Just in time for Halloween! The Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures is happy to announce the upcoming book launch for Horror and Mother/hoods in Global Cultural Imaginaries: Representation Across Literature, Film, Television and Art on Wed. Oct. 28, 2026 at 3-5 pm at Little Ghosts Books (930 Dundas St W, Toronto, ON).

To attend, please RSVP by Oct. 20, 2026 to [email protected].

Demeter Press is honoured to announce the publication of

Horror and Mother/hoods in Global Cultural Imaginaries: Representations Across Literature, Film, Television, and Art

Edited by Cristina Santos, Rachel D. Davidson, and Sarah Revilla-Sanchez Price: $55.95 CAN; Page Count: 396; Publication Date: September 30th, 2026; ISBN: 978-1-77258-596-4

https://demeterpress.org/…/horror-and-mother-hoods-in…/

Horror and Mother/hoods in a Global Cultural Imaginary is a comprehensive look at horror and its various iterations as they relate to the maternal. The chapters are timely: they rely on both well-established scholarship and new directions, with a keen eye to contemporary phenomena. It will appeal to scholars, students, and readers interested in the intersections of genre, gender, and cultural analysis. Owing to its remarkable depth and thematic range, this book may well become the defining volume on horror and motherhood.
– Zsuzsanna Lénárt-Muszka, assistant professor, University of Debrecen; co-editor of the upcoming Contemporary Maternal Subjectivities on the Page and on the Screen (Sciendo-De Gruyter Brill, 2027).

This is a much needed volume that brings together established voices in the fields of motherhood and monstrosity along with newer voices to offer insightful, much needed, and timely analyses of some of the most compelling texts.
– Bernadette M. Calafell, Ph.D., Author, Monstrosity, Performance, and Race in Contemporary Culture

Horror and Mother/hoods in a Global Cultural Imaginary is a fascinatingly multi- and interdisciplinary take on mothers and motherhoods across media, cultures, and aesthetic forms. Bringing together rigorous scholarly essays alongside creative and artistic contributions, the volume demonstrates how horror interrogates maternal figures as sites of fear, desire, abjection, and resistance. Methodologically diverse, theoretically sophisticated, and consistently engaging, the book offers something for scholars of motherhood studies, gender studies, horror studies, and monster studies.
– Zsófia Orosz-Réti, assistant professor, University of Debrecen; co-editor of the upcoming Contemporary Maternal Subjectivities on the Page and on the Screen (Sciendo-De Gruyter Brill, 2027).