Culture
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The Seventeenth-Century Witch’s Devilish Attributes
Witch-mania, the conditions of mediaeval life, by their harsh pressure upon the poor and needy among women, should have provided…
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The Anunnaki, the Vampire, and the Structure of Dissent
In yet another reinvention of the vampire — courtesy of rightist conspiracy theorists — vampires are cast as belonging to…
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The Muse of Horror: Traditions of Dreadful Imagining
Criticism addressing the literature of horror is notoriously lacking in an established terminology.
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Science, Medicine and Witchcraft Historiography
Scholars of witchcraft have often been pioneers of new forms of historical study and interdisciplinary developments.
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Femmes Fatales and Film Noir’s ‘Zeitgeist’ in the 1940s
Film noir has been one of the most debated, most discussed and most contested terms in studies of film history…
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Encountering Eastern Vampires: Institutions of the Undead
Anne Rice’s American vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac thus expressed his disappointment at meeting the Eastern European vampire
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Ernst Haeckel “Monism” and the Unity of Culture
Exploring Ernst Haeckel’s unique idea of “monism” which lies behind the mesmerising illustrations of his most famous work, ‘Kunstformen Der…
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Frederik Ruysch and the Anatomical Art of Dead and Dying
Frederik Ruysch, known for his remarkable “still life” displays which blurred the boundary between scientific preservation and vanitas art.
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Devil Worship in France and the First Witnesses of Lucifer
The witnesses of Lucifer are in all cases attached to the Latin Church, whether as priests or laymen.
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United on a Possible Revival of Witchcraft Secret Societies
To the superficial glance, it might seem that he who would urge a revival of witchcraft is confronted by a…
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The Secret Doctrine: The Theogony of the Creative Gods
To thoroughly comprehend the idea underlying every ancient cosmology necessitates the study, in a comparative analysis, of all the great…
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The Gothic Tradition and the Origins of Queer Monstrosity
Homosexuality, a fear that was quickly adopted and exploited by the horror genre, and especially by the slasher subgenre, as…
