The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies

Our next online talk: Bug-Loving Freaks: The Entomologists of Horror Cinema presented by Edwin Harris

20 April 2026, 19:00GMT

Next up at we’re very pleased to welcome Dr James Rendell for his lecture ‘Be One of the Good Ones: His House and Colonial Capitalist Hauntings’

7pm on the 14th of April

A pleasure to have Mr Ken Hollings at the Miskatonic for ‘Terminal Desert: From Trinity Site to the Ends of the Earth (via Bronson Canyon)’

A big thanks to all who attended! And to Ken for the amazing talk.

On Monday the 16th of March we are very proud to welcome Willow Maclay to the Miskatonic for Gazing at the Trans Feminine Grotesque.

This lecture traces how the media spectacle of Christine Jorgensen—a trans woman framed as both curiosity and cautionary tale—became entangled with the lurid revelations surrounding serial killer Ed Gein to produce a cinematic shorthand for trans femininity as deception, monstrosity, and threat. This fusion shaped decades of horror cinema, from Psycho and Dressed to Kill to Sleepaway Camp and The Silence of the Lambs, embedding transmisogynist tropes deep within the genre’s visual language.

This is an online talk, beginning at 19:00 GMT. Tune in from anywhere.

Please check our website for more information about attending our online lectures.

We are very excited to welcome Ken Hollings to the stage for Terminal Desert: From Trinity Site to the Ends of the Earth (via Bronson Canyon)

Ken will be tracing how the American desert evolved into a home for monsters, violent drifters, and irradiated nightmares. Sounds like a dream! You will not want to miss it.

Our online schedule for 2026.

Our in person schedule, at the horse hospital.

One for your calendars, our online schedule.