I am pleased to share an update regarding the book Butcher Knives & Body Counts (Dark Scribe Press, forthcoming). The volume’s editor, Vince Liaguno, sent an email to contributors today with word that plans are in place to have physical copies of the book in hand in time for some exposure to librarians and booksellers at this year’s BookExpo in NYC. Dark Scribe Press plans to officially launch the book on Thursday, June 16th, at the Long Island Marriott Hotel & Convention Center in Uniondale, New York. The launch will be part of a huge mass autograph signing that night that kicks off the Stoker Weekend 2011 convention. The signing will include genre luminaries and best-selling authors as such Peter Straub, David Morrell, Douglas Clegg, Dacre Stoker, Jeff Strand, Gillian Flynn, Michael Koryta, Jonathan Maberry, and a host of others.
I must admit that with the exception of Psycho and Halloween, I am not a fan of the slasher film subgenre (and it is debatable whether the former should be included in this category), but I thought this volume was significant and wanted to make a contribution. My brief essay is titled “Slasher Films As Modern Chaos Monster Myths.” The piece touches on the ancient chaos monster which was conceived of as a threat to the established order in Near Eastern cultures, and suggests that the unstoppable slasher may represent the chaos monster myth in the late modern cultural context.
Related post:
“Long History and Many Forms: Chaos Monsters Then and Today”
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