In today's post, I would just like to call attention to a recent nonfiction publication--my essay "Music to Our Fears." The piece traces the ways in which the 2007 Tim Burton musical Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street actually qualifies as a slasher film. At the same time, I explore how Burton's macabre, subversive movie employs its musical aspects to help orchestrate its very horrors.
"Music to Our Fears" appears in Butcher Knives & Body Counts: Essays on the Formula, Frights, & Fun of the Slasher Film (Dark Scribe Press). This huge volume (nearly 500 pages long) features contributions by such genre luminaries as Jack Ketchum, Adam Green, Stephen Graham Jones, Harley Jane Kozak, Lee Thomas, Lisa Morton, and Jeff Strand. The book is a treasury of pop culture analysis (the essays--devoted to specific films as well as the slasher film subgenre as a whole--will send readers scurrying to fill their Netflix queues with old favorites and overlooked gems). It also makes for the perfect holiday gift for anyone looking to celebrate a Black Christmas this year.
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