Witchcraft Acts Through History, and Christian’s Hideous Murders
This month’s edition examines the impacts of the Witchcraft Acts through history on how witches were identified, prosecuted, and executed during the early Christian modern period
Editorials
The Year of Fearless Cultural Education and Other Horrors
Although celebrating the past ten successful years were at the forefront last year, thinking about the next decade is already underway
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
This month’s editorial shares some light on our expansion as an Open Access medium, giving some insights regarding the recent inclusion of Arts (painting and sculpture) on our publishing schedule
Cultural Fashions and History: Artist’s Unsuspected Mythologies
The question that should be discussed in this editorial is the following: what does a historian of religions have to say about the contemporary artistic milieu?
Understanding Gothic Studies, Genre, and Academic Subculture
Gothic studies, the specialist academic field that explores the Gothic text, has developed substantially over the last twenty-five years.
The Will to Understand Witchcraft and Magic in This Era
The origins of magic were already being debated in antiquity, and histories of the witch trials appeared in Europe before the last of the trials and executions had ended.
Halloween Newsstands Behind the Keepers of the Culture
Until the late nineteenth-century, Halloween amounted to barely anything more than a couple of informational inches of column space in October newspapers.
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
In truth, digital technologies have created more than one cultural revolution, so let us call this one the open access revolution.
Spanish Horror Cinema and Orphaned Cultural Learnings
Since its introduction to the cinema in the early twentieth-century, the horror genre has functioned to evoke anxiety and visceral responses from its audience.
Heavy Metal Studies Unlocking Cultural, Open Access Research
Heavy metal studies present a diverse range of current research drawing on sociological and cultural theory, by exploring the gendered nature of scholarship and the myths of gendered belonging and exclusion in the wider scene. From the heritage-based black metal toward the traditional death metal music and performance.
The Audacity of Horror, or Paradoxes of the Heart
The idea that the interest in horror literature might somehow cause the reader to become violent, is merely another argument against reading horror.
Teaching Horror Literature in a Multicultural Classroom
As a genre, horror tends to be marginalized in literature because it is often mistakenly perceived to be inappropriate for the classroom environment.
An Aesthetic Discourse About Alternative Cultures
Our medium draws on alternative cultures, even as it takes its inspiration from new desires of publishing and interdisciplinary modes of thought and research.
