Author Spotlight

Kier-La Janisse

Kier-La Janisse is the author of House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films (FAB Press, 2012), the festival director of Monster Fest in Melbourne, Australia, the founder of the Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies, and the editor in chief of Spectacular Optical Publications.

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Carnival of Souls: “Thinkin’ Like That, Don’t It Give You Nightmares?”

Herk Harvey’s influential, low-budget horror classic Carnival of Souls is an eerie exploration of the mutability of place and the purgatorial state of dreaming.

By Kier-La Janisse

Essays— Jul 12, 2016