This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary conference seeks to examine and explore issues which lie at the interface of fear, horror and terror.  In particular the project is interested in investigating the various contexts of fear, horror and terror, and assessing issues surrounding the artistic, cinematic, literary, moral, social, (geo)political, philosophical, psychological and religious significance of them, both individually and together.

Papers, reports, work-in-progress and workshops are invited on issues related to any of the following themes:

1. The Contexts of Fear, Horror and Terror
-    creating fear, horror and terror
-    the properties of fear, horror and terror
-    contexts of fear, horror and terror
-    the language of fear, horror and terror
-    the meaning of fear, horror and terror
-    the significance of fear, horror and terror

2. At the Interface of Fear, Horror and Terror
-    the role of fear, horror and terror
-    techniques of fear, horror and terror
-    marketing fear, horror and terror
-    recreational fear, horror and terror
-    aesthetic fear, horror and terror
-    the temperature of fear, horror and terror
-    the relation to anxiety, disgust, dread, loathing
-   the relation to hope and the future

3. Representations of Fear, Horror and Terror
-    fear, horror, terror and the imagination
-    fear, horror, terror and pleasure
-    fear, horror, terror and art, cinema, theatre
-    fear, horror, terror and literature (including children’s stories)
-    fear, horror, terror and the other
-    fear, horror, terror and technology
-    fear, horror, terror, hope and despair
-    confronting fear, horror and terror

The Steering Group particularly welcomes the submission of pre-formed panel proposals. Papers will be considered on any related theme. 300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 18th April 2008. If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 8th August 2008.

300 word abstracts should be submitted to the Organising Committee; abstracts may be in Word, WordPerfect, or RTF formats, following this order: author(s), affiliation, email address, title of abstract, body of abstract. Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using any special formatting, characters or emphasis (such as bold, italics or underline). We acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do not receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive your proposal; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look for an alternative electronic route or resend.

All papers accepted for and presented at the conference will be eligible for inclusion in an ISBN eBook. In addition, selected papers accepted for and presented at this conference will also be published in a themed volume.

The conference is part of a larger series of ongoing conferences, run under the general banner ‘At the Interface’. It aims to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are innovative and exciting.