The Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies:
THE VAULT
Issue # 1 - 30/10/2006

ARTICLES
Kim Newman: Irish Horror Cinema
Jarlath Killeen:  Irish Gothic: A Theoretical Introduction
John Exshaw: Jess Franco, or The Misfortunes of Virtue
Maria Parsons: Vamping the Woman: Menstrual Pathologies in Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Kevin Corstorphine: “Sour Ground”: Stephen King’s Pet Sematary and The Politics of Territory


BOOK REVIEWS
Stephen King, Cell
Christopher Frayling,  Mad, Bad and Dangerous?
The Scientist and the Cinema
Tony Earnshaw, Beating the Devil: The Making of ‘Night of the Demon'
Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted
Bernice M. Murphy, ed., Shirley Jackson: Essays on a Literary Legacy
Bernd Herzogenrath, ed., The Films of Tod Browning

FILM REVIEWS
The Omen 666 (Dir. John Moore, 2006)
The Wicker Man (Dir. Neil LaBute, 2006)
Three Extremes (Dir: Fruit Chan, Takashi Miike, Chan-wook Park, Tartan Asia Extreme,2006)
Blood for Dracula (Dir. Paul Morrisey, Tartan Video, 2005)
Isolation (Dir. Billy O'Brien, 2005)
The Proposition (Dir. John Hillcoat,  Tartan Video, 2006)
Horrorthon: Terror in the Aisles (1998 to Present)
Horrorthon 2006 Reviewed
Frostbiten (2006): Interview with the Swedish Vampire Filmmakers Anders Banke and Magnus Paulsson

MULTI-MEDIA REVIEWS
Resident Evil: Deadly Silence (Capcom, one player, Nintendo DS)
Dead Rising (Capcom, one player, X-Box 360)
The Borden Tragedy : A Memoir of the Infamous Double Murder at Fall River, Mass., 1892 (Written & Drawn by Rick Geary, 1997)
The Walking Dead Volumes 1, 2 and 3:  Days Gone Bye, Miles Behind Us and Safety Behind Bars (By Robert Kirkman & Tony Moore (Vol 1), Charlie Adlard & Cliff Rathburn (Vols 2 & 3))
Chosen  (Written by Mark Millar, Drawn by Peter Gross)

TELEVISION REVIEWS
“In Gore We Trust”: Horror and the Modern U.S. Crime Series
The Outer Limits (The Original Series, Season 1 & 2, MGM DVD, 2002-2003)
Satan's School for Girls (Dir. Christopher Leitch, 2000)
American Gothic (CBS, 1995-96, Universal Studios DVD, 2005)
Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997-2003, 20th Century Fox DVD, 2005), Angel (1999 -2004, 20th Century Fox DVD, 2006)

Issue # 2 - 17/03/2007

ARTICLES
Richard Haslam:  Irish Gothic: A Rhetorical Hermeneutics Approach
Patrica MacCormack:   Baroque Intensity: Lovecraft, Le Fanu and the Fold
James Rose:  The Dreaming and The Dreamt A Lexicon of Neil Jordan’s The Company of Wolves
Joanne Watkiss:: Ghosts in the Head: Mourning, Memory and Derridean ‘Trace’ in  John Banville’s The Sea
Niall Kitson:  Rebel Yells: Genre Hybridity and Irishness in Garth Ennis & Steve Dillon's Preacher

BOOK REVIEWS
Strange Tales, ed. Rosalie Parker
Wormwood: Literature of the Fantastic, Supernatural & Decadent, 1-6, 2003-2006
Stephen King, Lisey's Story
Emma Tennant, Heathcliff's Tale
Patrick McCabe, Winterwood
Brian J Showers, Literary Walking Tours of Gothic Dublin
Arthur Machen, Tales of Horror and the Supernatural
Tom Weaver, Science Fiction Stars and Horror Heroes: Interviews with Actors, Directors, Producers and Writers of the 1940-1960s

FILMS REVIEWS
Hannibal Rising (Dir. Peter Webber, 2007)
The Innocents (Dir. Jack Clayton, BFI  2006)
'Don't Look Now' (Dir. Nicolas Roeg, Optimum Home Entertainment, 2006)
Pan's Labyrinth (El Laberinto del Fauno) (Dir. Gullermo del Toro, Optimum Home Entertainment, 2007)
Them (Ills) (Dir: David Moreau, Xavier Palud) France/Romania 2005
Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film (Rachel Belofsky, Mike Bohusz & Rudy Scalese, 2006)
Scream Queen: An Interview with Rachel Belofsky, producer of Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Movie & Festival Director of "Screamfest", Los Angeles

MULTI-MEDIA REVIEWS
The New Video Nasties?: Censorship and the Video Game
Rule of Rose (505 GameStreet: Playstation 2, Capcom, one player, X-Box 360)
Manhunt (Rockstar Games, Xbox/Playstation/PC)
Condemned (Sega: Xbox 360/PC)
Marvel Horror: Volume One (Written by Gary Frierich, Steve Gerber et al, Artwork by Tom Sutton, Jim Mooney et al)

TELEVISION REVIEWS
Dracula (Dir. Bill Eagles, BBC Wales/WGBH Boston/Granada International, 2006)
Goldplated (Channel 4, Oct 2006)
Carnivàle (HBO 2003-2005 Seasons One and Two, Warner Home Video)
Number 13 (BBC 4, December 2006)
Garth Marenghi's 'Darkplace' (Channel 4, 2004, DVD 2007)

EVENTS REVIEWS
A Pleasing Terror: Two Ghost Stories by M. R. James.Performed by Robert Lloyd Parry on 3 March 2007 at the Tinahely Courthouse Arts Centre

Issue # 3 - 08/11/2007

ARTICLES
Mark Jancovich: Crack-Up: Psychological Realism, Generic Transformation and the Demise of the Paranoid Woman's Film
Brian Jarvis:  Anamorphic Allegory in The Ring, or, Seven Ways of Looking at a Horror Video
Kirsty Macdonald:  Anti-heroes and Androgynes: Gothic Masculinities in Contemporary Scottish Men's Fiction
Jake Huntley:  'I Want to Play a Game': How to See Saw
Coralline Dupuy:  'Why don't you remember? Are you crazy?': Korean Gothic and psychosis in A Tale of Two Sisters

BOOK REVIEWS
Jean Seaton, Carnage & the Media: The Making & Breaking of News About Violence; Joanna Bourke Fear: A Cultural History; Mark Ames, Going Postal: Rage, Murder & Rebellion in America
Jonathan Rigby, American Gothic: Sixty Years of Horror Cinema
Shaun Hutson, Unmarked Graves
Steven Hall, The Raw Shark Texts
Charlie Huston, No Dominion
Gothic NZ: The Darker Side of Kiwi Culture, eds. Misha Kavka, Jennifer Lawn & Mary Paul
Gary William Crawford, Robert Aickman: An Introduction

FILMS REVIEWS
Grindhouse: Death Proof  (Dir. Quentin Tarantino, USA 2007) & Planet Terror (Dir. Robert Rodriguez, USA 2007)
Halloween (Dir. Rob Zombie, USA, Dimension Films 2007)
Hostel: Part II (Dir. Eli Roth, USA, Lionsgate 2007)
Night of the Eagle (Dir. Sidney Hayers, UK 1962, Optimum Home Entertainment, 2007)
Peeping Tom (Dir: Michael Powell, UK 1960, Optimum Home Entertainment, 2007)
The Mind Benders (Dir. Basil Dearden, UK 1962 Optimum Home Entertainment, 2007)
The Host (Gwoemul) (Dir. Bong Joon-ho, South Korea, 2006, Optimum Asia)
1408 (Dir. Mikael Håfström, USA 2007, Dimension Films)
Black Sheep (Dir. Jonathan King, New Zealand 2006, Live Stock Films / New Zealand Film Commission)

MULTI-MEDIA REVIEWS
Bioshock (Game Developer: Take 2 Interactive)
The Darkness (Game Developer: Take 2 Interactive)
Hack/Slash – First Cut  Tim Seeley/ Stefano Caselli/ Sunder Raj (Devil's Due Publishing, 2007)
Doomed (IDW Publishing, 2007)

TELEVISION REVIEWS
Dexter (Showtime: FX, 2007)
Twin Peaks (1990-1991) ABC/Universal Home Entertainment (Season One)/Paramount Home Entertainment (Season Two)
Torchwood (BBC Three, 2006)
Supernatural (Seasons 1 & 2, UTV)
Jekyll (Hartswood Films/BBC/Stagescreen Productions, 2007)

EVENTS REVIEWS
Horrorthon - Dublin's 10th annual horror film festival
David Lynch in Dublin, 20th October 2007
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Issue # 4 - 08/06/2008

ARTICLES
Dale Townshend: T. J. Horsley Curties and Royalist Gothic: The Case of The Monk of Udolpho (1807)
Finn Ballard:  No Trespassing: The Post-Millennial Road-Horror Movie
Jarlath Killeen: Irish Gothic Revisited
Justin Ponder:  "To the Next Level": Castration in Hostel II
Leslie Sheldon: ‘The Great Disillusionment’: H.G. Wells, Mankind, and Aliens in American Invasion Horror Films of the 1950s

BOOK REVIEWS
Stephen King, Duma Key
Jonathan Rigby, English Gothic: A Century of Horror Cinema
Edith Wharton, The Triumph of Night and Other Tales
Tony Magistrale, Abject Terrors: Surveying the Modern and Postmodern Horror Film
Joe Hill, Heart-Shaped Box
Walter de la Mare, Strangers and Pilgrims
Stephen D. Youngkin, The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre

FILMS REVIEWS
Cloverfield (Dir. Matt Reeves, USA 2007), Diary of the Dead (Dir. George A. Romero, USA 2007) & [Rec] (Dir. Jaume Balagueró & Paco Plaza Spain 2007)
Night of the Demon  (Dir. Jacques Tourneur) UK 1957, Columbia Tristar 2002
The Orphanage (El Orfanato) (Dir. Juan Antonio Bayona) Spain/Mexico 2007, Optimum Releasing
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Dir. Tim Burton) USA/UK 2007, Warner Home Video
30 Days of Night (Dir. David Slade) USA 2007, Icon Home Entertainment
Doomsday (Dir. Neil Marshall) UK/USA/South Africa 2008, Rouge Pictures / Intrepid Pictures
The Mist (Dir. Frank Darabont) USA 2007, Dimension Films

MULTI-MEDIA REVIEWS
Y: The Last Man #60  Brian K. Vaughan, Pia Guerra
Secret Files: Tunguska (Developer: Dreamcatcher Interactive)
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier (America’s Best Comics, 2007) Written by Alan Moore and Drawn by Kevin O’Neill
Dementium:  The Ward (Developer: Renegade Kid) Platform:  Nintendo DS
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines (Developer – Troika) Rated 18 Platform – PC-CD ROM

TELEVISION REVIEWS
Most Haunted (2002-present) & Ghost Whisperer (2005-present)(Living TV)
Casting the Runes (Network/Yorkshire TV/Granada, 1979)
Pushing Daisies (ABC, 2007-present)
Masters of Horror: Series 2 (Showtime, 2008)
Count Dracula (BBC/2 Entertain, 1977)
Issue # 5 - 08/12/2008

ARTICLES
Murray Leeder: The Fall of the House of Meaning: Between Static and Slime in Poltergeist
Maeve Davey:   'The strange heart beating’: Bird Imagery, Masculinities and the Northern Irish Postcolonial Gothic in the novels of Sean O’Reilly and Peter Hollywood
Ada Lovelace: Ghostly and Monstrous Manifestations of Women: Edo to Contemporary
Christina Morin: Delightful Cannibal Feasts: Literary Consumption in Melmoth the Wanderer
Wendy Haslem: Traces of Gothic Spectrality in New Media Art

BOOK REVIEWS
David J. Skal and Jessica Rains, Claude Rains: An Actor’s Voice
Lynn Forest-Hill (Ed.),The Mirror Crack’d: Fear and Horror in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Major Works
Margaret Oliphant, The Library Window
Joanne Owen, Puppet Master
Kim Paffenroth, Gospel of the Living Dead: George Romero’s Visions of Hell on Earth
Hazel Court, Hazel Court - Horror Queen: An Autobiography
Carole Zucker, The Cinema of Neil Jordan: Dark Carnival

FILMS REVIEWS
The Dark Knight (Dir. Christopher Nolan, USA 2008) & Hellboy II: The Golden Army (Dir. Guillermo del Toro USA/Germany 2008)
Martyrs (Dir. Pascale Laugier) France/Canada, 2008
Les Yeux sans visage (Eyes Without A Face) (Dir. Georges Franju) France/Italy, 1960
Saw V (Dir. David Hackl) USA, 2008
Blacula (Dir. William Crain) USA, 1972 & Scream Blacula Scream (Dir. Bob Kelljan) USA, 1973
The Mummy (Dir.  Karl Freund) USA, 1932

MULTI-MEDIA REVIEWS
Simon Dark: What Simon Does (DC Comics. 2008) Steve Niles & Scott Hampton
Silent Hill:  Origins (Developer:  Konami)
The Mystery Play (Vertigo, 2008) Written by Grant Morrison and Drawn by John J.  Muth
New Media Retrospectives #1: Clive Barker’s Undying (Developer: DreamWorks Interactive)

TELEVISION REVIEWS
Charlie Brooker’s Dead Set (e4, 27th October – 1st November 2008)
The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror (20th Century 1990-present)
Fringe (Sky, October 2008 - Present)
The Death Drive: The Rise of the Irish Road-Safety Advert
True Blood (HBO, September 2008 – Present)

EVENTS REVIEWS
Gothic: Dark Glamour Exhibit - New York, Sep 2008 - Dec 2009
Kafka's Metamorphosis - Dublin Theatre Festival, Sep - Oct 2008
Horrorthon - Dublin's 11th annual Horror Film Festival, Oct 2008