Most of us would rather not think about the fact that we’re immersed in an electromagnetic soup of radio waves.
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Hiding in plain sight, they’re subtle reminders that we’re being watched, tracked, studied.
Jordan Peele’s latest horror film challenges viewers to consider technology, surveillance, other worldly life and the making of spectacle through different lenses — including the eyes of animals.
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When it comes to our ethical duties to animals, representation and respect should go hand in hoof.
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In his 1972 novel The Stepford Wives, Ira Levin powerfully dramatised women’s suburban alienation and men’s resistance to feminist change. Michelle Arrow traces its enduring influence.
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Since the second world war, changing ideas about how children should behave have made us fear independent and competent children.
Boris Karloff as Frankenstein’s monster.
The possibilities of ‘more human than human’ artificial intelligence and the dangers of playing God and are not new – they’re the subjects of one of the world’s first science-fiction novels.
An online audience is reading the vampire novel for the first time, en masse.
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A newsletter sends out chronological snippets from the 125-year-old novel ‘Dracula.’ Fans on the internet go wild.
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Archive 81 on Netflix uses “found footage”, a film technique beloved by the horror genre, in ways we haven’t seen before.
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Many of Count Orlok’s characteristics have gone on to be canon in the lore of vampires.
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Urban legends are shaped by the people who tell them and where they’re from. That’s why you’ll hear so many versions of the same story.
The extensive damage done to lead character Ethan’s hands in ‘Resident Evil’ sparked online commentary.
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Game design engages players through emotional identification and physical participation, and relies heavily on the role of human hands in knowing and navigating the world.
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Long past Margaret Atwood’s novel, the new season is increasingly violent – and the audience will find themselves increasingly numb.
An engraving of the sabbath from Pierre de Lancre’s Tableau de l'inconstance des mauvais anges .
A historian reviews Pablo Agüere’s award-winning Netflix film Akelarre and explains why it is one of the best films around on the early modern witch-hunt.
Netflix’s series The Haunting of Hill House was inspired by the book of the same name by Shirley Jackson.
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From ghosts and meddling staff to interesting decorating choices, the houses in these books make for great reading.
Dani, The Haunting of Bly Manor’s Governess.
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Be they ghosts or her mind playing tricks? The uncertainty is the draw of the 1898 classic The Turn of the Screw.
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Latin American filmmakers wanting to alert the world to human rights abuses are turning to the supernatural to tell compelling stories
John Wyndham’s book The Midwich Cuckoos is set to be adapted for the screen for the third time. The tale of otherworldly children resonates with audiences today as much as it did in 1957.
Elisabeth Moss stars in the latest adaptation of H.G. Wells’ novel.
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Invisibility has been used to indulge fantasies of good and evil, level social critiques or warn of the dangers of power in the wrong hands.
Bloody and unbowed: Claes Bang as Dracula.
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The latest version of the Gothic vampire chiller is brought to you with the trademark humour of writers Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss.
Ebenezer Scrooge is confronted by the apparition of his dead business partner, Jacob Marley.
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Sometimes the unknown is more appealing than the truth – and it has kept ghost hunters in business for generations.
Rural settings are often painted as scary in British folklore.
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The British countryside is supposed to be peaceful and idyllic. Don’t be fooled.