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

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THEME EDITORS: Anna Zatora, Dominika Staszenko-Chojnacka
MAIN SECTION EDITOR: Jarosław Płuciennik 

An issue dedicated to Professor Agnieszka Izdebska.

Co-financed by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage from the Promotion of Culture Fund.
Co-financed by the University of Lodz.

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Published: 2025-04-25

EDITORIAL

  • Horror as a Transmedia Genre — Prolegomena

    Anna Zatora, Dominika Staszenko-Chojnacka
    11-29
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/ZRL/2025/68.1/1

Issue Theme — Articles

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

    Adam Mazurkiewicz
    33-52
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/ZRL/2025/68.1/10

  • Terminological and Genological Notes on Weird Fiction and Horror

    Kajetan Poniatyszyn
    53-71
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/ZRL/2025/68.1/5

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

    Jarosław Płuciennik, Pirjo Suvilehto
    73-92
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/ZRL/2025/68.1/24

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

    Jacek Mydla
    93-114
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/ZRL/2025/68.1/25

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

    Marius-Mircea Crișan
    115-129
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/ZRL/2025/68.1/11

  • Dracula Meets the Music Video

    Tomasz Fisiak
    131-143
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/ZRL/2025/68.1/9

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

    Jadwiga Piskorska
    145-159
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/ZRL/2025/68.1/13

  • Slavic Fears in Contemporary Polish Fantasy Literature

    Paulina Siedlecka-Jamiołkowska
    161-176
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/ZRL/2025/68.1/12

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

    Maciej Krauze
    177-191
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/ZRL/2025/68.1/2

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

    Julia Seltnerajch
    193-206
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/ZRL/2025/68.1/6

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

    Paweł Baran
    207-222
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/ZRL/2025/68.1/26

  • “I Hope This Hurts.” — Rhetorics of Rape in "Mouthwashing" Digital Game

    Katarzyna Matlas
    223-240
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/ZRL/2025/68.1/27

Issue Theme — Essays

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

    Anna Gemra
    243-256
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/ZRL/2025/68.1/15

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

    Szymon Piotr Kukulak
    257-275
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/ZRL/2025/68.1/16

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

    Marek Kurkiewicz
    277-294
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/ZRL/2025/68.1/17

  • 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

    Justyna Braszka
    295-306
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/ZRL/2025/68.1/14

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

    Anouk Herman
    307-321
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/ZRL/2025/68.1/18

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

    Natalia Napieraj
    323-337
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/ZRL/2025/68.1/19

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

    Magdalena Piotrowska-Grot
    339-354
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/ZRL/2025/68.1/20

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

    Mikołaj Marcela
    355-368
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/ZRL/2025/68.1/21

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

    Marta Bubnowska
    369-384
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/ZRL/2025/68.1/22

Issue Theme — Reviews

Issue Theme — Miscellanea

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

    Nina Anna Trzaska
    397-408
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/ZRL/2025/68.1/4

Main Section — Articles

  • Versification in Marcin Świetlicki’s “Polska” cycle

    Arkadiusz Sylwester Mastalski
    413-435
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/ZRL/2025/68.1/28

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

    Andrzej Juchniewicz
    437-453
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/ZRL/2025/68.1/29

  • Primary World Fantasy

    Rafał Dąbrowski
    455-469
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/ZRL/2025/68.1/30

Main Section — Reviews