Horror and Mother/hoods in Global Cultural Imaginaries

Motherhood has long been idealized as a site of unconditional love, sacrifice, and renewal, yet the horror genre reveals its darker undercurrents—the spaces where fear, violence, and survival converge. This collection embraces horror as an interdisciplinary lens to examine the cultural contradictions and emotional realities of mother/hoods. Our contributors explore how maternal figures are imagined, troubled, resisted, and reclaimed across cultures, time, narrative forms, and genres.