The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies, the world’s longest-running educational organization devoted to the study of horror history, theory and production, is pleased to announce its Spring 2019 lineup of classes, led by some of the genre world’s most renowned critical, literary and filmmaking luminaries at all three of our branches. In New York we […]

The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies, the world’s longest-running educational organization devoted to the study of horror history, theory and production, has just announced a new Los Angeles branch to complement those in London and New York. The new Los Angeles branch will be hosted at the Los Feliz headquarters of the Philosophical Research Society, […]

Miskatonic was honoured to have the opportunity to host screen icon Michael Ironside live in conversation at the Fantasia International Film Festival on July 20, 2018, moderated by film writer and producer Heather Buckley. Below are photos from the event. all photos by Julie Delisle except where noted.   Created with flickr slideshow.

In advance of Ian Cooper’s Miskatonic London class “No Sense Makes Sense: Gurus, Cults, Movies and Murder,” on May 17th, Martyn Conterio looks back at the onscreen legacy of Sharon Tate Novelist and film writer Gilbert Adair pondered the screen paradox of watching old movies and performers in them, in an entry of his 1996 […]

If you missed Miskatonic London’s incredible masterclass with horror fiction giant Ramsey Campbell in a career talk with Editor Stephen Jones on February 15th, 2018, we’ve posted the whole thing on our Youtube channel in two parts, which you can see below, thanks to videographer Li-Wei Chu! PART ONE: PART TWO:

Author of the Devil’s Advocates monograph on FW Murnau’s Nosferatu, A Symphony of Horrors (2015), Dr. Cristina Massacessi answered a few questions about the film’s restoration history and its place in cinema history, ahead of the forthcoming Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies lecture by Mark Rance on April 18th. Tickets available on the event page […]

Toronto-based filmmaker/editor Nathan Boone made this trailer for Stacey Abbott’s class at Miskatonic London on March 15th – Info + Tickets available on the event page HERE >> MISKATONIC LONDON “I AM LEGEND” TRAILER March 2018 from Miskatonic Institute on Vimeo.

Erik Piepenberg of The New York Times wrote this piece (appearing both online and in the print edition) about our school, featuring interviews with founder Kier-La Janisse, instructors Sukhdev Sandhu and Dianca London Potts, genre scholar Adam Lowenstein and Miskatonic student Derek Boeckelmann. “Because horror films have a vocabulary for the horrific, the painful, the […]

We’ve uploaded some event photos from the night to our Flickr page, assembled from photos we took as well as The Horse Hospital, Mandy Slater and some of our twitter followers! (If you click on the individual images you’ll see the photo credit)