Psychology
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Compulsion, Self Destruction and the Films of Laird Cregar
As has been demonstrated elsewhere, the horror film and the thriller were not only closely linked during the 1940 but…
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Extreme Metal Music, Sadness and Anger Processing
The claim that listening to extreme music causes anger, and expressions of anger such as aggression and delinquency have yet…
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Frightening Yourself: The World of Horror Video Games
Reformulated nowadays, Howard Phillips Lovecraft might as easily have suggested that the appeal of the spectrally macabre demands that one…
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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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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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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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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…
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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…
