Culture
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An Historical Outline of the Concept “Grotesque”
Exploring the grotesque in more recent fiction, which has therefore been treated in a less comprehensive way than was planned…
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American Myths, Legends, and Tall Tales of Zombies
Myths are understood as ways in which cultures interpret mysteries of the cosmos and of life, and then impart these…
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The “Monstrous” Phenomena and Monumental Crime
The most gripping and recurrent visualizations of the “monstrous” in the media and film lay the most repressed fantasies and…
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The Age of Psychological Serial Violent Murder
Despite technological and societal advances, crimes of an inexplicably violent nature still permeate contemporary civilizations throughout the world.
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The Development of Stained Glass in Gothic Cathedrals
Stained glass is arguably one of the most important aspects of Gothic cathedrals as its popularity rose, mainly during the…
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Torture Museums Exhibiting Historical, Cultural Cruelty
The field of memory and history of torture and cruel punishment is not free from the epistemic divisions that characterize…
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Sea Robbers of all Nations: Pirates of the “Golden Age”
Pirates have probably been around for as long as people have travelled and traded on the seas, with their proto-anarchist…
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An Ethnographic Inquiry of a Coven of Contemporary Witches
The image of witchcraft presented both by informants and literature is a very diverse, highly eclectic belief and behavioural system.
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Salem Witch Hunt and Others in the Seventeenth-Century
Historians of witchcraft know the long shadow cast by the Salem witch hunt of 1692, related to cultural aspects of…
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The Concept of the Undead, and a Carnival of Terrors
The concept of the Undead, and of the beings that haunt the deepest recesses of our minds, continue to both…
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Blood, Disease and the Early Modern Vampire Reports
The Age of Reason and Enlightenment have provided the real stimulus for the vampire, as this period saw a spate…
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Lovecraftian Horror and the Dream of Decadence
‘Lovecraftian horror’ is rooted in late-nineteenth-century cultural fears and desires that arose in response to a renewed interest in the…
