Culture
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The Esoteric Camera Obscura Spiritual Manifestations
The connection between the camera obscura space and the uncanny has been prevalent since the inception of the medium, and…
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Earlier Photography And The Esoteric Camera Obscura
The light and the shadows, the fleeting trace of life captured through photography that could be codified into an image-icon…
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The Werewolf And The Nineteenth-Century EcoGothic
As a hybrid creature, both human and animal, the werewolf is in a unique position to interact with both rural…
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Creepy Fiction Films by the World’s Quirkiest Directors
Must-see films for those in need of an aesthetically stunning visual feast, and wickedly eerie storylines meant to bring chills…
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The Vampiric Fiction, Folklore, and the Fandom Menace
This article discusses the public’s thirst for vampires seems as endless as their thirst for blood yet, older accounts of…
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The Death Link in Nineteenth-Century Photography
Although the nineteenth-century is much closer to our own era, these photographs and other illustrative representations forged a concept of…
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The Poltergeist Curse Motivated to Cause Mischief
They have traditionally been described in folklore and parapsychology, as a type of ghost or other supernatural entity which is…
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Horror Films that Deserve a Closer Watching
Horror novel adaptations, remakes and hand-held documentary style, films that fall in the grotesque, murderous, spooky genre have hit the…
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Revisiting Boris Karloff’s Hideous Frankenstein
‘Frankenstein’ or, ‘The Modern Prometheus’ is a novel written by English author Mary Shelley that tells the story of Victor…
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‘El Abrazo de la Serpiente’ with Colombian Heart, Darkness and Two River Voyages
‘El Abrazo de la Serpiente’ is our very first Colombian movie article that approaches the sophisticated beauty of a country…
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The History Behind Gothic Architecture Innovations
Florentine historiographer Giorgio Vasari (1511–1574), the Italian painter, architect, writer and art-historian, was the first to label the architecture of…
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The Secular Rise of Gothic Architecture Across Europe
The characteristic of architecture we now call Gothic first emerged in northern France in around 1140. It evolved during the…
