Opinions
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Black Metal in Contemporary Art as a Way of Expansion
This semiology actually reveals that Black Metal makes the most of art to enlarge its field of influence.
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Religious Necrophagy in Lovecraft’s “Corpse-Eating Cult”?
In a story already brimming with gruesome details, one particularly nauseating note stands out in Howard Phillips Lovecraft’s ‘The Hound’.
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Death, the Gothic, and Reflections on Musical Matters
One’s mortality was all too obvious. However, things are rather different in modern Western societies.
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Cryptography as Living Death: The Horrors of Rupture
This chapter reconsiders how the arts can function as means to democratic ends after Theodore Adorno’s comment on the impossibility…
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Theosophical Studies in Occultism versus the Occult Arts
Their representations of the powers it confers on upon man, and of the means to be used to acquire them…
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Edgar Allan Poe’s Spooky Vision of Grotesque and Gothic
The Gothic genre has evolved from the late 1700s to the twenty-first-century, to include sub-genres such as Southern Gothic and…
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The Werewolf, the Malevolent Witch, and the Warlock
The malevolent witch developed historically not merely in opposition to, but “in part, from” that of the male sorcerer, or…
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Revolutionizing Victorian Magic to Conquer the Spirits
Victorian magic relied heavily on the nineteenth-century occult and esoteric developments as well as upon an invented tradition of Western…
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The Uncanny: Towards a Spatial Definition of the Gothic
The Gothic style of the high medieval period fell out of vogue, but its impact on culture survived as a…
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The Demonological Frame of Mind During Early Christianity
Underpinning both ancient and modern Christian conceptions of demons, possession and exorcism lay the exorcisms performed by Jesus.
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The Artist’s Cultural Fashions and History of Religions
The question that I should like to discuss in this article is the following: what does a historian of religions…
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The Forgotten Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft
Bart Walter Scott’s ‘Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft’ were published by John Murray, which appeared between the years 1829 and…
