An Encyclopedia of Curiosities and Horrors
The expanded edition of The Art of Horror Movies: An Illustrated History is a truly phenomenal book. Its pages are adorned not only with diverse artwork, from…
The Repressed Spirit of a Modern Monster: Understanding Horror in Japan
Modern Japan’s association, and deep involvement with, popular culture in general, and a very specific horror culture in particular, is as immediate as it is uncontroversial. To…
The Birth of the SAS: Butcher-and-Bolt in a Sea of Sand
Today, the SAS (‘’Special Air Service’’) are as revered as they are feared, with their practices, aims, and methods shrouded in mystery. Most cannot join, and those…
Gnostic Reality and Horror Theology: Matt Cardin’s Guide to Modernity’s Apocalypse
The horror genre, despite boasting literary classics such as Frankenstein, Dracula and the Castle of Otranto (to name but a few), is not often associated with high…
007: The Timeless Story of a Blunt Instrument
“James Bond, with two double bourbons inside him, sat in the final departure lounge of Miami Airport and thought about life and death.” This sentence from Goldfinger…
The Romantic Imagination in Egypt: A Review of Elizabeth Fay’s “Romantic Egypt: Abyssal Ground of British Romanticism”
Elizabeth A. Fay. Romantic Egypt: Abyssal Ground of British Romanticism. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2021. What is Egypt? At first, this question appears to have many…
The End of “Orthodox” Theology in the West? A Review of David Bentley Hart’s “You Are Gods”
David Bentley Hart. You Are Gods: On Nature and Supernature. South Bend: University of Notre Dame Press, 2022. You Are Gods is a book which, it…