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Arts

The Moscow Tattoo Convention returns June

02. History

Cultures

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Scottish Peasantry’s Perception of Witch Trials

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Events

Colombia’s Significance of Bands on Rock al Parque

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Reviews

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Women Writers, Madness, and Death

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The Scottish Crown, the Protestant Church, and Witch Trials

The Scottish Crown, the Protestants, and Witch Trials

Starting a Band: The Four Cities You Should Visit for Inspiration

Lesbianism and the Vampire in “Christabel” and Carmilla

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Music

The Tradition of Drinking to Death in Finnish Metal Lyrics

Black Metal and the United Kingdom Popular Press

The Defilement and Profaned Symbols in Extreme Metal

The Becomings of Satanist Musicianship Through Black Metal

Black Metal, Satanism, Evil, and the Essence of all Darkness

A Genre of Paradoxes and Dichotomies of Extreme Metal

Heavy Metal, and Cultural Markers for the End of the Century

History of Traditional Folk Metal and the Circle of Influence

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Kariwa to bestow their novel video ‘Metal-É’, this Friday

Carach Angren unique lyrical single, ‘This Is No Fairytale’

Fields Of The Nephilim returns with a ‘Prophecy’

Thyrgrim releases live footage while invading studio

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07. Exhibitions

Art exhibitions and other Performances

Ester Segarra and Zbigniew M. Bielak cryptic mindset

After travelling across London, the United Kingdom and waiting around for some time outside the entrance…

Contemporary Gothic: The Grotesque and Artificial Corpses

Gothic grotesque has become so pervasive precisely because it is so apposite to the representation of…

John Martin and the Promethean Theatre of Subversion

Max Adams, looks at the art of John Martin and how in his epic landscapes of apocalyptic scale one can see…

The Madame Tussaud’s Notorious Chamber of Horrors

The Chamber of Horrors was one of the attractions at Madame Tussauds in London, being an exhibition of…

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‘Dangerous Bodies’: Historicising the Gothic Corporeal

In this ambitious and comprehensive tome, ‘Dangerous Bodies’ engages with the…

Rediscovering Horror: From Graveyard Poetry to Popular Culture

‘Horror: A Literary History’, edited by Xavier Aldana Reyes, is divided into seven chapters which function as…

European Nightmares: The Horror Cinema in Europe Since 1945

One of the goals of European Nightmares is to oppose to the “old” Dollarshorror label with a more…

Festival Rock al Parque Opening Taken to the Extreme

The first day of Festival Rock al Parque came as a punch in your face full of extreme sounds and mosh…

Dark Tranquillity Memorable Performance at Festival Rock al Parque

Dark Tranquillity Performance at Festival Rock al Parque

Despite the unworthy contention caused by overall attendees, musicians and media press, Colombian…

Iggy Pop gives Bogotá an electric performance

Iggy Pop delivered an incredible show on Thursday October 6th at the Royal Center in Bogotá, Colombia treating…

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Corvin Castle of Hunedoara, Transylvania, Romania

A visitor’s guide to Corvin Castle, Transylvania, Romania

Gothic Art Architecture, Painting, Sculpture Across Europe

The Beginning of the Gothic Architectural Art in the Twelfth-Century

Romanesque Saxon Churches In Medieval Transylvania

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Spawn: The Creator and Creature Collective Redemption

Vertigo Digital Aesthetic Redefinition of Comic Books

The Phenomenal Lovecraftian Prestige in Hellboy’s Abstraction

‘Baltimore: The Red Kingdom’ twists the knife

A Goth in White: Safety and Identity in the Shadows

The Fiction of Feminine Desires: The Mother Goddess

Entitled to Hunger: Frederick Douglass and the Famine Irish

Gothic-Grotesque of ‘Haunted’: Joyce Carol Oates’s Abjections

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AExpo Literary Competition: Call for Entries

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From Anti-Social Tattoos to Self-Adornment Deviances

Neo-Victorian Tattooing in a Most Sincere Fashion…

Tattooing, Tattoo Collectors and Tattooists as Deviants

Body Modifications: Cultural Construction of the Inscribed

07. Culture

historical, and critical approaches

The Neo-Gothicism in ‘Dracula’, and ‘Ripper Street’ Television Series

Both neo-Gothicism and vampirism elide past and present, life and death, and shadow and substance — which…

Monsters in Culture: Folklore and Horror Movies

A way to differentiate the horror films from the other film genre is the presence of monsters…

Adapting the Cannibal: The Gothic Essence of Hannibal Lecter

Hannibal Lecter became an icon of an elegant, intelligent evil that is able to possess both primitive features…

Beginnings and Bloodlines of Vampires and Revenants

Of the particular vampire fiction that has, in the last 1960s, crossed over into film and subsequently redefined…

Aftergothic: Consumption, Machines, and Black Holes

Supernatural demons, natural forces (passion, guilt, sexuality), and most recently technological powers have…

From Gothic Girl to the Iron Maiden: How Liv Boeree Made Poker Engaging

Britain has a new Iron Maiden to worship in 2019. 34-year-old Olivia “Liv” Boeree has become one of the most popular…

“Do not Look… or it Takes You”: The Games of Horror Vacui

The aesthetic concept of horror vacui describes aspects of this obsession. Horror vacui is the fear of…

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Theater

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Investing in the Aesthetics of Horror as a Theatrical Genre

The theatre is certainly no stranger to gruesome, frightening, and disturbing moments of horror…

No Exit for a Dead Body: What to do With a Scripted Corpse?

In dramatic plays when Macbeth kills young Seyward on the field of battle, and Shakespeare…

The Theatre Historian in the Mirror and Transformation of Space

During the past few years, a rising chorus of voices have begun to address the new theatre…

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