Here’s something I didn’t know I needed: critical analysis of capitalism from a Marxist perspective with an emphasis on how horror can both explain the nature of capitalism and offer hope for a better future. Very well done and engaging throughout…even doubles at times as film / literature critique as well.

Capitalism: A Horror Story discusses the ways in which the horror genre and the horror of capitalism through Marxism overlap, intersect, and produce affect for populations. A truly exciting read which explores film, literature, queerness, monstrosity, and fascism. Having both an interest in Marxist theory as well as the emergence of gothic and horror discourses and theories this truly brought together these topics with explanations and analyses that were rich with thought and academic resources. A must read for the readers of horror who also recognise the inherent horror of capitalism!

This book is so great! I'm a total wuss when it comes to horror movies and books, but I've had this desire to 'get over it' so I could appreciate what it's all about for a long time - I therefore went into this book hoping it might give me another angle with which to approach the genre, and it did so much more! It's a mix of literary criticism, cultural analysis, political economy and - wonderfully - polemic. It manages to have a whimsy about it whilst also being deadly (ha!) serious, and I felt both cleverer and happier having read it. Will it get me to watch more horror movies and read more gothic novels? Maybe. Has it totally transformed how I think about the genre and the imagination-disruption potential it has / role it plays in our capitalist realist culture? 100%.