Readings
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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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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 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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Jacques Collin de Plancy’s Delineation of the Demonical
Ed Simon explores the work and how at its heart lies an unlikely but pertinent synthesis of the Enlightenment and…
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Twentieth-First-Century Contemporary Books on Witchcraft
From the later fifteenth-century, which brought forth the monumental ‘Malleus Maleficarum,’ to our day, writings on witches and witchcraft have…
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Dutch Gothic Literary Culture as an Epiphenomenon of Change
In order to explain the marginality of the Gothic novel within eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Dutch literature, we would like to…
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The Contemporary History of British Women’s Horror
In focussing specifically on British women’s horror, it is useful to look at its origins and development up to the…
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Contemporary British Women Horror Fiction Writers
British women’s horror fiction is sometimes quite conventional, its main feature being incarcerations, sexualised cruelties and dangerous spaces.
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Where Are Ann Radcliffe’s Delicate Bodies Hidden?
The veil of propriety cautiously drawn across Ann Radcliffe’s fiction ultimately proves that all is too vulnerable to the body’s…
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Gothic Tales on How to Murder a Beautiful Woman
All beauty must die, and in Edgar Allan Poe, the relationship between beauty and death echoes another duality: love and…
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Gothic Tropes and Forms in Dark Literary Modernity
John-Paul Riquelme ensures that the insufficient critical attention to twentieth-century Gothic tropes and forms has indeed not vanished.
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Jack V. Haney’s Irreligious Russian Folktales
Professor Jack V. Haney’s series, ‘The Complete Russian Folktale,’ narratives may be less familiar to many readers and are more…
