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Translating Horror

Shadows on the Page and Screen
Paschalis Nikolaou

£66.99

This collection of essays examines the translation of horror in literature and cinema. Considering authors like H. P. Lovecraft and Stephen King, this volume probes the boundaries between originals and their retellings, revealing how translation is part of the telling of horror.

This collection of essays highlights the varied receptions of horror as a genre, examining a prolific, and constantly evolving, dialogue of literary and cinematic traditions.…
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This collection of essays highlights the varied receptions of horror as a genre, examining a prolific, and constantly evolving, dialogue of literary and cinematic traditions. Specific challenges in translating key authors such as H. P. Lovecraft and Stephen King are considered, alongside aspects of audiovisual translation relating to horror—but also ways in which processes or framing devices of translation may participate in self-aware, multimodal storytelling whereby conventions and forms are updated. Contributors discern the genre’s characteristic porosity that often sees translators work with originals that recycle enduring plots and supernatural figures or cater for younger ages; likewise, the writing, filming and translating of dark narratives regularly combine with practices of adaptation. Of interest to researchers in literary and translation studies, this volume probes the permeable boundaries between originals and their disseminations on the page or the screen, with essays that often help register how translation can be part of the telling, and retelling, of horror.

Paschalis Nikolaou is Associate Professor in Literary Translation at the Department of Foreign Languages, Translation and Interpreting of the Ionian University, Greece. He has edited Encounters in Greek and Irish Literature: Creativity, Translations and Critical Perspectives (2020) and most recently, the Selected Poems of Josephine Balmer (2025). Two studies, The Return of Pytheas: Scenes from British and Greek Poetry in Dialogue and Creative Classical Translation, appeared in 2017 and 2023, respectively.

Audrey Coussy, Thomas Mantzaris, Anna Mach, Robert Szymyslik, Angeliki Skiadopoulou, Paschalis Nikolaou

Hardback

  • ISBN: 1-0364-6537-3
  • ISBN13: 978-1-0364-6537-7
  • Date of Publication: 2026-03-18

Subject Codes:

  • BIC: APF, CFP, DSK
  • BISAC: LIT021000, LIT020000, LIT006000, LAN023000, LAN009000, LAN004000
  • THEMA: ATF, CFP, DSK
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  • "This book tackles a subject that is virtually untouched in existing scholarship, and the various contributors have been unfailingly acute in their analysis of the subtleties and complexities of translating the work of some of the titans of horror fiction into other languages. There are also illuminating chapters on young adult literature and media adaptations. All told, this edited volume will be avidly sought by both scholars and general readers."
    - S. T. Joshi, Author of I Am Providence: The Life and Times of H. P. Lovecraft (2010) and Unutterable Horror: A History of Supernatural Fiction (2012)

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