorristine.net. The book is available for free on pdf.

Links of interest

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-press/browse-books/the-spectral-arctic

https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/S/bo34163665.html

https://www.shanemccorristine.net/

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Guests: Shane McCorristine

Host: Cris Alvarez

Tags: ghosts, spirits, Satan, Franklin, Shackleton, arctic, middle ages, supernatural, Vikings, Greenland, polar, Greeks, Inuit, Aurora Aborealis, Royal Geographic Society, Charles Dickens, seances, shaman, clairvoyance, Charlotte Bronte, Arthur Conan Doyle