Books by Bernice M. Murphy

The Highway Horror Film argues that 'Highway Horror' is a hither-to overlooked sub-genre of the American horror movie. In these films, the American landscape is by its very accessibility rendered terrifyingly hostile, and encounters with other travellers almost always have sinister outcomes.

An eclectic and insightful collection of essays predicated on the hypothesis that popular cultural documents provide unique insights into the concerns, anxieties and desires of their times. 1950s popular culture is analysed by leading scholars and critics such as Christopher Frayling, Mark Jancovich, Kim Newman and David J. Skal.

Shirley Jackson was one of America's most prominent female writers of the 1950s. These essays widen the scope of Jackson scholarship with new writing on such works as The Road through the Wall and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, and ranges from Jackson's domestic fiction to ethics, cosmology, and eschatology.