Introduction

An introduction to the latest issue of Horror Studies , which also considers the current crisis in higher education and argues that its needs to be understood in a wider context, both in terms of history and of the more general attack on expert knowledge. In the process, it argues that a defence of higher education will not be achieved by dreams of going back to a golden age in the academic past, or without a broader fight against the resurgence of the far right internationally. The introduction also provides a brief outline of the various articles featured in the current issue.