Reviews
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Festival Rock al Parque Opening Taken to the Extreme
The first day of Festival Rock al Parque came as a punch in your face full of extreme sounds and…
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Dark Tranquillity Memorable Performance at Festival Rock al Parque
Despite the unworthy contention caused by overall attendees, musicians and media press, Colombian festivals such as Festival Rock al Parque…
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The First Supernatural Vampire Films in North America
Between 1895 and 1915, the subject of vampirism also experienced great change, with the supernatural characters of folklore and popular…
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Gothic-Grotesque of ‘Haunted’: Joyce Carol Oates’ Tales
In literature, as in the visual arts, images of the body have come to assimilate many of the collective changes…
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Haunting and Spectrality in Neo-Victorian Fiction
Ghosts, ghost stories and the tropes of haunting and spectrality are recurrent topics in contemporary literature and criticism.
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Exploring the Gothic in Latin America’s ‘El Fantasma del Convento’
Fernando de Fuentes Carrau’s film emphasizes darkness and mystery. Accompanied by effective sound effects of lamenting off-screen voices and howling…
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‘Gothicka: Vampire Heroes, Human Gods, and the New Supernatural’
‘Gothicka: Vampire Heroes, Human Gods, and the New Supernatural’ is an attempt to explain, as accurately and in the simplest…
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The Cultural Afterlife of the Victorian Freak Show
In her book, Helen Davies explores the representation in neo-Victorian re-imaginings of freak show performers and questions us about bodily…
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Egyptology And Occultism In Kenneth Anger’s ‘Lucifer Rising’
A follower of Thelema, the religion of infamous British occultist Aleister Crowley, Kenneth Anger’s work is imbued with occult themes…
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‘The Demonology Of William Of Auvergne: By Fire And Sword’
William of Auvergne, Bishop of Paris from 1228 until 1249, is one of the major figures in the medieval history…
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Owen Davies’ ‘Grimoires: A History of Magic Books’
This “history of magic books” might equally have been subtitled a “history of magic through books.” Not all forms of…
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A Review Of ‘Alan Moore and the Gothic Tradition’ Book
Reading Alan Moore’s works in relation to the Gothic tradition is like looking into the abyss: it is an overwhelming,…
