Studies in the Fantastic [#19]

Studies in the Fantastic is a journal devoted to the speculative, fantastic, and weird in literature and other arts. The contents of this special issue include: “Gendered Violence in Fantasy and Horror Games: An Introduction” by Marina Fontolan and Geneveive Newman; “Weak Men and Strong Women: Portrayals of Gender-Based Violence in Tomb Raider and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt” by Kenzie Gordon and Sarah Stang; “Playing the White Knight: Constructing Masculinity through Violence in Assassin’s Creed II” by Ash Rezvani; “Violent Spectacle of the Wrong Body: Transphobia in The Last of Us, Part II” by Brandon Blackburn; “’Isn’t that how you’ve made me?’: Feminine Dualities and Victorian Sensibilities in Bloodborne” by Mark Hines and Riley Wilkins; “She’s a Nun and a Witch: Abjection in Fantasy RPG Narratives” by Chaz Callendar; “Digital Dread: A Comparative Analysis of the “Final Girl” in Supermassive Games’ The Quarry and The Dark Pictures Anthology: The Devil in Me” by Carlos Ramírez-Moreno and Antonio Campos-Méndez; “The Player Monstrosity: When Games Create Monsters Designed to Be Defeated: A Review of Player vs. Monster” by Marina Fontolan; and “Racism? In My Science Fiction? It’s More Likely than You Think: A Review of Speculative Whiteness” by Steven Mollmann.