The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies, the world’s longest-running educational organization dedicated to classes in horror history, theory and production, currently has branches in L.A., New York, and London. While preparing the Fall 2020 semester amidst the current lockdown regulations, Miskatonic will be launching archival videos of classes online for by-donation access. Released periodically over the [...]

Miskatonic LA is set to present an evening in conversation with the great British horror and sexploitation director Pete Walker. Starting out in softcore sex shorts in the 1960s before turning to features in 1968 with films like The Big Switch, School of Sex and his breakthrough Cool it Carol! in 1969, Walker then self-financed a decade of [...]

The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies is excited to present "Destructible Man: The Dummy-death and Cinematic Storytelling Language" on April 11th at the Philosophical Research Society. Howard S. Berger goes deep into one of cinema's most overlooked niches: films that include a 'dummy death,' a cinematic illusion that transpires when a living actor is swapped out at [...]

Do you remember the first time you set eyes on Karen Black? The cool glow of the television hypnotizing you as The Trilogy of Terror sun a devilishly frightening yarn in the comfort of your own home? Yes. Before VOD and DVD and LMNOP there was the made for television horror film. Although rarely held [...]

The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies is the world’s longest-running educational organization devoted to the study of horror history, theory, and production. Much to the anticipation of the masses, Miskatonic has just released its Spring 2019 lineup of classes for all three branches, led by some of the most renowned critical, literary and filmmaking visionaries. New York [...]

The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies- NYC will drum up the finest soundracks in horror with their latest seminar The Frequency of Fear: The Power and the Glory of the Motion Picture Soundtrack at the Film Noir Cinema December 11. Dean Hurley, Twin Peaks: The Return's sound editor and music supervisor, will hold this class [...]

News so exciting we could scream bloody murder. The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies- LA ends their inaugural semester at the new LA branch with "Focus on: The Murder Set Piece" on December 13th at the Philosophical Research Society in Los Feliz. Director Robert Flender (Scream TV Series; HBO’s Tales From the Crypt; The Unborn; cult hit Idle Hands and upcoming horror-comedy Eat, Brains, Love) will [...]