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SCREAM QUEENS.
A Layered Butter Volume.
She Survived. Then She Took Control.
SCREAM QUEENS.
A Layered Butter Volume.
She Survived. Then She Took Control.
SCREAM QUEENS is a collector’s volume of original artwork and critical essays exploring the women who reshaped horror from the inside out.
For decades, horror has served as one of cinema’s most subversive spaces for women – not simply as victims, but as figures who endure, evolve, and ultimately take control. What begins as fear transforms into authorship; what starts as survival becomes a form of power.
This volume traces that evolution across generations of film, pairing original artwork with critical writing that treats horror not as spectacle, but as a language – one shaped by transformation, resistance, and agency.
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Layered Butter: Scream Queens Includes:
- A curated art + film volume focused on women in horror
- Bringing together newly commissioned writing and original artwork
- Essays examining power, survival, identity, and authorship
- Spanning six decades – from Psycho to Pearl, Halloween to Scream
Why This Exists:
The volume traces the evolution of female protagonists in horror, from early portrayals to contemporary reinterpretations, positioning the horror genre as a lens through which broader cultural anxieties and shifts in gender dynamics can be understood. Topics include "Horror as a Feminist Language", "The Evolution of the Final Girl" and "Horror and the Female Body" to name a few of the stories we're developing.
Trusted by Real Film Institutions and Retail Partners:
Layered Butter volumes are collected and stocked by:
- Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
- TIFF
- Letterboxd
- Barnes & Noble
- Indigo
Previous editions have sold out.
Available at Launch:
- Standard + alternate cover editions
- Numbered slipcover edition
- Scream Queens photocards (Collect all Eight!)
- Collector Mini-Prints
- Limited fine art prints
- Campaign-exclusive rewards
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