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Tag Archives: Gothic science
Science and the Evolutionary Monster
I really enjoyed this article, ‘Evolutionary Theory and its Monstrous Wonders’ by Donna McCormack. It resonated with the ideas regarding hybridity and monstrosity that I have been exploring in my chapter on Whitley Strieber’s werewolves. It has also got me … Continue reading
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Tagged evolution, Gothic science, horror, Monsters, popular culture, science, SF, television, The X-Files, transformation, Werewolves
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The Science of Lycanthropy
The website for ‘The Federal Vampire and Zombie Agency’ has a page dedicated to the science of Lycanthropy. Whilst there are plenty of other pages and books dedicated to pseudo-scientific frameworks for the existence of monsters – Max Brooks’ The Zombie … Continue reading
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Tagged Gothic, Gothic science, lycanthropy, medicine, Pathology, science, Vivisection, Werewolves, wilderness
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