Horror

(Short Story) The Perfect Woman

“There’s not some finite amount of pain inside us. Our bodies and minds just keep manufacturing more of…

Psychoanalysis & The Horror Movie

A Freudian Reading of Horror Cinema

An invitation to the dead

This week, The Mythologist travels to Romania to uncover the horrifying…

Pet Sematary gets a harrowing new trailer

Exploring the underwater horror of Aquaman: The Trench

When Geoff Johns helped relaunch Aquaman for…

The Legend of La Llorona

This week The Mythologist travels to Mexico to uncover one of the most famous ghost stories in the world

The horror of Kuchisake-Onna

This week The Mythologist explores the origins of one of Japan’s most…

IT: The Stuff of Nightmares

The horrors of growing up are at the heart of IT but what darkness exists in the childhood motifs that inspired both the book and the film? We’ve opened a box of old toys to…

Where to start with folk horror?

Witches, rituals and burning effigies: five of the best folk horror films