Corrado Neri, "Taiwanese Horror Cinema in the 21st Century: Spectral Narratives and Screen Culture" (Anthem Press, 2026)

Taiwanese cinema is internationally celebrated for the

auteurs of the Taiwan New Cinema. Yet over the past fifteen years,

ghosts, demons, curses and haunted screens have become increasingly

prominent, turning horror from a marginal genre into an important strand

of Taiwan’s popular cinema.

Professor Corrado Neri’s new book, Taiwanese Horror Cinema in the 21st Century: Spectral Narratives and Screen Culture (Anthem

Press, 2026), explores this transformation. Neri argues that Taiwanese

horror has reached a new stage of maturity: it is now an established

industrial category, has diversified across genres and media, and has

developed a sophisticated capacity to address Taiwan’s social,

historical and technological anxieties.

The book also launches the new short book series, ‘Anthem Impact in Asian Media, Cinema and Communications’.