Gender Coding in Horror Video Games

Horror is one of the most popular genres in video games. There have been many works analyzing gender in horror films and books. Renowned horror scholar Barbra Creed wrote Phallic Panic: Film, Horror and the Primal Uncanny and The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis. Then there are books that discuss gender in video games such as Feminism in Play by Kishonna Gray. There have even bee…