Baltic Horror in film, gaming and literature
Editor(s) Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns
Language: English
Genre(s): Literary Criticism, Media, Film and Theatre
Series: Horror Studies
- May 2026 · 296 pages ·216x138mm
- · Hardback - 9781837723607
- · eBook - pdf - 9781837723614
- · eBook - epub - 9781837723621
The Baltic region arguably saw the birth of horror cinema when Germany produced its cycle of silent horror films. However, it is a geographical region that remains overlooked in horror scholarship. This collection aims to fill the gap with a series of essays discussing audiovisual media and literature in Estonia, Russia and Denmark, among others; and developing theoretical frameworks including postcolonialism, gender studies, issues of originality, folklore, history and geographical boundaries.
Table of Contents
List of Contributors
List of Figures
1-Introduction
Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns
Part I: Baltic History
2- Slashing Delayed: Lateness and Lithuanian Adaptation of the Slashing Subgenre in Pensive (2022)
Rawitawan Sophonpanich
3- Let the Wrong One In? Imitation and Originality in Swedish Horror Literature
Mattias Fyhr
4- Domestic horror in Anna Starobinets’ Look at Him
Lara Righi
Part II: Folk Horror
5- Reimagining Folk Horror Through national Mnemohistory: November (2017), Kratt (2020) and the Role of Folklore in Estonian Identity
Ilaria W. Biano
6- The Kratt: An AI Estonian Folktale for Our Times
Tony Perrello
7- The Devil Is in the Details: Horror Objects Through the Baltic Lens
Occulta Dama
Part III: Borders
8- The Cartography of Swamps: Making and Breaking Boundaries in Sauna
Octavia Cade
9- Haunted by Division: The Intersection of Horror, Politics, and Family in Possession (1981)
Megan Kenny
10- The Speaking Time Limit is 60 Minutes. Struggle over Discourse and Colonial Guilt in Jens Ravn’s Wolf Hour
Marc Pereyra
11- Fishy Fluidity: Dis-Ordered Patriarchy and Queer Ecology in Slavic Mermaid Horror
Brenda S. Gardenour Walter
Part IV: Aesthetics
12-From Socialist Realism to Necrorealism: The Rebellious Idiocy of Yevgeny Yufit
Andrew Grossman
13-Dancing Beside Death: A Look at the Kafkaesque and Performativity of Dreams in Algimantas Puipa’s Cinema
Amin Heidari
14- Aniara (2018): Relocating the Human in an Age of Climate Terror
B. C. Granger
15- Understanding Baltic Horror Videogames: A Comprehensive Overview
Juan Carlos García Romero
16- Streaming Soviet Russia: The Role of the Streamer in Indie Horror Games
Kat Albrecht
Author(s): Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns
Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns lectures at the University of Buenos Aires. He is Director of ‘Terror: Estudios Críticos’ (Universidad de Cádiz), the first-ever horror studies series in Spain.