Mark Fryers

@mffrench.bsky.social

Writer, academic, filmmaker, animal lover, cinephile.

(8/8) The #HorrorLex2025 Year in Review concludes! Almost 800 people contributed to at least one work in the Horror Lex index in 2025 as an author or editor. But let us thank those prolific few who contributed the most to the database this past year. A big wolf awoooo you all!

Two Horror Lex 2025 Year in Review charts. The chart titled Most Featured Authors lists: Simon Bacon, Mo Moshaty,  Cullen Wade, Kyle William Bishop, Chris Fellner, Wayne Kinsey, Matt Rogerson, Scott Ryan, and Tom Weaver. The chart titled Honorable Mentions lists: Filipa Antunes, Cüneyt Çakırlar, Mark Fryers, C. Wylie Lenz, Laura Loguercio Cánepa, Robin R. Means Coleman, Kristopher Woofter, Dawn Keetley, Kristen Leer, Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Alison Peirse, Catherine Pugh, and Kim Newman.

Couple more essays for the Palgrave Handbook of the Zombie: — “Love and Romance in Zombie Narratives” by Ildikó Limpár — “Harold’s Going Stiff: Aging and Mental Health in Zombie Narratives” by Mark Fryers They can be found here: link.springer.com/referencewor...

The Palgrave Handbook of the Zombie

The handbook is an encompassing overview of zombies across cultures, histories and mediums. Useful for studies across a broad range of scholarship.

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