Culture
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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).
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Medusa’s Metamorphosis And Monstrous Violation
Medusa is positioned as a woman whose possession of power makes her a threat to be eliminated, a reviled monster…
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The Popular French Horror Films Language
The recent emergence of a crop of successful French-language horror films manifests a multiplicity of transformations in Québec cinema in…
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The Dullahan and Banshee in Irish Celtic Fairy Tales
An introduction analysis of the portrayal of the Dullahan and Banshee in Celtic fairy tales and the connection to cultural…
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The Victorians And The Influence On Modern Vampires
Feared in mythology from early civilization up to the modern age, it is ‘Dracula’ that infused the symbolism of the…
