Haunted Screen

J. M. Tyree is the editor of Film Quarterly and the coauthor (with Michael McGriff) of Our Secret Life in the Movies, an NPR Best Books selection. A former Capote-Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford, he has published in American Short Fiction, Brick, McSweeney’s, New England Review, Sight & Sound, and in the BFI Film Classics series of books on film from Bloomsbury and the British Film Institute. He is an associate professor in the Cinema Program at VCUarts.

"Tyree knows his way around both film history and compelling fiction, and this should make for a thoroughly compelling combination here.” —Reactor"An excellent, sometimes scary, and also quite hilarious book.” —3 Quarks Daily"An impressive entry into the literary lineage.” —Vol. 1 Brooklyn"Tyree’s accomplished prose and the narrator’s tormented consciousness provide pleasure even in the absence of anything otherworldly.” —Washington Independent Review of BooksPraise for J. M. Tyree"Like the mystery, suspense and horror films it venerates, The Haunted Screen unspools in a darksome and dreamlike state. An unsettling and bewitching piece of weird fiction." —Michael Kelly, World Fantasy Award Winning editor"The Haunted Screen is chilling and hypnotic modern horror. On every page, through the dark magic of his prose, Tyree creates a deeply layered and unsettling atmosphere, a twilight forest haunted by the ghosts of Sebald and Hitchcock. A brilliant cinematic dream of a book.” —Jim Gavin, creator of Lodge 49“This beautiful, devastating little book is quite unlike anything else I’ve ever encountered . . . it’s specifically engineered to break your heart.” —Washington Post