Saint Valentine was imprisoned for secretly marrying couples disobeying the edict of Roman Emperor Claudius II, and beheaded on February 14, 271 AD

The nineteenth-century uses of the supernatural implied an ideological intent and constituted a political threat within the European secular–Catholic conflicts

Anyone inquiring into the nature of paranormal experiences and events does so with some apprehension and at some peril to himself

This article begins from the position that “disbelief” in relation to the paranormal (commonly referred to as “scepticism”) is itself worthy of study

An exhaustive, vertically integrated theory of horror fiction incorporates the cultural dimension for a biocultural approach, one that recognises evolutionary underpinnings and cultural variation

This article argues that an evolutionary perspective is useful in explaining the appeal of horror, but also that this perspective cannot stand alone