The Ovidian Locus Terribilis in Contemporary Crime and Horror Drama

Laura Ellen Joyce is Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, UK. Her doctoral study was on "Forensic Reading: The Crime Scene from The Metamorphoses to Gone Girl". She was project co-ordinator of the AHRC funded Global Queer Cinema network in 2012-2013. She has published two crime novels: The Museum of Atheism (Salt: 2012) and The Luminol Reels (Calamari: 2014).

Introduction: Twin Peaks, 1991-2017, Classical Reception and Contemporary Rural Horror

1. From Locus Amoenus to Locus Terribilis

2. Central Europe's Gloomy Forests and Sinister Lakes
Stranger by the Lake and the Myth of Salamcis
Eden Lake, Kill List, and the Myth of Tereus and Philomela
The Locus Post-Terribilis: Southcliffe, In the Fog, A Field in England, and Archipelago

3. (Un) Settling in North America
It Comes at Night and Cephalus and Procris
The Blair Witch Project, Butter on the Latch and the Myth of Narcissus
The Locus Post-Terribilis: Thou was Mild and Lovely, True Detective, and Foxcatcher

4. The Australian Wilderness
Jindabyne and the Myth of Daphne and Apollo
Top of the Lake and the Myth of Diana and Actaeon
The Locus Post-Terribilis: Snowtown, The Kettering Incident, and Picnic at Hanging Rock

5. The Locus Hospitalitas

Filmography
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