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Horror And The Holy
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Author : Kirk Schneider
language : en
Publisher: Open Court
Release Date : 2013-12-01
Horror And The Holy written by Kirk Schneider and has been published by Open Court this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-01 with Psychology categories.
Dr. Schneider draws upon a detailed and telling analysis of eleven well-known horror stories: Dracula, Frankenstein, The Phantom of the Opera, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Invisible Man, The Incredible Shrinking Man, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Birds, Forbidden Planet, Vertigo, and Alien. He finds that a spiritual understanding of life can be attained through horror. Classic horror steers a middle path between fanaticism and despair: the path of wonderment. Horror teaches us that the human personality is paradoxical, that revulsion and disgust are the obverse of excitement and freedom, and that both poles are vital to individual, social, and ecological well-being.
Holy Horror
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Author : Steve A. Wiggins
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2018-12-03
Holy Horror written by Steve A. Wiggins and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-03 with Performing Arts categories.
What, exactly, makes us afraid? Is it monsters, gore, the unknown? Perhaps it's a biblical sense of malice, lurking unnoticed in the corners of horror films. Holy Writ attempts to ward off aliens, ghosts, witches, psychopaths and demons, yet it often becomes a source of evil itself. Looking first at Psycho (1960) and continuing through 2017, this book analyzes the starring and supporting roles of the Good Book in horror films, monster movies and thrillers to discover why it incites such fear. In a culture with high biblical awareness and low biblical literacy, horrific portrayals can greatly influence an audience's canonical beliefs.
Holy Terrors
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Author : Arthur Machen
language : en
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Release Date : 2018-11-22
Holy Terrors written by Arthur Machen and has been published by Read Books Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-22 with Fiction categories.
This vintage book contains a collection of chilling and macabre stories by Welsh author and mystic Arthur Machan. The stories include: “The Brightest Boy”, “The Tree of Life”, “Opening the Door”, “The Marriage of Panurge”, “The Holy Things”, “Psychology”, “The Turanians”, “The Rose Garden”, “The Ceremony”, “The Soldiers' Rest”, “The Happy Children”, “The Cosy Room”, “Munitions of War”, “The Great Return”, and more. These unsettling supernatural tales are not to be missed by lovers of horror or mystery fiction, and they would make for worthy additions to allied collections. Arthur Machen (1863 – 1947) was a Welsh author and renowned mystic during the 1890s and early 20th century who garnered literary acclaim for his contributions to the supernatural, horror, and fantasy fiction genres. His seminal novella “The Great God Pan” (1890) has become a classic of horror fiction, with Stephen King describing it as one of the best horror stories ever written in the English language. Other notable fans of his gruesome tales include William Butler Yeats and Arthur Conan Doyle; and his work has been compared to that of Robert Louis Stevenson, Bram Stoker, and Oscar Wilde. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.
Bad Seeds And Holy Terrors
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Author : Dominic Lennard
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2014-10-09
Bad Seeds And Holy Terrors written by Dominic Lennard and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-09 with Performing Arts categories.
Since the 1950s, children have provided some of horror's most effective and enduring villains, from dainty psychopath Rhoda Penmark of The Bad Seed (1956) and spectacularly possessed Regan MacNeil of The Exorcist (1973) to psychic ghost-girl Samara of The Ring (2002) and adopted terror Esther of Orphan (2009). Using a variety of critical approaches, including those of cinema studies, cultural studies, gender studies, and psychoanalysis, Bad Seeds and Holy Terrors offers the first full-length study of these child monsters. In doing so, the book highlights horror as a topic of analysis that is especially pertinent socially and politically, exposing the genre as a site of deep ambivalence toward—and even hatred of—children.
Divine Horror
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Author : Cynthia J. Miller
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2017-05-24
Divine Horror written by Cynthia J. Miller and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-24 with Performing Arts categories.
From Rosemary's Baby (1968) to The Witch (2015), horror films use religious entities to both inspire and combat fear and to call into question or affirm the moral order. Churches provide sanctuary, clergy cast out evil, religious icons become weapons, holy ground becomes battleground--but all of these may be turned from their original purpose. This collection of new essays explores fifty years of genre horror in which manifestations of the sacred or profane play a material role. The contributors explore portrayals of the war between good and evil and their archetypes in such classics as The Omen (1976), The Exorcist (1973) and Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1968), as well as in popular franchises like Hellraiser and Hellboy and cult films such as God Told Me To (1976), Thirst (2009) and Frailty (2001).
Sacred Terror
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Author : Douglas E. Cowan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Sacred Terror written by Douglas E. Cowan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Performing Arts categories.
Sacred Terror examines the religious elements lurking in horror films. It answers a simple but profound question: When there are so many other scary things around, why is religion so often used to tell a scary story? In this lucid, provocative book, Douglas Cowan argues that horror films are opportune vehicles for externalizing the fears that lie inside our religious selves: of evil; of the flesh; of sacred places; of a change in the sacred order; of the supernatural gone out of control; of death, dying badly, or not remaining dead; of fanaticism; and of the power--and the powerlessness--of religion.
Holy Terrors
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Author : Arthur Machen
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2017-11-15
Holy Terrors written by Arthur Machen and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-15 with categories.
An excellent horror book for individuals who wants to overcome fears.
Religious Horror And Holy War In Viking Age Francia
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Author : Matthew Bryan Gillis
language : en
Publisher: Trivent Publishing
Release Date : 2021-12-31
Religious Horror And Holy War In Viking Age Francia written by Matthew Bryan Gillis and has been published by Trivent Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-31 with History categories.
Religious Horror and Holy War in Viking Age Francia explores how authorities in western Francia used horror rhetoric to cast Christian soldiers, who robbed the poor and the church, as monsters that devoured human flesh and drank human blood. Adapting modern literary horror approaches to medieval sources, this study reveals how such rhetoric served as a form of spiritual weaponry in the clergy's attempts to correct and condemn wayward military men. This investigation, therefore, unearths long-forgotten Carolingian thought about the dreadful spiritual reality of internal enemies during a time of political division and the Northmens depredations. Yet such horror also informed a new understanding of Christian heroism that developed in relation to the wars fought against the invaders. This vision of heroic soldiers, which included military martyrs, culminated in ideas about holy war against the pagans. Thus Carolingian religious horror and holy war together belonged to a body of ideas about the spiritual, unseen side of the church's cosmic conflict against evil that foreshadowed later medieval Crusading thought.
The Horror Of The Profanation Of The Most Holy Eucharist
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Author : Mark Kreis
language : en
Publisher: Xulon Press
Release Date : 2015-03-20
The Horror Of The Profanation Of The Most Holy Eucharist written by Mark Kreis and has been published by Xulon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-20 with Education categories.
This book broaches the theme of the profanation of the Eucharist in the very bosom of the Roman-Catholic Church in North America which has been going on for approximately a half century. The problem consists in pouring the remaining Eucharistic Blood of Christ into the sacrarium (a special sink usually located in the sacristy of the church) after the distribution of Holy Communion during Mass. The essence of the matter is that this practice is strictly prohibited in the Catholic Church, and those who pour the Consecrated Wine into the sacrarium incur an automatic penalty of excommunication reserved to the Apostolic See (Canon 1367 of the Code of Canon Law and Paragraph 107 of the instruction on the Eucharist Redemptionis Sacramentum issued by the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments). For Catholics, who believe in the real presence of the LORD Jesus Christ in the Eucharist, the aforementioned practice is a great liturgical and moral abuse. As a priest, I want to stir up the conscience of those who act contrary to the faith of the Catholic Church, and I dedicate the present book to this issue.
Holy Horror
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Author : Steve A. Wiggins
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2018-12-14
Holy Horror written by Steve A. Wiggins and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-14 with Performing Arts categories.
What, exactly, makes us afraid? Is it monsters, gore, the unknown? Perhaps it's a biblical sense of malice, lurking unnoticed in the corners of horror films. Holy Writ attempts to ward off aliens, ghosts, witches, psychopaths and demons, yet it often becomes a source of evil itself. Looking first at Psycho (1960) and continuing through 2017, this book analyzes the starring and supporting roles of the Good Book in horror films, monster movies and thrillers to discover why it incites such fear. In a culture with high biblical awareness and low biblical literacy, horrific portrayals can greatly influence an audience's canonical beliefs.