Traditions
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Colonial Imperial Domination: Trauma, Gothic, Revolution
If there is one thing I would like to demonstrate in this article, it is the force of the truism…
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The Value-Based Ethics for Wicca, Wiccans, and the Clergy
This article examines the present state of Wiccan ethics and the social reality existing in many Wiccan communities.
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General Victorian Gothic-Horror Arts of the Uncanny
Initially, it is essential to state that there are different approaches to define the phenomenon of horror
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Sorcery, Heresy, and the Authority of the Christian Church
The Church in medieval Europe had a stronghold on the knowledge that was provided to the community
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The Funeral Ceremonies and Custom Rites of Ireland
As all religions are based upon the belief in a future life, so the funeral customs of a people, as…
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The Case of Entr’acte and Melodramatising the Gothic
In bringing the French tradition onto the British stage, Thomas Holcroft secularised the gothic ethos, creating a form of gothic…
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The Gothic Drama and the Coexistence of Ghostly Visitants
The appearances of ghosts, particularly in the works of Shakespeare, had always produced an extremely popular dramatic effect, one that…
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Early Reflections on the Making of the Female Witch
Whoever was named when the sieve turned and came to a full stop was proven to be able to bewitch
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The Muse of Horror: Traditions of Dreadful Imagining
Criticism addressing the literature of horror is notoriously lacking in an established terminology.
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The Gothic Tradition and the Origins of Queer Monstrosity
Homosexuality, a fear that was quickly adopted and exploited by the horror genre, and especially by the slasher subgenre, as…
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The Origins of the Female Vampire in Literature and Art
The origins of Lamia and Lilith, two of the earliest female vampire archetypes, in many ways initiated interest in the…
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Representations from the Freak Show to the Living Room
This article examines how cultural representations of deviant bodies vary based on historically informed narratives of bodily stigma.
