Culture
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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…
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European Witch Trials Foundations in Popular Culture
Certain recent historians of witchcraft have adopted their mode of inquiry from anthropology
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Early Reflections on the Making of the Female Witch
Whoever was named when the sieve turned and came to a full stop was proven to be able to bewitch
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Ritual Mythologies and Witchcraft in the Fifteenth-Century
The European witch trials that began in the fifteenth-century have been explained in many ways, but always assuming that witchcraft…
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The Horned Gods and Goddesses of the Witches
The earliest known representation of a deity is in the Caverne des Trois Frères in Ariège, and dates to the…
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Suffering in Rhythm: The ‘Haunting Melody’ in Film Noir
The trope of the ‘haunting melody’ recurs in film noir of the classic era (1940-1959)
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Telling Scary Stories: “Cannot Sleep, Clowns Will Eat Me”
Among the earliest forms of human self-awareness was the awareness of being meat
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The Realization of the Witch in the Human Sciences
While such invisible forces have gone by many names, one can track a historical persistence of this epistemological concern with…
