‘Something Wicked This Way Comes’ and the Gothic Carnivalesque
Bradbury’s favourite work of fiction, and the one that best exemplifies both the gothic and the carnivalesque qualities of his imagination, is ‘Something Wicked This Way Comes’ (1962)
The Cultural Historical Context of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
Mary Shelley conceived her creature at the height of the literary and philosophical period called Romanticism, and Frankenstein became the spirit of the wild, the rough, and the innocent
Women Writers, Madness, Death and Sylvia Plath’s Gothic
Sylvia Plath gives us something worse than the ice-cold, unsmiling, lurking, grim reaper
‘Witchfinder General’: From Historical Novel to “Horror” Film
One of the developments in the representation of witchcraft at the end of the twentieth-century is that the portrayal of witch-hunters moves from approbation to repulsion
Glanvill and Webster and the Literary War over Witchcraft
This article reflects upon the fact that studies related to witchcraft have been limited to a period of about one hundred and sixty years in English history
Left in the Gutter: A Brief History of American Comic Books
For three decades, most historians familiar with the medium have recognized that American comic books have matured beyond their humble beginnings as a monthly publication for children
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