Baroque Aesthetics in Contemporary American Horror

Gabriel Eljaiek-Rodríguez is a Colombian writer and academic. He teaches at Spelman College in Atlanta, USA, and has written extensively on the Latin American Gothic, Horror cinema, and cultural migration. He has published Selva de fantasmas: El gótico en la literatura y el cine latinoamericanos (2017); The Migration and Politics of Monsters in Latin American Cinema (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), and Colombian Gothic in Cinema and Literature (2021).

• 1.Introduction. Tracing Monstrous Multiplicity.- 2.Baroque Aesthetics and Horrors.- 3.US Baroque Horror Series: American Horror Story, Penny Dreadful, Hemlock Grove.-4.Saturating the Big Screen: Insidious Franchise and The Conjuring Universe.- 5.Baroque Horror Politics. Get Out and American Horror Story: Cult.- 6.Conclusion: “My name is Legion for we are many.”