Books
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The Human Spiritual Guide in the Apophthegmata Patrum
The theme of the guide from the dead was not so prevalent in the Kabbalah as it was among the…
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Fifteenth-Century Supernatural Forces, Demonic or Divine?
The fifteenth century, as throughout the Middle Ages, was concerned above all with correct errors and providing clarity, for, in…
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Spells, and Charms in Early European Witchcraft Literature
In 1917, in a lecture in Munich on ‘Science as a Vocation,’ Max Weber first articulated his notion of “the…
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The Obscure Subject of Desire of Lucretia Borgia
In ‘The Obscure Subject of Desire: Lucretia Borgia in Nineteenth-Century Literature’ Martina Mittag discusses literary representations of Lucretia Borgia in…
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Horror Literature Origins where Mankind Struggles to Exist
What horror literature has done chiefly was create an alternative world of gods and monsters beyond the realm of man,…
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Thickening our Victorian Sense of Female Sexual Fallenness
As a decidedly heterogeneous genre, Victorian pornography offers a wide range of sexual narratives, including those that directly challenge both…
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Supernatural and Madness in Victorian Gothic Literature
The Victorian era was arguably the most productive time for the Gothic genre. Laden with supernatural experiences and insanity around…
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The Creeping Re-Making Meaning in the Gothic Novel
The claim that horror and the Gothic “mean” has recently become something of an embarrassment to many theorists of and…
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Proto-Filmic Monstrosity of late-Victorian Literary Figures
At the origin of this thesis thus is a paradoxical observation: despite their questionable status as source texts for filmings,…
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Controversial, Degenerate Suicides in Late-Victorian Gothic Fiction
Recent scholarship has given attention to the degeneration theories in the era and the corresponding emergence of a “new” wave…
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The Devil’s Possession and Other Sinister Deities
The belief in demons is as old as humankind, and indeed, the Judeo-Christian Satan or Devil has his roots in…
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The Sublime, Romanticism and the Gothic Cosmic Horror
The notion of “cosmic horror” is closely associated with Howard Phillips Lovecraft and the school of weird fiction associated with…
