Awards:
Silver Hammer Award, 2021
Nominations:
“A Theatre of Ghosts, A Haunted Cinema: The Japanese Gothic as Theatrical Tradition in Gurozuka” (The Wenshan Review of Literature and Culture: Special Issue on Asian Gothic), Short Non-Fiction, 2023
“A Clown in the Living Room: The Sinister Clown on Television” (The Many Lives of Scary Clowns: Essays on Pennywise, Twisty, the Joker, Krusty and More) (McFarland and Company), Short Non-Fiction, 2022
“Devil’s Advocates: The Conjuring” (Auteur Publishing/Liverpool University Press), Short Non-Fiction, 2021
Eaters of the Dead: Myths and Realities of Cannibal Monsters (Reaktion Books), Non-Fiction, 2021
The Streaming of Hill House: Essays on the Haunting Netflix Adaption (McFarland & Co., Inc.), Non-Fiction, 2020
Uncovering Stranger Things: Essays on Eighties Nostalgia, Cynicism and Innocence in the Series (McFarland & Co., Inc.), Non-Fiction, 2018
BIO: Kevin Wetmore is a professor, short fiction writer of over four dozen published short stories, and writer of Post 9/11 Horror in American Cinema, Back from the Dead: Reading Remakes of Romero’s Zombie Films as Markers of their Times, The Theology of Battlestar Galactica, the Devil’s Advocates volume on The Conjuring, and over a hundred book chapters on everything from zombies on stage to Godzilla, to apocalyptic horror. He is also the editor of over a dozen books, including Uncovering Stranger Things, The Streaming of Hill House, and Theatre and the Macabre. He also works as an actor, director, stage combat choreographer and stand-up comedian.
