Publications

Monographs

Scared by the Bible: The Roots of Horror in Scripture (Morehouse Publishing, 2025)
Lurking Under the Surface: Horror, Religion, and the Questions that Haunt Us (Broadleaf Books, 2022)
The Witch (Devils’ Advocates; Liverpool University Press, 2020)
Reading the Bible with Horror (Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2019)
Reading Phinehas, Watching Slashers: Numbers 25 and Horror Theory (Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2018)

Edited Volumes

The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Monsters, co-edited with John W. Morehead. (Oxford University Press, 2025)
Horror Comics and Religion: Essays on Framing the Monstrous and the Divine, co-edited with John W. Morehead (McFarland Publishing, 2025)
Seeing the Apocalypse: Essays on Bird Box, co-edited with Gregory Stevenson. (Lehigh University Press, 2021)
Theology and Horror: Explorations of the Dark Religious Imagination, co-edited with John W. Morehead. (Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2020)

Peer-Reviewed Chapters and Articles

“Zombies and the Apocalypse.” In The Palgrave Handbook of Zombies, ed. Simon Bacon. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025 (forthcoming).
“Goats All the Way Down: Punishment, Sacrifices, and Failed Rituals in Sam Raimi’s Drag Me to Hell.” In The Caprine Gothic, ed. Simon Bacon. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2025 (forthcoming).
 “A Silent City on the Hill: Silent Hill and Jerusalem in the Hebrew Bible.” In The Bible and Video Games, eds. Frank Bosman and Archibald van Wieringen. London: Bloomsbury, 2025 (forthcoming).
“American Idealism in the Folkloric Past of The Devil and Daniel Webster.” In American Folk Horrors, ed. Dawn Keetley. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2025 (forthcoming).
“Defining the Normal: Monstrosity in Stranger Things.” Pages 49-61 in Theology, Religion, and Stranger Things, eds. Andrew Byars and Adam J. Powell. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2025.
“The Monstrous Turn.” Co-written with John W. Morehead. Pages 1-14 in The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Monsters, edited by Brandon R. Grafius and John W. Morehead. London: Oxford University Press, 2025 (forthcoming).
“Introduction: Gaps and Frames.” Co-written with John W. Morehead. Pages 5-16 in Horror Comics and Religion: Framing the Monstrous and the Divine, edited by Brandon R. Grafius and John W. Morehead. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2025.
“Religion and the Gothic Memory: Toxic Excuses for the Past.” Pages 89-99 in Toxic Nostalgia on Screen: Undead Memory in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Simon Bacon. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2025.
“And Whenever They Catch You, They Will Kill You: Martin Rosen’s Watership Down (1978) as Horror.” Pages 13-28 in Youth Horror Television and the Question of Fear, edited by Kyle Brett and Ethan Robles. Lanham, MD: Lehigh University Press, 2024.
“Monster Unter Uns: Eine Enführung in den Horrorfilm <<Night of the Living Dead>> (1968) für Theologie-Interessierte.” Prospectiv: Theologisches und Religionswissenschaftliches aus Basel Magazinbeilage zu bref 17.1, 2024. German, translated by Anita Dernberger.
“Gothic Nostalgia in Contemporary Horror Films.” Pages 31-44 in Gothic Nostalgia, eds. Simon Bacon and Katarzyna Bronk-Bacon. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.

Magazine Articles

“The Phone Call Getting My Church through Trump 2.0.” Sojourners, February 2025.
“How End Times Theology Shaped U.S. Immigration Policy.” Sojourners, February 2025.
“Distorted Gospel: Marjorie Taylor Greene, Jesus and the Jews.” Salon.com, May 3, 2024.
“Is God Ever Violent?” Sojourners, April 2024.
“Can We Imagine Better Work?: On Aviva Briefel and Jason Middleton’s Labors of Fear.” Los Angeles Review of Books, October 25, 2023.
“The Monsters We Fear.” The Christian Century, October 2023.
“Mike Pence and ‘The Book’: A Master Class in Disingenuous Biblical Interpretation.” Salon.com, August 27, 2023.
“Protectors, Psychopomps, and Other Cats in Weird Fiction.” In The Weird Cat, edited by Katherine Kerestman and S.T. Joshi. Wordcraft Press, 2023.
“Inescapable Questions, Unbearable Costs: Paul Tremblay, Knock at the Cabin, and the Ethics of Sacrifice.” Co-written with J. R. Forasteros. Tor.com, February 15, 2023.
“The Many Ghosts of the Revised Common Lectionary.” Sojourners, October 4, 2022.
“‘The Sandman’ Grapples with a World Full of Terror and Grace.” Sojourners, August 15, 2022.
“In ‘Stranger Things’, It’s the Bad Guys Who Quote Scripture.” Sojourners, July 11, 2022.
“’Men’ Shows Christianity’s Horrifying Legacy of Blaming Women.” Sojourners, May 24, 2022.
“What Can Horror Teach Us About the Bible?” Sojourners, March 1, 2022.

“Sympathy for the Candyman: The Politics of the Past in Supernatural Horror.” Pages 231-243 in The Evolution of Horror, ed. Simon Bacon. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2023.
“Palimpsests and Other Texts: Christianity and Pre-Modern Religions in Folk Horror.” Pages 89-99 in Future Folk Horror: Contemporary Anxieties and Possible Futures, ed. Simon Bacon. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2023.
“Leviathan, Mythical Creature.” Pages 21-29 in The Deep: A Companion, edited by Marko Teodorski and Simon Bacon. Oxford, UK: Peter Lang, 2023.
“Biblical Theology, in History and Otherwise.” Horizons in Biblical Theology 44.1 (2022): 113-123.
“Social Liberalism and Orthodox Theology: Ideas of God in The Twilight Zone.” In The Many Lives of The Twilight Zone: Essays on the Television and Film Franchise, eds. Ron Riekki and Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2022.
“Religious Undead.” Pages 109-117 in The Undead in the 21st Century: A Companion, ed. Simon Bacon. Oxford, UK: Peter Lang, 2022.
“Messianism and the Horror Film: Transcendence and Salvation in The Mist (2007) and Martyrs (2008).” Pages 299-309 in T&T Clark Companion to Jesus in Film, ed. Richard Walsh. London: T&T Clark, 2020.
“’They Never Believe Me:’ Discourses of Belief in Mike Flanagan’s The Haunting of Hill House and #MeToo.” Pages 233-243 in Not a Well Place: Essays on The Haunting of Hill House, ed. Kevin W. Wetmore. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2019.
“Securing the Borders: Isolation and Anxiety in The Witch, It Comes at Night, and Trump’s America.” Pages 119-128 in Make America Hate Again: Trump-Era Horror and the Politics of Fear, ed. Victoria McCullum. New York/London: Routledge, 2019.
“Mama and Kristeva: Matricide in the Horror Film,” Post Script 36.1 (2017): 52-64.
“Text and Terror: Monster Theory and the Hebrew Bible,” Currents in Biblical Research 17.2 (2017): 1-16.
“Ideas of Maternity in Inside,” Horror Studies 6.1 (2015): 57-68.