28.11.2021

“The Candle Magic Spell Book: A Beginner’s Guide to Spells to Improve Your Life” by Bridget Bishop

Magick Matters

"Do you want to bring love, joy, and prosperity into your life? Candle magic is the easiest way for a beginner to get started with magic. You can use candle magic to manifest love, happiness, success, and more. Using easy to find ingredients and step-by-step instructions that anyone can follow, The Candle Magic Spell Book will change your life. In this book you'll learn: How to create a magical altar and why you need one. The right way to cleanse, charge, and carve candles for magical use. How different candle colors affect your magic and how to select the right color candle. Ways...>>

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27.11.2021

“The Biology of Horror: Gothic Literature and Film” by Jack Morgan

Magick Matters

"Unearthing the fearful flesh and sinful skins at the heart of gothic horror, Jack Morgan rends the genre’s biological core from its oft-discussed psychological elements and argues for a more transhistorical conception of the gothic, one negatively related to comedy. The Biology of Horror: Gothic Literature and Film dissects popular examples from the gothic literary and cinematic canon, exposing the inverted comic paradigm within each text. Morgan’s study begins with an extensive treatment of comedy as theoretically conceived by Suzanne Langer, C. L. Barber, and Mikhail Bakhtin. Then, Morgan analyzes the physical and mythological nature of horror in inverted comic terms, identifying a biologically grounded mythos of horror. Motifs such as sinister loci, languishment, masquerade,...>>

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27.11.2021

“Vampires, Burial, and Death: Folklore and Reality” by Paul Barber

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"In this engrossing book, Paul Barber surveys centuries of folklore about vampires and offers the first scientific explanation for the origins of the vampire legends. From the tale of a sixteenth-century shoemaker from Breslau whose ghost terrorized everyone in the city, to the testimony of a doctor who presided over the exhumation and dissection of a graveyard full of Serbian vampires, his book is fascinating reading."...>>

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27.11.2021

“Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of ’70s and ’80s Horror Fiction” by Grady Hendrix

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"Take a tour through the horror paperback novels of two iconic decades . . . if you dare. Page through dozens and dozens of amazing book covers featuring well-dressed skeletons, evil dolls, and knife-wielding killer crabs! Read shocking plot summaries that invoke devil worship, satanic children, and haunted real estate! Horror author and vintage paperback book collector Grady Hendrix offers killer commentary and witty insight on these trashy thrillers that tried so hard to be the next Exorcist or Rosemary’s Baby. Complete with story summaries and artist and author profiles, this unforgettable volume dishes on familiar authors like V. C. Andrews and R. L. Stine, plus many more who’ve faded into obscurity. Also included are recommendations...>>

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27.11.2021

“Journeys into Darkness: Critical Essays on Gothic Horror” by James Goho

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"The tradition of supernatural horror fiction runs deep in Anglo-American literature. From the Gothic novels of the eighteenth century to such contemporary authors as Stephen King and Anne Rice, writers have employed horror fiction to unearth many disquieting truths about the human condition, ranging from mistreatment of women and minorities to the ever-present dangers of modern city life. In Journeys into Darkness: Critical Essays on Gothic Horror, James Goho analyzes many significant writers and trends in American and British horror fiction. Beginning with Charles Brockden Brown’s disturbing novels of terror and madness, Goho proceeds to discuss the influence of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher on H. P. Lovecraft, who is...>>

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