Culture
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Sorcery, Heresy, and the Authority of the Christian Church
The Church in medieval Europe had a stronghold on the knowledge that was provided to the community
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The Funeral Ceremonies and Custom Rites of Ireland
As all religions are based upon the belief in a future life, so the funeral customs of a people, as…
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A Motive to Murder: Victorian Infanticide’s Secretive Nature
Factors such as infanticide’s secretive nature, flawed legislation that acquitted the guilty and incomplete record-keeping made it tempting for families…
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Mother Shipton, the Witch of York and Prophetic Insights
The legend of Mother Shipton has wielded great power for centuries — from the turmoil of Tudor courts, through the…
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Cosmology: Time and History and the Creation Myths
Cosmology, strictly speaking, is the rational discussion of the cosmos, which developed in Greece from the sixth-century BCE onward
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Atavism: A Late-Victorian Gothic Darwinian Nightmare
Detailing the how and why the body became the locus of Gothic horror in the last decades of the century
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The Case of Entr’acte and Melodramatising the Gothic
In bringing the French tradition onto the British stage, Thomas Holcroft secularised the gothic ethos, creating a form of gothic…
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Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe and Malevolent Nurture
Academic writings on witchcraft have “a hidden agenda”: to show the academic to be sceptical, impartial, and sophisticated in contrast…
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The Gothic Drama and the Coexistence of Ghostly Visitants
The appearances of ghosts, particularly in the works of Shakespeare, had always produced an extremely popular dramatic effect, one that…
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Gothic Horror Film Trajectories, from 1960 to Present
A consideration of the filmic trajectories taken by Gothic cinema since Hitchcock’s ‘Psycho’ (1960), including an overview of some of…
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Love Your Zombie in Horror, Ethics, Excess and Paradise
Love your zombie is not an injunction to find some good-looking walking corpse and form a deep emotional and physical…
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Sorcery and the Little Demon of the Hearth and Home
The early centuries of the Middle Ages, when the legends were in the making, give all the impression of a…
