Culture
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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…
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Toward a Gothic Criminology Of Monstrous Progeny
Rather than being established as the demonic other that must be exorcised, the serial killer is identified as society’s “monstrous…
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A Scanty Post-Mortem History Of Spirit Photography
Human history records innumerable efforts upon the part of men to penetrate the veil of death, including venturing into post-mortem…
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The Cultural Supernatural In Mid-Victorian Britain
Historians have long observed the resurgence of interest in the supernatural in the Mid-Victorian British period, still increasingly dismissed as…
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Runecasting Gothic Literature And The Other Revival
Runic guidebooks are a popular genre of divination manual designed to facilitate “runecasting” (divination using runes).
