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Online Poker: Everything You Need to Know to Improve your Poker Skills
This article highlights the exciting world of online poker and provides valuable tips for improving your playing skills. Online poker…
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Victory in the Virtual Arena: From Horror Games to Triumph in Battle Royale Tournaments
In the vast world of entertainment, gaming tournaments have rapidly emerged as a significant force. From providing thrilling experiences for…
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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…
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Wicca, and Not a Form of Association with the Devil
It is not a form of association with the devil, nor do Wiccans even believe in the devil. In truth,…
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‘Vampirella’ Radio Plays as a ‘Sleeping Beauty’ Metaphor
‘Vampirella’ links Gothic horror and the fairy-tale through the Countess, a self-loathing vampire who imagines that she is ‘Sleeping Beauty’
