Vol. 68 No. 1 (2025): Horror Culture (Early View)

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REDAKCJA TEMATYCZNA: Anna Zatora, Dominika Staszenko-Chojnacka
REDAKCJA DZIAŁU STAŁEGO: Jarosław Płuciennik 

Dofinansowano ze środków Ministra Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego pochodzących z Funduszu Promocji Kultury - państwowego funduszu celowego.
Wydano ze wsparciem Wydziału Filologicznego Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego.

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Published: 2025-04-25

Issue Theme — Articles

  • Ideology Beyond the Gates of Hell. The Political Significance of Yōkai in Kaneto Shindō’s Films — "Onibaba" (1964) and "Kuroneko" (1968)

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/ZRL/2025/68.1/2
    Maciej Krauze

  • Terminological and Genological Notes on Weird Fiction and Horror

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/ZRL/2025/68.1/5
    Kajetan Poniatyszyn

  • Dracula Meets the Music Video

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/ZRL/2025/68.1/9
    Tomasz Fisiak

  • Echoes of Evil: Haunted Houses and Lingering Terrors in "The Amityville Horror" and "The Conjuring"

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/ZRL/2025/68.1/6
    Julia Seltnerajch

  • A Milestone in the Field of Dracula Studies: Elizabeth Miller and the Perception of History in Bram Stoker’s Vampire Novel

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/ZRL/2025/68.1/11
    Marius-Mircea Crișan

  • The Influence of English-Language Translations of Horror Literature in 1990–1995 on Polish Productions of the Genre Emerging After 1989

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/ZRL/2025/68.1/10
    Adam Mazurkiewicz

  • Crime in Affect. The Affective Potential of the Figure of the Vampire-Serial Killer in the Prose of Tadeusz Konwicki

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/ZRL/2025/68.1/13
    Jadwiga Piskorska

  • Slavic Fears in Contemporary Polish Fantasy Literature

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/ZRL/2025/68.1/12
    Paulina Siedlecka-Jamiołkowska

  • Haunted Sketches: Analyzing the Foundations of Horror in Early Works by Tove Jansson and Walt Disney

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/ZRL/2025/68.1/24
    Jarosław Płuciennik, Pirjo Suvilehto

  • Observe, Dismember, Overcome: "Resident Evil 4" (2005; 2023) and "Dead Space" (2008; 2023) as Video Game Extensions of the Body Horror Subgenre

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/ZRL/2025/68.1/26
    Paweł Baran

  • “I HOPE THIS HURTS.” — Rhetorics of Rape in "Mouthwashing" Digital Game

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/ZRL/2025/68.1/27
    Katarzyna Matlas

  • Rethinking Terror and Horror with Plato, Aristotle, and Shakespeare

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/ZRL/2025/68.1/25
    Jacek Mydla

Issue Theme — Essays

  • "What Comes Next" by John Katzenbach as a Psychological Horror. A Few Remarks

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/ZRL/2025/68.1/15
    Anna Gemra

  • Postcolonial Fears in a Haunted House. Themes of Trauma and the Search for Identity in Young Adult Horror Fiction "She Is a Haunting" by Trang Thanh Tran

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/ZRL/2025/68.1/14
    Justyna Braszka

  • What is Surrealism (Not) Afraid of? The Terrifying (Hyper)Reality of the Creative Nightmares of Surrealists

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/ZRL/2025/68.1/20
    Magdalena Piotrowska-Grot

  • The Auditory Dimension of Horror in the Early Prose of Jakub Małecki

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/ZRL/2025/68.1/17
    Marek Kurkiewicz

  • The Haunted House and Spectres of Fascism: Alison Rumfitt’s "Tell Me I’m Worthless"

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/ZRL/2025/68.1/18
    Anouk Herman

  • The Dark Side of Selene. The Horror of Remembering, Repeating and Working-Through in "Returnal"

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/ZRL/2025/68.1/21
    Mikołaj Marcela

  • Zombie as Victim in Film, TV Series, and Video Games

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/ZRL/2025/68.1/22
    Marta Bubnowska

  • Decaying Bodily Zones: Ecohorror in Lina Meruane’s Novel "Fruta Podrida"

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/ZRL/2025/68.1/19
    Natalia Napieraj

  • Great Old Ones of Stellar Flame. "The Truth" by Stanisław Lem as Cosmic Horror

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/ZRL/2025/68.1/16
    Szymon Piotr Kukulak

Issue Theme — Reviews

Issue Theme — Miscellanea

  • The first Polish translation of Bram Stoker’s short story "Gibbet Hill"

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/ZRL/2025/68.1/4
    Nina Anna Trzaska

Main Section — Articles

  • Versification in Marcin Świetlicki’s “Polska” cycle

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/ZRL/2025/68.1/28
    Arkadiusz Sylwester Mastalski

  • Archive and “Papers” of Erna Rosenstein — “An Attempt to Organize Experiences”

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/ZRL/2025/68.1/29
    Andrzej Juchniewicz

Main Section — Reviews