Lexington Books
Pages: 190
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Trim: 6¼ x 9
978-1-4985-8744-0 • Hardback • November 2018 • $111.00 • (£85.00)
978-1-4985-8745-7 • eBook • November 2018 • $105.50 • (£82.00)
Daniel Powell is professor of writing at Florida State College at Jacksonville.
Chapter 1: The Nature of Technohorror
Chapter 2: Pioneering Platforms: Imagination, Invention, and Innovation in Horror Cultures
Chapter 3: From Folklore to Netlore: Esoteric Digital Cultures and Remediation of Horrific Folk Narratives
Chapter 4: Transcendence in Technohorror: Digital Dissonance and the Denatured Human
Chapter 5: Technohorror and the Human Condition: Searching for Meaning in a Rapidly Changing Culture
Chapter 6: Programming Nightmares: Technohorror and Life in the Twenty-First Century
Daniel Powell shows us that the fear of the darkest part of the forest has been transformed into fear of the shadows on the digital frontier. In the concept of “technohorror,” he explores how social media and netlore have become nests for new monsters. After reading his book, you may be afraid of looking to long into your computer screen.”
— W. Scott Poole, author of Wasteland: The Great War and the Origins of Modern Horror, College of Charleston