Author: Matthew Beaumont
Matthew Beaumont
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Monsters in Culture: Folklore and Horror Movies
A way to differentiate the horror films from the other film genre is the presence of monsters of either supernatural…
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Vampirism as a Malevolent or Medical Source?
Folkloric accounts bear witness to these “vampires” being discovered gorged and bloated, with dried blood encrusted around the mouth, having…
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The Gothic, Violent Intervention of ‘Une Semaine de bonté’
In the year that ‘Murder on the Orient Express’ came out, as I have indicated, another novel featuring a murder…
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The Bloodied Compartment of ‘Murder on the Orient Express’
Agatha Christie’s ‘Murder on the Orient Express’ is in one sense a reinscription of Émile Zola’s naturalist masterpiece ‘La Bête…
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Agatha Christie, Max Ernst, and Neo-Victorianism in the 1930s
This article offers a sketch of attitudes to Victorianism between the First and Second World Wars, in the form of…
