Dr Catherine Pugh

Dr Catherine Pugh

Dr Catherine Pugh

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Whether you're a seasoned horror veteran or a curious newcomer, there's something here for everyone. So, pull up a chair by the flickering fire, pour yourself a glass, and prepare to lose yourself.

Dr Catherine Pugh is an international award winning author, speaker, teacher, and is passionate about bringing the horror genre and its wider impact and significance to the world.


About

Horror Culture Author and Speaker

Dr Catherine Pugh completed her PhD at the University of Essex and is now a writer and independent scholar.


She has contributed to over 40 internationally published scholarly horror and science fiction collections.


While she has written extensively about literature and theatre studies, she primary writes about screen media including film, tv, and video games.


Catherine has written on many aspect of horror, but specialises in representations of disability and mental illness. Her other interests include the Gothic and metamorphic monsters, animals, and mindscapes

In 2023, she won The Association for the Study of Buffy+ “Mr Pointy Award” for her essay “Such Pretty Things: Madness in the Whedonverse”.

Her current home is in the South East of England, but has called many places 'home' over the years.  She is also a Guide Dog puppy trainer, and has trained several very lovely Labrador puppies.  

Published Works

Selected Titles

Uncanny Doubles: Doppelgängers, Twins, Clones and the Gothic (Palgrave Gothic)

Simon Bacon (editor)

Part V Chapter 18

‘You are Not Evil to Me. You Were Necessary’: Pathologising Malevolent Alters in Split (2016) and Glass (2019)"

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Female Identity in Contemporary Fiction in Purgatorial Worlds 

Simon Bacon (editor)

Part II Chapter 5 
“Mother Is God in the Eyes of a Child”: Doppelgängers, Punishment, and Maternal Otherworlds in Silent Hill and Triangle

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American Horror Story and Cult Television: Narratives, Histories and Discourses

Richard Hand (Editor),

Mark O'Thomas (Editor)

Section 2 Chapter 4  
"I Know Your Body" : Trauma and the Frankenstein Myth in "Coven"

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        Published Works - Papers


        • “Monstrous Mothers and Abominable Infants: Undead Pregnancy and Zombie Newborns”. The Palgrave Handbook of the Zombie. Palgrave. 2025. https://link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/978-3-031-24734-7_40-1



        • ‘“I Wish We Could Stay Here Forever…and Ever”: Trauma and Sentient Space in the Horror Hotel. With Melody Blackmore. New Review of Film and Television Studies 23, issue 1. March 2025


        • ‘Swallow You Whole: the Jurassic Park Franchise, Eco-Horror and the Devouring Gothic.’ Cinergie Il Cinema E Le Altre Arti, 12 (24), 87—99. 2023. https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2280-9481/16748


        • ‘“Better the Devil You Know”: Feminine Sexuality and Patriarchal Liberation in The Witch.’ With Melody Blackmore. Journal for Cultural Research 27. Special Issue on Folk Horror. Edited by Melody Blackmore, Rob Shail and Karl Spracklen. Taylor and Francis. 2023. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14797585.2023.2218626


        • ‘Made to Suffer: The Redemptive Power of Disability in Angel.’ Slayage Special Issue, 2019. https://www.whedonstudies.tv/uploads/2/6/2/8/26288593/6._pugh_-_slayage_17.2.pdf


        • ‘Beautiful Monsters: Sickness, Disability and the Extraordinary Body.’ Studies in Gothic Fiction Special Issue: Disabled Gothic Bodies. https://sgf.cardiffuniversitypress.org/articles/abstract/10.18573/sgf.19/


        • ‘Burning it Down: Fire in The Walking Dead.’ Horror Homeroom. 2018. http://www.horrorhomeroom.com/burning-it-down-fire-in-the-walking-dead/


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