Finally, audiences will get to see the dark art of yoga for what it truly is. Coming into Chattanooga Film Festival, Mind Body Spirit, a found footage-style horror film about a hopeful yoga influencer, was one of the higher profile draws featured in the festival’s lineup.

How the psychiatrists in The Entity represent the failings of the medical profession when it comes to women’s mental health.

Strange Relics, Stories of Archaeology and the Supernatural, 1895-1954, is the latest utterly enchanting anthology from Handheld Press, bringing together the best in short story explorations of the past and supernatural literature.

Fresh Hell (2022), directed by Matt Neal and Ryan Imhoff, is the latest in post-pandemic found footage horror films centering around Zoom meetings, and for its part, has no problem identifying itself as a product of the lockdowns, explicitly citing the virus and the unrest it caused in the opening scene.

The Outcast and the Rite: Stories of Landscape and Fear, 1925-1938, the latest single-author collection from Handheld Press, makes for both an enchanting read, and something that may be a tough nut to crack for readers new to horror.

In Horror Library: Volume 7, edited by accomplished anthologist Eric Guignard and published by Dark Moon Books, the reader is treated to stories from sharp social horror to thrillers with a supernatural flair.

Digging Up the Marrow (2014), a found-footage comedic metacommentary on the horror community, is a fun watch, while also raising some interesting points on the disregard of disability and scapegoating of difference.

When a Stranger Calls Back is a stalker-slasher that stands apart from other films in the genre, giving fans a more rounded, nuanced vision into how trauma might be dealt with in a horror film, without sacrificing the scares.

Shadow Atlas: Dark Landscapes of the Americas, an anthology released in 2021 by Hex Publishers, is a fantastical exploration of identity, landscape, and what happens when the two intersect.

Arrebato (Rapture) is the 1979 cult-hit from Spanish director Iván Zulueta that has thrilled and mystified international audiences for decades and will soon be available for the first time in the United States.

America’s First Female Serial Killer: Jane Toppan and the Making of a Monster, authored by Mary Kay McBrayer, is an interesting and experimental novel focused on exactly who you’d expect: Jane Toppan.

In Global Horror Cinema Today: 28 Representative Films from 17 Countries, this broad-strokes perspective on the genre’s recent filmic history will have horror fans keeping Letterboxd open—so many amazing moves, so little time.

Though Brotherhood of the Wolf has its rough edges, this genre mashup of a movie has much to offer for horror and history fans alike.

Travel Anthology features ghostly tales of authors from around the globe, with an interesting focus: There are no stories of haunted houses.

The Villa and the Vortex: Supernatural Stories, 1916-1924 by Elinor Mordaunt is a must-read for those who love older horror and weird fiction, and for those who just love a good ghost story.

Nia DaCosta’s Candyman, though it closely follows the footsteps of the original, is a worthwhile sequel, wearing its themes on its sleeve and breathing new life into the story for the next generation.

David Lowery’s The Green Knight, a dreamlike venture, explores the vast interiority and resiliency of the human spirit, and that, really, sometimes you’ve just gotta lose your head.

Stuart Gordon’s Dagon, often overlooked in favor of his other movies, stands the test of time as both a unique horror movie and a parry against the racism in Lovecraft’s literature.

Death of Me, released last year on Netflix, induces gut-wrenching fear and anxiety, but also struggles with focus and overuse of specific horror tropes.

Tragic, haunting, and immersive, Joel Anderson’s 2008 masterpiece Lake Mungo is one of the finest pieces of ghost storytelling in recent history, literalizing Jacques Derrida’s concept of hauntology, or the persistence of an element of the past.