Opinions
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Sonic Visions and Urban Canvases: How Interactive Art Is Transforming Public Spaces
Urban centers have long been the stage for cultural expression, but something fascinating is happening across cities and festivals globally—an…
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Ozzy Osbourne: The Final Bow—Why He Should Prioritize Health Over One Last Performance
Ozzy Osbourne’s final show sparks debate—should he push through his ongoing health struggles for one last performance, or prioritize his…
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Forbidden Incantations: Spells and Charms in Early European Witchcraft
Witches, cast as moral transgressors, became scapegoats for societal anxieties. Their forbidden spells, chanted in esoteric tongues, summoned supernatural forces…
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Beneath the Veneer: Neo-Victorian Deviance and the Macabre Logic of Perversion
Neo-Victorian literature unveils a haunting portrayal of the Victorian era, peeling back its polished veneer to reveal a world rife…
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Dissecting Taxidermy and the Body Horrors During Victorian Gothic Tales
The article discourses the materiality of the human body through “grotesque preservation”, and thereby, the preservation and destruction duality into…
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Horror and the Gothic’s Utility as a Cultural Resource and Critical Tool
While cultural theory elitists have tended to write off familiar monsters as little more than cheap fads of mass culture,…
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Damsels and Demons: Transgressive Females from Clarissa to Carmilla
Biologically impossible, morally offensive and aesthetically dichotomous, vampires epitomise transgression, they are life and death; repulsion and magnetic attraction in…
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The Strange Connection Between Politics and Extreme Metal
From Slayer’s ‘Angel of Death’ in the 1980’s to the Norwegian black metal scene in the 1990’s to the current…
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Black Metal takes Norway’s Everyday Racisms to the Extreme
Black metal’s nationalistic racism can be seen as an “extreme” reflection of the xenophobia and cultural nationalism proliferating throughout Norwegian…
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Horror from the Soul: Gothic Style in Allan Poe’s Horror Fictions
Edgar Allan Poe’s inheritance of gothic fiction and American literature tradition combined with his living experience forms the background of…
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Victorian Spiritualism and the Rise of Modern Media Culture
The Fox sisters are widely depicted as the first spiritualist mediums of history, and the Hydesville cottage is considered the…
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Gothic Infections: Storytelling as Therapy in Dark Narratives
This article proposes a reading of Jane Austen’s ‘Northanger Abbey’ (1818) as a case study for discussing infectious literature, storytelling…
