How to Survive a Horror Story: Fairy Tale and Film as Instruction
mar, 20 oct
|Virtual
Film scholar Carol Clover gave horror's lone survivor a name in 1992: The Final Girl. Pop culture has argued over her position in the canon ever since. Long before horror films were around, myths and fairytales were actually survival instructions for women.
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20 oct 2026, 20:30 – 22:00 GMT-4
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Long before the horror movie, fairy tales and myths were teaching women how to survive a house built to destroy them: the hidden rule, the forbidden room, the women who came before them, and the cost of finally seeing.
Presenter Jade Eby writes, "This talk takes fairy tales, myths, and one contemporary horror film and lays them side by side, beat for beat. Reading backward through scholars like Carol Clover, Laura Hubner, Maria Tatar and Clarissa Pinkola Estés, it argues that horror didn't invent the woman who survives, myth and fairy tale did. More importantly, we’ll talk about why these fairy tales, myths, and films act as survival instructions for women in today’s complicated world."
Jade Eby is a writer, mythologist, and trauma recovery specialist who reads horror and fairy tales as encrypted survival instruction. Author of more than twenty books and creator of Writing Fiction to Heal™, she writes…
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