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Horror Joy

Seeking Joy, Even in Horror

Horror Joy is a podcast by two university professors who take a deep dive into horror in hopes of finding joy lurking in the shadows.

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Episode 62: Nat Cassidy on Meet Your Maker

Episode 61

Suspiria (1977)

Episode 60

Ivy Grimes on Meet Your Maker

Episode 59

Terrell Dorsey on Meet Your Maker

Episode 58

Jack Finn on Meet Your Maker

Episode 57

Found Footage and The October Film Haunt with Michael Wehunt

Episode 56

Chris Dileo on Meet Your Maker

Episode 55

Man Finds Tape with directors Peter Hall and Paul Gandersman

Episode 54

Gwendolyn Kiste on Meet Your Maker

Episode 53

The Bay (2012)

Episode 52

Kayli Scholz on Meet Your Maker

Episode 51

REC (2007)

Episode 50

Clay McLeod Chapman on Meet Your Maker

Episode 49

Frogman with Director Anthony Cousins

Episode 48

Lauren Bolger and Alan Good on Meet Your Maker

Episode 47

Weapons

Episode 46

Nick Medina on Meet Your Maker

Episode 45

The Conjuring

Episode 44

Thomas Ha on Meet Your Maker

Episode 43

The Amityville Horror 1979

Episode 42

Matthew Trifan on Meet Your Maker

Episode 41

John Chrostek on Meet Your Maker

Episode 40

The Menu and Where the Soul Goes with Katherine Silva

Episode 39

Katherine "Kat" Silva on Meet Your Maker

Episode 38

Sadie Hartmann AKA Mother Horror on Meet Your Maker

Episode 37

Victoria Dalpe on Meet Your Maker

Episode 36

John Langan on Meet Your Maker

Episode 35

Paul Tremblay on Meet Your Maker - Live at Next Chapter Bookshop

Episode 34

Jake Tri (of Nightmare Soup) on Meet Your Maker

Episode 32

The Professor is In - Revisiting a Year of Horror Joy with Kevin Wetmore, Jr.

Episode 33

Meet Your Maker: A New Horror Joy Series (Trailer)

Episode 31

Final Destination 1, 2, 3

Episode 30

Never Whistle at Night

Episode 29

Black/Southern Gothic - Sinners and The Reformatory

Episode 28

Cop Horror - Se7en and Memories of a Murder

Episode 27

90s Teen Slashers - Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer

Episode 26

Buffalo, Confession, Vampire - An Interview with Stephen Graham Jones

Episode 25

Cult Horror - Hereditary and Midsommar

Episode 24

Faith Horror - Heretic and Universal Harvester

Episode 23

The Devil Made Me Do It - The Silence of the Lambs and Longlegs

Episode 22

Body Horror in The Substance and Olga Tokarczuk's The Empusium

Episode 21

Severance, Liminality, and Analog Horror (Mandela Catalog/The Backrooms)

Episode 20

The Monstrous Image – Horror in Graphic Novels (Something is Killing the Children and Universal’s Frankenstein)

Episode 19

Nosferatu and "First Word on Horror" with Philip Gelatt

Episode 18

A Horror Joy Christmas - Black Christmas and The Kit-Bag by Algernon Blackwood

Episode 17

"The Kit-Bag" by Algernon Blackwood - Read by Brian Onishi

Episode 16

Vampires - Dracula, Salem's Lot, and Midnight Mass *** With Special Guest Chris McAuley of the StokerVerse

Episode 15

Alien (1979) - An Uncanny Political Fable

Episode 14

Appalachian Folk Horror - The Blair Witch Project and Old Gods of Appalachia

Episode 13

Halloween (1978)!

Episode 12

Horror Nostalgia - The Rack with Tom Deady and Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

Episode 11

The Babadook: Queerness in the Basement with S. Trimble

Episode 10

Queer Horror with Eric LaRocca

Episode 9

Star Spangled boogaloo - Christian Nationalism 2

Episode 8

Christian Nationalism: A Horror Story

Episode 7

Zombie Talk 2: The Night of the Living Dead and Shaun of the Dead

Episode 6

Zombie Talk: An Interview with Kelly J. Baker

Episode 5

A Horror Apocalypse - Meta-Horror, Masks, and Cabin in the Woods

Episode 4

Horror (Un)masked: Paul Tremblay – a conversation with the author on his bestselling new release

Episode 3

Oh, God - Religious Horror

Episode 2

Jaws - We're Gonna Need a Bigger Pod

Episode 1

Episode 1 - What is Horror Joy?

Episode 0

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Additional Show Information

Brian Hisao Onishi is an assistant professor of philosophy at Penn State Altoona, USA. His research focuses on the intersection between environmental philosophy and continental thought, with particular emphasis on wonder. He is the author of the 2023 book, Weird Wonder in Merleau-Ponty, Object-Oriented Ontology, and New Materialism.

Jeff Stoyanoff completed both his MA in English and his Ph.D. in Medieval Literature at Duquesne University. Before coming to Penn State Altoona, he was an assistant professor of English at Spring Hill College in Mobile, AL. His research interests include medieval and early modern drama, middle English poetry, actor-network theory, and queer and gender theories. He is currently in the process of writing his first book, "Queer Networks of Medieval English Drama," which combines actor-network theory and queer temporality to both recover and recuperate queer identities in the medieval English biblical and morality plays. He is the author of numerous papers, publications, and presentations.

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Dr. Brian Onishi

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Dr. Jeffery G. Stoyanoff


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