In the twenty-first century horror television has spread across the digital TV landscape, garnering mainstream appeal. Located within a transmedia matrix, Transmedia Terrors in Post-TV Horror triangulates this boom across screen content, industry practices, and online participatory cultures. Understanding the genre within a post-TV paradigm, the book readdresses what is horror television, analysing not only broadcast TV and streaming platforms but also portals such as YouTube, Twitch.TV, and apps. The book also investigates complex digital media ecologies, blurring distinctions between niche and general audience viewing practices, and fostering new circulation pathways for horror television from around the world. Undertaking netnography, the book further offers an innovative model – abject spectrums – to empirically explore myriad audience responses to TV horror, manifesting in various participatory practices including writing, imagery, and crafts. As such, the book greatly expands what is considered horror television, its formatting and circulation, and the transmedia materiality of audience engagement.
By:
James Rendell
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781041189879
ISBN 10: 1041189877
Series: Transmedia
Pages: 334
Publication Date: 01 December 2025
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming
Acknowledgements, Introduction, TV Horror: What a Time to Be Alive... and Undead, Part 1, Post-TV Horror Ecologies, Chapter 1, Jekyll and Hyde: TV Horror's Incorporation of Other Genres and Audiences, Chapter 2, Streaming Screaming: Post-Television Horror Texts and Platforms, Chapter 3, Digital Crypt Keepers: Informal Digital Dissemination and Consumption of Post-TV Horror, Part 2, Post-TV Horror Audiences, Chapter 4, Not Just Horrifying: TV Horror Audiences' Abject Spectrums, Chapter 5, Spreadable Splatter: TV Horror's Online Fans' Image Textuality, Chapter 6, Sick Senses: Fan Food and Soundtracks as Materialities of Transmedia TV Horror, Conclusion.
Dr James Rendell is a lecturer in creative industries at the University of South Wales. His research has been published in Transformative Works and Cultures, East Asian Journal of Popular Culture, Participations: Journal of Audience and Reception Studies, New Review of Film and Television Studies, Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, and Global TV Horror.
