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The Odd Tale of Blackwoodian Terror and the “Medico-Popular”
Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, the most influential and innovative literary periodical of the era, cultivated innovative ideologies, discourses, and literary forms…
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Nineteenth-Century Designs of Insanity in Victorian Fiction
Madness for nineteenth-century writers was both an alien state of mind and something that could afflict “our nature” at any…
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Art of the Dead: Mangling the Dissected, Past and Present
Art of the dead or the idea that the anatomisation of the body is tantamount to “hacking”, “distorting”, or “disfiguring”?…
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A Real Case Report on Self-Cannibalism in Psychosis
Only nine previous cases of auto- or self-cannibalism (autosarcophagy) have previously been reported in the literature as a psychiatric illness.
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Anatomist’s Knife and Dissection in Victorian England
In Victorian times, dissection was then regarded with horror. Even at present, the prejudices of the people on this subject…
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Getting Out of the Asylum in the Nineteenth-Century
The confinement of the insane in purpose-built institutions spanned the modern western world, between 1800 and 1914
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Using Heavy Metal to Promote Scientific Thinking
The value of using examples in heavy metal is that it sheds light directly on the relationship between harm and…
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The Weird, Wicked Possessions and Schizophrenia
Demonic possession can manifest with a range of bizarre behaviours which could be interpreted as psychotic disorders with delusions and…
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Body-Snatchers and the Legal, Grave Medical Problem
The activities of the eighteenth-century body-snatchers are among the most lurid and entertaining episodes in the history of medicine.
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The Pestilence, Lynchings and Desecration of Corpses
Vampiric pestilence was believed to be spread within families or village, leading to the rite of the so-called second burial…
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The Nightmare Experience and Witchcraft Accusations
The “nightmare” experience was also wrongly identified in other accounts by relating to supernatural beings, witchcraft, and other spirits of…
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Why is Horror so Pleasurable to Human Nature?
Attempts have been made to answer this question, generally about the nature of horror texts with the distinctive character of…
