Feeding The Monster, Anna’s new book, is a captivating look at what draws us to the shocks and thrills of horror.

Horror has been embraced by mainstream pop culture more than ever before, with horror characters and aesthetics infecting TV, music videos and even TikTok trends. Yet even with the commercial and critical success of The Babadook, Hereditary, Get Out, The Haunting of Hill House, Yellowjackets and countless other horror films and TV series over the last few years, loving the genre still prompts the question: what’s wrong with you?

In Feeding the Monster, Anna Bogutskaya dispels this notion once and for all by examining how horror responds to and fuels our feelings of fear, anxiety, pain, hunger and power.

Anna Bogustskaya is a London-based author, critic, freelance film programmer, podcaster and creative producer. She is a co-founder of the horror film collective The Final Girls and Film Programmer for the Edinburgh International Film Festival and Fantastic Fest. Her previous book- Unlikeable Female Characters– was about the history and evolution of unlikeable female characters in film, TV and pop culture