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the future is necessarily monstrous (derrida)

#gothicafrofuturism #blackhorror #monsters by @arachleaa

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4 months ago

so grateful for the chance to speak with @mayaannik about her brilliant debut feature documentary BLACK ZOMBIE for @fangoria. at heart, the project is a love letter to Haiti and to Vodou. I can’t recommend it enough.

if you’re in Los Angeles, it’s screening tonight @nuarttheatre with a Q&A with @tananarivedue to follow 🧟‍♀️🖤 link where links go by @arachleaa

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delighted to have my latest interview with the queen @tananarivedue in the beautiful new issue of @phantasmagpress 🥀 we talk Horror Noire, haunted houses, and her forthcoming novel MAZYWOOD (out Sept 26 from @simonandschuster) about Old Hollywood, the sacrifices made by Black performers of the time, and the legacy of those sacrifices across generations 🕸️

feast at the link in bio!

#physicalmediaforever #blackhorror #horrorzine by @arachleaa

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2 months ago

I watch The Valley and all I see is The Tell-Tale Heart 👁️🫀 new on thorny 🥀 link in bio

#thevalley #edgarallanpoe #thetelltaleheart #bravotv by @arachleaa

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2 months ago

what an absolute pleasure it was to chat with @souheila.yacoub about her role as Alice in EVIL DEAD BURN for @fangoria 🔥 I think we’ve become accustomed to a particular style of final girl and I personally found the film’s approach refreshing. experiencing traumatic shit does not feel easy or empowering as you live it or even often after. as Toni Morrison said, “sometimes you don’t survive whole, you just survive”

my gratitude always to @itsanhel and @philnobilejr 🖤 link in bio by @arachleaa

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3 months ago

one thing @zefrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr knows: horror movies are a love language. delighted to have interviewed Zefyr for @fangoria about her essay collection, UNCANNY VALLEY GIRLS, which is beautiful and gutting and so profoundly needed. buy it for all your friends and lovers and check out the full interview at the link in bio specifically for our conversation about werewolves and trans experience. wolfgirls forever 🐺🌕🖤

#horror #queerhorror #horrorbooks by @arachleaa

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3 months ago

started a lil blog/newsletter situation where I look at pop culture through the lens of horror and the Gothic. it’s called thorny 🥀

first post is a follow up to the essay I wrote on Vanderpump Rules that Fangoria so generously published back in 2023, this time on Summer House, Victorian Gothic, and Black femme vengeance 🔥

links everywhere links live

#summerhouse #realityhorror by @arachleaa

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3 months ago

eat yr heart out @fangoria 💘 by @arachleaa

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8 months ago

two weeks from today, on Feb 16th, i’ll be hosting a lecture @miskatonicinstitute on gothic romance and its role in what @sherimariephd calls the “new black Gothic revival.”

the lecture comes out of my essay “To Whom The Future Belongs,” featured in DARKEST MARGINS: 24 Essays on Liminality and Liminal Spaces in the Horror Genre from @1428publishing. big thanks to the brilliant and incredibly generous @bavalamp and @cigarette_burns_cinema for having me! more details at the link in bio 🥀 by @arachleaa

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8 months ago

Thrilled to share my essay “To Whom The Future Belongs”: Gothic Afrofuturism & Speculative Sankofarration in Atlantics” will be included in Darkest Margins: 24 Essays on Liminality and Liminal Spaces in the Horror Genre from @1428publishing. Building on the work of/in conversation with @johnjenningsart @k8dee16 @leilataylor @sherimariephd and @therammellzee, this essay applies John Jennings’ and Kinitra Brooks’ concept of speculative sankofarration to @matidiop’s s 2019 gothic romance, Atlantics.

DARKEST MARGINS is a collection of essays from leading and up-and-coming genre writers exploring expressions of liminality and liminal spaces in the horror genre, across cinema, literature, television, art and video games. Taking in anthropological, psychological, and architectural liminality, and accompanied by stunning pieces of original artwork, the assembled academic and engaging essays undertake what has not been done on this scale before: to explore, map, analyze, and discuss those rites of passage, states of ambiguity or disorientation and physical waypoints in a wide variety of works across more than a century of horror media.

Covert art by the brilliant @kim_a_tron
Foreword by LEGEND @horrornonna
Coming November 2025 🥀
all my thanks to our lovely editor @bavalamp 🖤 by @arachleaa

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a year ago

@arachleaa contributes a chapter to #DarkestMargins ' Anthropology section

“To Whom The Future Belongs”: Gothic Afrofuturism & Speculative Sankofarration in Atlantics.

Lea Anderson is a horror scholar and freelance writer working at the intersections of Black feminism, Black horror, and monster theory. She writes the @fangoria column, Eaten Alive! where she explores the devouring Other in horror film, myth, and literature, and has appeared on the Shudder docuseries Horror’s Greatest and The 101 Scariest Horror Movie Moments Of All Time. by @arachleaa

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a year ago

a treasure trove of Jean Rollin films are up on @shudder so I wrote a guide to his filmography for @fangoria. in short, Rollin’s for the girls who just wanna take our teeth out and commune with Quetzalcoatl.

shout out to @samdzimmerman for not just keeping us fed but nourished and @itsanhel for the support and encouragement 🖤 by @arachleaa

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a year ago