About me
Danel Olson, Ph.D., has taught at schools, colleges, and universities in Occupied Palestine, China, Canada, and America on film, argument, and literature. His forthcoming book, with 24 great writers (and many HWA members) is from Bloomsbury: Mothers of Horror: The Scary-Movie Moms Haunting Women in Horror (early 2026).
Three-time finalist for the Bram Stoker Award and winner of a Shirley Jackson Award and two World Fantasy Awards, many original stories he commissioned and edited for his six-volume fiction series Exotic Gothic re-appear in Year’s Best Weird Fiction, The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, and The Best Horror of the Year.
His film books cover The Exorcist, The Shining, The Devil’s Backbone, and Pan’s Labyrinth, and The Washington Post judges his cinema volumes "a major contribution to film history and scholarship.” His forthcoming work is Rosemary’s Baby: Studies in the Horror Film for Centipede Press, with one of the final new interviews with its director.
An authority on terrorism, his thirteenth volume is Palgrave Macmillan’s Gothic War on Terror: Killing, Haunting, and PTSD in American Film, Fiction, Comics, and Video Games. Joyce Carol Oates acclaims it (the second book published from his dissertation on political violence) as “Terrifically interesting with riveting material fastidiously assembled. A major work. Amazing ... brilliant .... all-encompassing. Should be required reading."
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