“The Horror of Buckhead: Imagined Resistance to Urban Change in Anne Rivers Siddons’s The House Next Door (1978),” Studies in the Literary Imagination 22.1-2 (Fall 2022, actually published in Fall 2024).  

Examines Siddons’ assessment of the growth of Atlanta, Georgia since the 1970s focusing on Siddons’ use of horror to demonize the forces of change in the city and to showcase local Atlanta citizens’ disappointment with the impact of the development on the city’s wealthy area known as Buckhead.