Jason Ray Carney

Jason Ray Carney teaches popular literature in the department of English at Christopher Newport University. He is the author of Weird Tales of Modernity: The Ephemerality of the Ordinary in the Stories of Robert E. Howard, Clark Ashton Smith and H. P. Lovecraft (McFarland), the area chair of the “Pulp Studies” section of the Popular Culture Association, and the editor of The Dark Man: Journal of Robert E. Howard and Pulp Studies.

Does Horror Infect or Protect?: On Brandon R. Grafius’s “Lurking Under the Surface”

Jason Ray Carney reviews Brandon R. Grafius’s “Lurking Under the Surface: Horror, Religion, and the Questions That Haunt Us,” a nonfiction book that explores the relationship between horror films and biblical studies....

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RELIGION

Reading Sword-and-Sorcery to Make the Present Less Real

Jason Ray Carney on whether it’s justifiable to read sword-and-sorcery today....

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