Health
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Porphyria: The Unusual Vampiric Blood Disorder
One of the most interesting “vampire diseases” is known as porphyria, a rare condition characterised by blood irregularities, turning individuals…
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Historical Deadly Asylums in the United Kingdom
Suicidal patients constituted a significant proportion of the annual admissions to nineteenth-century public lunatic asylums in the United Kingdom.
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Reimagining the Nature and Theory of Art-Horror
This article presupposes that art-horror is an emotion, one reflected in the emotional responses of characters to the monsters in…
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Gaming Horror’s Horror and Affect in Survival
The formations arising out of the specific material of digital games have suited well the “gamification” of horror.
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Clinical Vampirism in John George Haigh’s Murders
Clinical vampirism is a recognisable, although rare, clinical entity characterised by periodic compulsive blood- drinking, and uncertain affinity with the…
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A Depth View of the Crone and the Dark Feminine
As increasing numbers of women enter what are viewed as the crone years, interest in this ancient figure is on…
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The Gothic Female And The Wicked Anorexia Nervosa
At the beginnings of the Gothic, the female was the object of consumption and thus was denied appetite and was…
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Exploring Mental Health Through The Lens Of Gothic
The linking of mental illness and the Gothic is prevalent and perverse with representations of its dark side of the…
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‘In The Flesh’ Of The Poisonous Gothic Medical Culture
‘In the Flesh’ addresses concerns against the medical culture in which poisonous pharmacology threatens a Gothicized neoliberal way of life.
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Toward A Psychoanalytic Postmodern Horror Theory
A look at “horror” both as a narrative genre and as a trans-genre, in which it has become entangled with…
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The Gothic Death-Like Awakening Of Taphephobia
Sigmund Freud suggested that “taphephobia,” was linked to wider terrors relating to the undead and that it manifested a return…
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The Fall And Rise Of The Movie ‘Psycho-Killer’
Many readers will find the frequent use of the word “psycho” in this article offensive. This is however, the way…
