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The Comfort and Disquiet of Transmedia Horror in Higurashi: When They Cry...

It has been common in recent years for a Japanese entertainment property to encompass multiple forms of media. In fact, it has become unusual for a media product to not exist in more than one format....

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Jodi Arias in the Public Sphere: Rhetorics of Horror and the Monstrous...

Introduction The Jodi Arias Trial has been described as one of the most peculiar and salacious murder trials in American history.[1] In May 2013, Arias, a 32 year-old woman, was found guilty of...

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Candid Cameras: Transmedia Haunting and the Paranormal Activity Franchise –...

In 2008, Steven Spielberg received a DVD screener of Oren Peli’s micro-budget horror film Paranormal Activity; after watching it, Spielberg claims his bedroom door mysteriously locked from the inside,...

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Everything in this World is Artificial: Media Contagion, Theme Parks and the...

The Ring Franchise Figure 1. Publicity poster for Sadako 3D (2012). The circuits of transnational production sparked by Ringu (Hideo Nakata, 1998)[1] — which remains Japan’s most commercially...

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Defining Urban Fantasy and Paranormal Romance: Crossing Boundaries of Genre,...

Figure 1. Laurell K Hamilton’s Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series is one of the pioneering fiction series of urban fantasy and paranormal romance. The Emergence of Paranormal Romance and Urban Fantasy...

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Sinister Celluloid in the Age of Instagram – Marc Olivier

When The Exorcist hit theaters in 1973, televangelist Billy Graham was widely rumored to have said that evil resided in the very celluloid of that film.[1] Scott Derrickson’s Sinister (2012) derives...

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Who is the Slender Man? – Naja Later

Figure 1. Victor Surge’s Slender Man, 2009.The Slender Man is a monster that has crept into our frame of imagination in recent years. Invented on the Internet forum Something Awful in 2009, the Slender...

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Trafficking in the Zombie: The CDC Zombie Apocalypse Campaign, Diseaseability...

(Figure 1, Image from ‘Zombie campaign’, U.S. Centers for Disease Control, 2011) On May 16, 2011, the Director of the Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response for the United States Centers for...

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Volume 23, 2014

Themed Issue: Transmedia Horror Edited by Jessica Balanzategui & Naja Later   Contents 1. The Comfort and Disquiet of Transmedia Horror in Higurashi: When They Cry (Higurashi no naku koro ni) –...

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