Culture
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The Enduring Sexual Appeal of Vampires
Moving with cat-like grace, he steps from a moonlit alley into a flood of neon lights. Only his piercing eyes…
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Bram Stoker and the Creation of the ‘Dracula’ Novel (1897)
The aim of this article is to demonstrate how the famous figure of a vampire created by Bram Stoker in…
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Six Suggestions for Finding the Perfect Filming Location
Whether you are an aspiring or seasonal videographer, you want to ensure the perfect shot every time, and that is…
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Witchcraft and Powerful Women Throughout the Middle Ages
While women were known to be capable of both good and dark magic since ancient times, the depiction of witchcraft…
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The Japanese Peculiar Subculture of Lolita with a Goth-Loli Focus
This article underlines the context in which the Lolita subculture has emerged, the reason why young women started to dress…
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The Monstrous Other and Virtual Vampires Transgressions
In a literal interpretation, vampires are representative of the fears of the cultures which produce them
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The Supernatural Trials Concerning the Witchcraft Act, 1735
The Act of 1735 has been persistently misrepresented as a survival of medieval superstition and a measure designed for the…
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The Folklore Vampire: The Monstrous Other
This horrifying suspicion that each human being could potentially be naturally deviant was an enormous threat to the function of…
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Vampirism as a Malevolent or Medical Source?
Folkloric accounts bear witness to these “vampires” being discovered gorged and bloated, with dried blood encrusted around the mouth, having…
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From the Entertainment Springs of Cinematic Horror Thrills
“Thriller” was a film that provoked the kinds of physical reactions that are usually associated with horror today, and a…
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A Life of Crime and the Thriller as Horror Film
Crimes and horror films were seen as a brilliant blending of established trends rather than as the creation of a…
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Vampires in the Early Christian Era
The great irony of this period is that as the Church moved to fuse the non-Christian mythologies, it would be…
