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Archival Anxiety in Documentary and Mockumentary Horror by Kristopher Woofter

Archival Anxiety in Documentary and Mockumentary Horror by Kristopher Woofter

Kristopher Woofter’s Archival Anxiety in Documentary and Mockumentary Horror offers a heady intellectual investigation into how films like Ghostwatch, Lake Mungo, and Unfriended capture our cosmic fears of the uncapturable. This academic study traces the genre’s evolution from gothic epistolary novels to screenlife horror, examining our fraught relationship with the cameras that document our lives—and our deaths.

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House of Wyrd by Maura McHugh: A Tarot-Infused Occult Horror That Walks the Path

House of Wyrd by Maura McHugh: A Tarot-Infused Occult Horror That Walks the Path

Maura McHugh’s House of Wyrd is an occult horror novella that uses the Tarot’s Major Arcana as both structure and sacrament. When art provocateur Aly Wyrd vanishes on the eve of her visionary project’s opening, her estranged daughter Pallas must walk the Illumination Trail—a physical journey up an Irish mountain that mirrors the Fool’s journey through the twenty-two trumps. What unfolds is a mother-daughter reckoning wrapped in the skin of a magical mystery.