Culture
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The Science of Esotericism and Occult Discourses
“Science” became increasingly inflated when adopted by the occult and new religious discourses in the second half of the nineteenth-century…
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Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories From The Past
The darkest events of twentieth-century history and the ghosts that have provided a powerful imagery for the darkness of the…
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The Bride of Frankenstein Finds a Mahlerian Voice
In 1935, Universal Pictures released James Whale’s ‘Bride of Frankenstein,’ a horror film featuring a monster denied the power of…
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Christian Cruel Responses to Witchcraft and Sorcery
Over two hundred people who were accused of witchcraft and sorcery were burnt to death in South Africa between the…
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Art and the Black Death Arrival in the Medieval World
In the fourteenth-century, a devastating pandemic disease known as the Black Death was responsible for the tragic death of millions…
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The Essence Of The Vampires Being Gothic Villains
Vampires do not breed as humans; they infect their victims to cause their death ― a physical, ethical or spiritual…
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Origins Of Vanth In The Etruscan And Celtic Worlds
While images of such Vanth figures are sometimes independent of other associated scenes; they are often drawn from Greek mythology.
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Victorian Murder, Execution, And The Criminal Classes
Crime in verse connects innovations in Victorian poetry to developments in the discourse of crime interrelated and often contradictory concepts.
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Serial Murder Stories In Nineteenth-Century London
Serial murder metropolitan popular culture necessitated dramatic shifts in the tale of serial killing and narratives of violence in the…
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Punishing The Criminal Corpse And Its Afterlife
The 1752 Murder Act brought two post-execution punishments — dissection and hanging in chains — as an integral part of…
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The Guilty Pleasures Of American Gothic Reform
Gothic as a genre is particularly concerned with identifying and exposing anachronisms in social law and behaviour.
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La Llorona’s Dreadful Prestige Through the Centuries
La Llorona can be traced to pre-Hispanic cultures in Mexico. However, the presence of the phantasmagoric figure has spread across…
