Suppose for a moment that we have eternity. Of course, it is a conceptual eternity, not an objective one. A weakness, just one, like the sun or silver, is enough for death to exchange its optional facet for an unquestionable…
“Everything comes in circles. […] The old wheel turns, and the same spoke comes up. It’s all been done before, and will be again.” Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Memorable, impacting and thought – provoking War Quotes quotes that remind…
Day of the Dead (Dia De Los Muertos) is a two day holiday (November 1 and 2) that reunites the living and dead. Families create ofrendas (Offerings) to honor their departed family members that have passed. These altars are decorated…
What Characterizes Gothic Fiction? Gothic fiction is characterized by the elements of fear, horror, the supernatural and darkness, as well as by characters such as vampires, demons, heroes, heroines and villains. Other elements that characterize this type of fiction might…
In today’s society there are some values that set the appropriate beauty trends and canons. Millions of people are obsessed with their physical appearance and do anything to try to be perfect. But is it something only current? The truth…
It is clear that the word “vampire” today evokes fantasy monsters. Regarding its origin and evolution, works on the subject such as the classic one by Summers (1928) and the most recent one by Beresford (2008), erroneously consider as “vampires”…
The Ghost Club is the oldest organisation in the world associated with psychical research. It was founded in 1862 but has its roots in Cambridge University where, in 1855, fellows at Trinity College began to discuss ghosts and psychic phenomena….
Even though we could translate the English adjective “creepy” as “chilling” (or “horrifying”, to name two common examples) we would be incurring a gross distortion. It is impossible to define why something is “creepy”, however, we could all identify it…
The image is familiar, and even tiring, to all horror movie lovers: an academic vampire hunter, for example, Abraham Van Helsing, faces a vampire who flees in terror in the presence of a crucifix. The idea that vampires hate crosses…
Anne Rice, a name and a legend. A person who whose lush, best-selling gothic tales reinvented the blood-drinking immortals as tragic antiheroes, has died. She was 80. In a post on his mother’s public Facebook page, Rice’s son and frequent…
