What Sleeps Beneath is an online magazine that explores the horror genre as one of the most important cultural vehicles of our time. It is a home for all horror-loving nerds, and a space to investigate what the genre tells us about ourselves. We write book and movie reviews, conduct interviews, and write original academic research.

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Ande Thomas 11/12/19 Ande Thomas 11/12/19

Winter's Coming: 5 Lesser Known Horror Films in the Snow

5 movies you need to be watching for the first snow-fall of the season

Laura Kemmerer 9/25/19 Laura Kemmerer 9/25/19

Mortician at the Mütter Museum: Meeting Caitlin Doughty & Reminders of My Own Mortality

In the opening of the talk, Doughty jokingly pointed out that her parents said they hadn’t really “seen the signs” of her inclination toward the morbid as she was growing up. In one instance, she mentioned finding a diary from her childhood in which the sole entry was a celebration of Halloween finally having arrived.

Laura Kemmerer 9/7/19 Laura Kemmerer 9/7/19

Hagazussa: A Heathen’s Curse (2017) [Movie Review]

The four-act structure and the subsequent slide of one woman, living alone, into the relentlessly grinding maw of social expectations, culture, and the Old High German titular “witch” (Hagazussa) concept was a deeply moving joy.