Risas y escalofríos (Laughter and Chills)

Risas y escalofríos (Laughter and Chills) is a collective essay that deals with two motivations that, in principle, are antagonistic: fear and laughter, this year's leitmotiv. And yet, there they are, intertwined, defying aesthetic categories, contaminating genres and questioning our ways of perceiving. The confluence of horror and laughter has generated not only new ways of narrating, but also new ways of feeling and thinking. This journey includes the classics, campy excess, the gore carnival, lucid satire and rewrites of the ironic monster.

The authors are Violeta Kovacsics, Lluís Rueda, Guillermo Triguero, Víctor Matellano and Gerard Casau, under the coordination of Jordi Sánchez-Navarro and Ángel Sala.