Scream Queens is a new volume of Layered Butter exploring the women who shaped horror cinema. Through original artwork, essays, and interviews, the book celebrates the genre’s most iconic survivors, creators, and cultural forces.
A collector's volume of original artwork and critical essays exploring the evolution of women in horror. From Psycho and Halloween to Scream, Possession, and Pearl, SCREAM QUEENS traces the evolution of women in horror, exploring how the scream queen grew from victim to survivor to cultural icon – and what that journey reveals about who gets to survive.
A PROVEN COLLECTOR'S SERIES
SCREAM QUEENS is the eighth volume in Layered Butter's ongoing collector's series celebrating cinema through original artwork and critical essays. More than 8,000 books collected worldwide. The first editions of our first five volumes are now completely sold out and will never be reprinted.
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EXCLUSIVE ARTWORK Featuring newly commissioned artwork created exclusively for this volume!
Art by Matthew Therrien
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INSIDE THE BOOK
• Original artwork inspired by iconic women of horror
• Newly commissioned essays and criticism
• Explorations of survival, identity, trauma, and transformation
• Covering six decades of horror cinema, from Psycho (1960) to Pearl (2022)
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