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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 that both tempted and terrified,…
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 with forbidden passions and hidden…
Mary Watson of Academized Unveils Expert Strategies for Crafting Compelling Essays on Gothic Literature
Watson advises students to immerse themselves in Gothic literature by reading widely across different eras and authors. Starting with classics like Frankenstein and progressing to…
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 one
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 his horror fictions
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 as therapy, and the interconnectedness…
‘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’
Hawthorne’s Romantic Chronotope of the Gothic Home
The poetics of the ‘House of the Seven Gables’ are explicitly Gothic and plainly recall the chronotopes of earlier Gothic works
