Annihilation is the first novel in the trilogy named “The Southern Reach,” a ScienceFiction/Horror series of books written by Jeff VanderMeer. Annihilation focuses on a team of scientists on an expedition into an area where the very nature has been altered in mysterious ways. The scientists’ goal is to study this area to come to an understanding of what is happening, but like the eleven previous expeditions, they fail.   With the aid of narratology, I will argue that Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation is an unreliable narrative. To prove that, I will analyse and discuss specific passage’s unreliable narration used in the novel, as well as incorporating themes from the novel that directly correlate with the unreliability of the novel’s narrative.  Annihilation is filled with ambiguous language and events that are on almost every  level unexplainable using scientific methods. The way that the novel is written makes the narrator, the biologist, unreliable in her narration of the events that take place around her. She is tormented by both her past and by the beings that inhabit Area X, such as the Crawler. The results of this study exemplify the ambiguity of VanderMeer’s writing and how he uses this ambiguous language to further thrust the narrative into a void of chaotic unreliability. There is nothing in the novel that can be trusted as fact in the context of the world in which the characters inhabit, down to the characters own thoughts and memories. The presented themes of Annihilation are in direct correlation with the unreliability of the narrative and show how deep VanderMeer went into constructing the most unreliable narrative possible.

I svenskämnet i skolan ska eleverna möta olika typer av texter från olika tider. För en del elever kommer deras fria bokval att befinna sig inom skräckgenren. Den här studien syftar till att öka kunskapen om hur flickor väljer ut böcker inom genren skräcklitteratur samt vad det är de vill uppleva med läsningen utifrån frågeställningarna: Utifrån vilka faktorer väljer flickor ut skräcklitteratur? Hur uppfattar flickor genus i skräcklitteratur? Vilka känslor upplever flickor när de läser skräcklitteratur? Studien har en fenomenografisk ansats som utgångspunkt eftersom det ska undersökas vilka faktorer som påverkar flickors fria bokval, deras uppfattningar om skräckgenrens genus samt hur flickor uppfattar de känslor som skapas av skräcklitteratur. Kvalitativ metod används av studien och data insamlades med hjälp av enkäter och intervjuer. Resultatet i studien visar att flickor väljer ut sin skräckbok utifrån faktorerna: Genre, layouten på boken samt baksidestexten. Flickorna baserade inte sitt bokval utifrån karaktärernas genus och kunde finna en identifikation med karaktärer oavsett genus. Spänning, rädsla, glädje och i viss mån maktlöshet var känslor som flickorna beskrev att de upplevde när de läste skräcklitteratur. / When learning the subject Swedish in school, students will meet different types of texts from different times. For some students, their free book choices will be in the horror genre. This study aims to increase the knowledge of how girls choose books in the horror literature genre, what they want to experience from reading, based on the questions: Based on what factors do girls choose horror literature? How do girls perceive gender in horror literature? What feelings do girls experience when reading horror literature? The study has a phenomenographic approach since it investigates which factors influence girls' free book choices, their perceptions of gender in the horror genre and how girls perceive the emotions created in themselves when reading horror literature. A qualitative method is used and data was collected using surveys and interviews. The results of the study show that girls choose their horror book based on the factors: Genre, the layout of the book and the back text. The girls did not base their book selection on the characters' gender and could find an identification with characters regardless of gender. Excitement, fear, joy and to some extent powerlessness were feelings that the girls described when they were reading horror literature.

"It may be said that one of the most important characteristics of the professional librarian is his familiarity with bibliographic methods. This is due to the fact that the librarian is responsible for the accessibility of the knowledge found within the library's collections, and that in carrying out his responsibility, he must utilize bibliography. As one authority has put it, bibliography leads the inquirer, 'through channels as well-defined as are the entrances to harbors, to the particular record or records of communication which contain the information or other matter which he seeks.' Because it was felt that she needed practice in acquiring skill in this 'art of communication,' the writer decided to undertake as a graduate paper a study which would involve bibliographic investigation, a study in the form of a bio-bibliography. In choosing an author as the subject of the bio-bibliography, it was necessary to select one who might be claimed as being within the province of librarianship. Miss Daphne du Maurier, the prominent English novelist, was chosen as the subject of the paper for several reasons"--Introduction. / Typescript. / "August, 1956." / "Submitted to the Graduate Council of Florida State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts." / Advisor: Ruth H. Rockwood, Professor Directing Paper. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 72-74).

Syftet med detta arbete var att undersöka betydelsen av visuell mänsklighet och nivå av monstrositet i monsterdesign inom skräckgenren. Detta gjordes genom att utforska skräckgenrens kriterier och de känslor som upplevs i den. Noël Carrols (1987) definition av art-horror användes som grund för arbetet, som beskriver upplevelsen av skräckmonster genom två känslor; hot och avsmak. En kvantitativ studie genomfördes för att undersöka hur upplevt hot och avsmak påverkades av olika nivåer av visuell mänsklighet och monstrositet i monsterdesign. Detta gjordes genom tre bildserier av illustrationer föreställande människor som blev gradvis mer och och mer monstruösa, presenterade i en enkät. Det upptäcktes att det som var mest monstruöst men fortfarande knutet till någonting relaterbart gav starkast reaktioner. Visuell mänsklighet var främst kopplat till avsmak men kunde även stärka känslan av hot och det var generellt svårt att särskilja de två känslorna. Det uppdagades att det inte går att särskilja skräckmonster från subjektivitet och kontext, och därför är det något som bör främjas snarare än undvikas i undersökningar angående skräckgenren.

This thesis investigates how the color red can potentially affect the player’s perception of horror game environments. The test was conducted by asking participants to play through a horror level made in Unreal Engine 4 which used realistic-looking assets. The study was performed using a mixed methodology of A/B/C testing with surveys and interviews to gather the data. The A, B, and C versions of the test used the same game-level in all versions however the color of the lighting was different in all of them. Version A used white lights, version B used red lights, and version C used red flickering lights. The results revealed that the players found the version with the white lights to be the scariest and the version with the flickering lights to be the second scariest. This was most likely due to the order in which the players played the levels, the version with white being the first that the players played. The players indicated that the realistic colors in version A added to the sense of immersion, whereas the continuous red lights in version B were perceived by some players as overdone or unnatural and would have been better suited for localized areas associated with supernatural elements. The flickering lights were well received by players and associated with a higher potential for danger and jump scares

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Detta arbete kommer vara inriktat på personers upplevelser om skrik i ett survival horror-spel. Bakgrunden går igenom vad skräck och rädsla är, ljudets betydelse i spel och skräckspel, och sist om människan och vår inställning till röster och specifikt skrik. Frågeställningen som utgår från bakgrunden är följande: Upplevs skrik som hotfullt eller hotat beroende på om det är kvinnligt eller manligt i ett survival horror-spel? Projektbeskrivningen går igenom artefakt som är tillhörande denna undersökning, som består av en video med skrik och enkel ambiens. Artefakten delades tillsammans med en enkät på olika forum och fick 16 svar. Resultatet från detta visar att både kvinnliga och manliga skrik kan upplevas som både hotfull och som hotade, det verkar mer bero på vad medverkande har för tidigare erfarenheter. Framtida arbete diskuteras mot slutet av denna studie, bland annat att det går att utveckla till att skriva om skrik som specifikt vapen inom spel/media. / <p>Det finns övrigt digitalt material (t.ex. film-, bild- eller ljudfiler) eller modeller/artefakter tillhörande examensarbetet som ska skickas till arkivet.</p>

This paper attempts an analysis of Ebrahim Hussein’s drama Mashetani through a critical approach based on the dimension of horror. Despite the pervasive strength of this element in Mashetani, it has rarely been considered as anything more than a mere stylistic element in a vision of this drama which approaches its contents only, using allegory. In this study, Mashetani will be read from a different point of view, which sees the horrific element as bearer of new contents and new subjects not always reachable through an allegorical interpretation, in order not only to make a contribution to literary criticism of this drama, but also to emphasize how horror can acquire an analytic function besides its stylistic role.

Visual images produce a version of the world, films do so by several images per minute. Films have power to choose who and what is represented and how. This can lead to misrepresentations and the reenforcing of stereotypes. From the outside, Sweden as a country is usually associated with health, safety and equality. However within Sweden another image is produced regarding its peripheral areas. A rural area which is seen mainly as an opposite of the urban city.    This study aims to use a multimodal critical discourse analysis to explore de reproduction of the Swedish in two selected horror films. The study also explores the concept of place importance in relation to the films stories and setting. The films are produced outside of Sweden but uses Swedish peripheries as its setting and Swedish culture as means of telling a story. The results found that although the films differ in their use and reconstruction of the peripheral of Sweden some similarities were found. Nordic mythology, sects and human sacrifices are just a small part of the mutual display of Sweden between the two horror films.

Syftet med den här uppsatsen var att vidga förståelsen av hur musikgenren death metal samspelar med scener från skräckfilm. För att metodiskt genomföra detta skapades fyra gestaltningar där musikstycken av sagda genre spelas ihop med fyra filmscener. Dessa gestaltningar analyserades och visades för fem informanter i samband med att de blev intervjuade. Resultatet indikerar på att genren deathmetal samspelar med sagda gestaltningar likt traditionell filmmusik. Resultatet indikerar även på att detta samspel uppfattas snarlikt oberoende på informanternas erfarenhet av musikgenren.