Anna Bogutskaya in Conversation with Yasmina Floyer
21st October 2025
Waterstones Enfield Church Street Branch
We are delighted to welcome Anna Bogutskaya to Waterstones Enfield Church Street branch for a Halloween event to celebrate the paperback publication of Feeding the Monster: Why horror has a hold on us. Anna is an award-nominated London-based author, critic, film programmer and creative producer. She is the co-founder of the horror film collective The Final Girls, a screening series turned popular podcast. As a writer, she been published in BBC Culture, Little White Lies, The Guardian, Tortoise, The Face, LA Review of Books, TimeOut, Sight & Sound and more.
Horror has been embraced by mainstream pop culture more than ever before, with horror characters and aesthetics infecting TV, music videos and even TikTok trends. Yet even with the commercial and critical success of The Babadook, Hereditary, Get Out, The Haunting of Hill House, Yellowjackets and countless other horror films and TV series over the last few years, loving the genre still prompts the question: what’s wrong with you? Implying, of course, that there is something not quite right about the people who make and consume it. In Feeding the Monster, Anna Bogutskaya dispels this notion once and for all by examining how horror responds to and fuels our feelings of fear, anxiety, pain, hunger and power.
Join us on 21st October 2025 where Anna will be in conversation with Yasmina Floyer to discuss all things horror within her formidable book which Esquire described of as “A must-read for anyone seeking a fresh perspective on the genre…”
Doors open at 18.30 for a 19.00 start.
Please contact the store if you have access requirements.
