Playing the American Nightmare: Japanese Horror Games at the Millennial Turn Cover

.blurhash-client-img { display: none !important; }

Playing the American Nightmare: Japanese Horror Games at the Millennial Turn

American, British and Canadian Studies

Volume 45 (2025): Issue 1 (December 2025)

By: Christian Wilken

Open Access

|Dec 2025

Download Article

Download the full article as a PDF file.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/abcsj-2025-0017 | Journal eISSN: 1841-964X | Journal ISSN: 1841-1487

Journal RSS Feed

Language: English

Page range: 102 - 130

Published on: Dec 8, 2025

Published by: Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

Publication frequency: 2 issues per year

Keywords:

Japanese horror games,

adaptation theory,

transmedia storytelling,

American cinema,

cultural hypertext,

millennial horror,

ludic narrative

Related subjects:

Literary studies,

Anglo-American literature,

Anglo-American literature, general,

Topics in literary studies,

Literary studies and linguistics

© 2025 Christian Wilken, published by Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Previous article Volume 45 (2025): Issue 1 (December 2025)Next article