Opinions
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The Unexpected Goth Inclusions on Popular Culture and Sports
Despite being frequently misunderstood and at times maligned in popular culture, the goth subculture has slowly made its way to…
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Introduction to the Pleasures of Horror and the Joy of Misery
This article investigates the allure of narrative genres, such as horror, that have historically been viewed as philosophically problematic owing…
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Masking and Sonic Abjection in Norwegian Black Metal
This article explores the connections between black metal and the transgressions of this music subculture, with masking at the intersection…
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The Defilement and Profaned Symbols in Extreme Metal
Extreme metal explores many different stories, myths, and symbols in expressing the particular aesthetic experience of defilement
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Edmonton and the Canadian Underground Metal Scene
This article examines extreme metal bands that became legendary in Edmonton and was well known across Canada for their atypical…
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Contemporary Gothic in Novels and Films and Why We Need It
The Gothic texts and films turn into a personal narrative that, in some way, connects the Gothic protagonist to the…
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A Brief Introduction to Death in Depressive Suicidal Black Metal
Depressive Suicidal Black Metal, a subculture primarily focused around death, with its own particular set of symbols, meanings, and music…
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Anti-War Sentiment and Transgression in Death Doom Metal
In this article, wie focus on two sub-styles of doom metal that took shape after the 1990s turn, namely stoner…
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Ethereal Materialism and Spectres in Victorian Ghost Stories
This article opens a discussion of how an increased awareness of things, bodies and epistemologies in the female-authored ghost story…
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Enter the Labyrinth: A Psychedelic Topography of Goth Music
This article attends to how goth music can be meaningfully compared to the effects of drugs like mescaline, psilocybin and…
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“A Creature Made Afresh”: Creating the Gothic American Child
This article delineates a range of literary endeavours engaging the gothic contours of child life in early to mid-twentieth century…
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‘She Played with Dolls and Killed’: Anne Rice’s Vampire Child
We thought to embrace that, asking the scholarly community for articles that considered “the Gothic in all its forms” and…
