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DATE OF RELEASE: 25 SEPT 2025

Zombies want brains. Vampires want blood. Cannibals want human flesh.

All monsters need feeding. Horror has been embraced by mainstream pop culture more than ever before, with horror characters and aesthetics infecting TV, music videos and even TikTok trends. Yet even with the commercial and critical success of The Babadook, Hereditary, Get Out, The Haunting of Hill House, Yellowjackets and countless other horror films and TV series over the last few years, loving the genre still prompts the question: what's wrong with you? Implying, of course, that there is something not quite right about the people who make and consume it.

In Feeding the Monster, Anna Bogutskaya dispels this notion once and for all by examining how horror responds to and fuels our feelings of fear, anxiety, pain, hunger and power.

Paperback, Publication: 25 Sept 2025, Faber & Faber
ISBN: 9780571385775

Extent: 256 pages

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Feeding the Monster: Why horror has a hold on us by Anna Bogutskaya

    DATE OF RELEASE: 25 SEPT 2025 Zombies want brains. Vampires want blood. Cannibals want human flesh.All monsters need feeding. Horror... Read more

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      Description

      DATE OF RELEASE: 25 SEPT 2025

      Zombies want brains. Vampires want blood. Cannibals want human flesh.

      All monsters need feeding. Horror has been embraced by mainstream pop culture more than ever before, with horror characters and aesthetics infecting TV, music videos and even TikTok trends. Yet even with the commercial and critical success of The Babadook, Hereditary, Get Out, The Haunting of Hill House, Yellowjackets and countless other horror films and TV series over the last few years, loving the genre still prompts the question: what's wrong with you? Implying, of course, that there is something not quite right about the people who make and consume it.

      In Feeding the Monster, Anna Bogutskaya dispels this notion once and for all by examining how horror responds to and fuels our feelings of fear, anxiety, pain, hunger and power.

      Paperback, Publication: 25 Sept 2025, Faber & Faber
      ISBN: 9780571385775

      Extent: 256 pages

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