Dissections: The Journal of Contemporary Horror just released their May 2009 special issue on “issues of teaching the horror genre in the classroom.” Sure, I’m in there with a discussion of “learning objectives” in a horror course, but with essays like Doug Ford‘s “The Sublime Trials of Jack Ketchum: Teaching ‘The Girl Next Door’ in the Era of Torture P**n” and poems about classic movie actors by Bryan Dietrich, you know you’re getting something as fascinating as it is educational.
