Forget football and cheese. Maybe it should be famous for its shaggy werewolves and shape-shifting schoolteachers! The...
Month: October 2019
“It is our Torajan culture. It is what we do.” By Tommy Trenchard and Aurélie Marrier d’Unienville...
Some of the more famous and memorable cities of the dead. Originally published by ESRI, republished with...
One of the most popular tourist destinations in Paris—the Catacombs—was started as a solution to the intrusion...
Today the Paris Catacombs are illuminated by electric lights and friendly guides. But when Félix Nadar descended...
The 1918-1919 flu claimed millions of lives worldwide. Could it also have given birth to the viral...
Examining what made these cheap, sensational, highly illustrated stories so popular with the Victorian public. By Judith...
They needed others to see them, to draw people to their grief. Reader, he died. I’ve devoted...
Before conjuring Dracula, Bram Stoker poured his soul out to America’s poet. Introduction Ever since Bram Stoker...
A Christmas Carol isn’t the only spine-chilling Christmas ghost story from the pen of Charles Dickens. Introduction...
Young Goodman Brown is one of the scariest stories in American literature. Halloween is a great time...
The Shelleys, Byron, Polidori, and the birth of a timeless tale. The story of how Frankenstein was...
Images of witches and witchcraft offer a glimpse into the fears and superstitions of the past. Many...
An appropriate end, or beginning, for a ghost that will live many, many more lives. 1981 The...
Huguenots were not only believers in science, but also remained firmly committed to their belief in God...
Witch trials most often targeted a persecuted minority: women. Introduction “Witch hunt” – it’s a refrain used...
Art history students offer a bite-sized introduction to the bestiary of the European Middle Ages. Introduction The...
Next time you come across a toad, you might just want to reconsider becoming acquainted! If you...
Medieval books of beasts reflect the attitudes of the people who made them—including antisemitism, homophobia, misogyny, and...
Two curators this unique medieval book and its long influence. Introduction The bestiary—the medieval book of beasts—was...
The rituals now associated with Halloween have a complex relationship to this medieval Hallowmass. I had the...
The souls most likely to return to haunt the living were those whose burial rituals were not...
Ghost stories were the earliest form of literature in ancient China. By Emily MarkHistorian Introduction Ghost stories were...
Countries around the world today celebrate Halloween in one form or another. Introduction Halloween is among the...
Do you dream of enjoying the sunset in the Grand Canyon, having dinner with your beloved one...
Why the Kid’s enduring popularity? More than 1,000 books and essays have been published about Billy the...
The contribution of popular but historically inaccurate films—and literature—to the evolution of a misguided patriotism that fails...
I thought it was normal to “debate” the right to marry or hold a job. Now I...
A new study of nearly 500,000 individuals finds that many genes affect same-sex behavior, including newly identified...
For Georgian Londoners, the allure of electric animals was both intellectual and sensual. By Ruth Garde / 04.06.2017 Curator,...