After our inception eleven years ago, we must confess that time is of the essence if we consider that much has been achieved in less than a decade. Regardless, further territorial expansion is definitely at our grasp and starting today, we gradually begin to turn our English pages into Spanish as it has become now, one of our main focuses of attention, therefore, welcoming a new era for us and a vivid nightmare to others.
Editorials
Witchcraft Acts Through History, and Christian’s Hideous Murders
Witches, fairies, demons, and spirits have not always been mythical creatures that modern societies often depict. Based on theological and intellectual ideas that the brightest minds of the time supported, the supernatural was intrinsically connected to the very reality in which early modern people lived.
The Year of Fearless Cultural Education and Other Horrors
On the occasion of the one decade of existence of this multicultural and subcultural media celebrated on October 1st, 2020, we had already set ourselves three years ago the stage with a certain level of “maturity”. As for 2021 and onwards, we will attempt to go with “unpredictable sustained maturity”.
Settling Australian and New Zealand Horror Movies on the Map
This Australasian horror editorial is an important step forward in putting Australian and New Zealand horror movies on the map of film and cinema studies as a subject worthy of intellectual debate.
The Study of Art Historiography as an Academic Discipline
May 1st, 2019, marks the first time that we as an Open Access medium, devote time to publish articles on the study of art historiography. Our central purpose is to understand why the history of art gets written in a way that it does and how has it taken shape as an academic discipline.
Understanding Gothic Studies, Genre, and Academic Subculture
What are Gothic Studies? Appropriately for a genre that so often revels in ambiguity, even the word has always held an approximate, mutable, contested meaning.
The Will to Understand Witchcraft and Magic in This Era
Many people are vaguely familiar with the history of witchcraft and magic. The topic attracts regular media interest. Yet it is also a subject around which swirls much misunderstanding, misinformed opinion, and dubious facts.
Halloween Newsstands Behind the Keepers of the Culture
Newspapers and magazines were the print sources which introduced Halloween to Americans outside of the Irish immigrant community in the years following the Civil War. Industrialisation and improved printing technologies made magazines and newspapers more readily available in greater number throughout the country, both of which were bought and read by women.
Celebrating its Eighth Anniversary Through Utopias
From a modest beginning, when the medium was founded eight years ago, we established a tradition in which each monthly issue opened with an editorial. To begin with, these editorials were always written by myself but, after a while, we decided to abandon the idea because although editorials were appropriate in a newspaper, they were less appropriate in a medium such as ours.
Educating Toward a Culture of Open Access Without Fear
Shifting from ink on paper to digital text suddenly allows us to make perfect copies of our work, from isolated computers to a symbiotic globe-spanning network of connected computers it suddenly allows us to distribute comprehensive copies of our work with a worldwide audience at virtually no cost.
