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Holy Horror

The Bible and Fear in Movies

by Steve A. Wiggins ...

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 ... Read more

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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
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Holy Horrors

An Illustrated History of Religious Murder and Madness

by James A. Haught ...

When you think of saints, you envision stained-glass pictures of piety. But the truth can be horribly different. Consider Saint Pius V: As Grand Inquisitor, he sent Catholic troops to kill 2,000 Waldensian Protestants in southern Italy. After becoming pope, he sent Catholic troops to kill Huguenot Protestants in France. Pius also launched the final crusade against Muslims, sending a Christian ... Read more

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When you think of saints, you envision stained-glass pictures of piety. But the truth can be horribly different. Consider Saint Pius V: As Grand Inquisitor, he sent Catholic troops to kill 2,000 Waldensian Protestants in southern Italy. After becoming pope, he sent Catholic troops to kill Huguenot Protestants in France. Pius also launched the final crusade against Muslims, sending a Christian
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Horror and the Holy

Wisdom-Teachings of the Monster Tale

by Kirk Schneider ...

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 st... ... Read more

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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 st...
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Christ’s war

Holiness, heroism and horror in Carolingian poetry, c.730–c.900 CE

by Dr Matthew Bryan Gillis ...

Series series Artes Liberales
Christ’s war examines Carolingian holy war from the forging of their empire in the eighth century to its dissolution in the late ninth century during the Northmen’s attacks. It argues that the Franks understood their wars to be holy when their soldiers were without sin and, therefore, were holy themselves. God heard their prayers as they begged for divine aid, and he helped them overcome and ... Read more

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Christ’s war examines Carolingian holy war from the forging of their empire in the eighth century to its dissolution in the late ninth century during the Northmen’s attacks. It argues that the Franks understood their wars to be holy when their soldiers were without sin and, therefore, were holy themselves. God heard their prayers as they begged for divine aid, and he helped them overcome and
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Holy Terrors

by Arthur Machen ...

Where the beautiful and the terrifying meet. A final testament to the hidden, sublime realities of the world.Holy Terrors is a major collection of works by Arthur Machen, compiled toward the end of his career. It brings together some of his most potent and disturbing short fiction, presenting a comprehensive look at his core philosophy: that the world is a fragile illusion veiling an ultimate ... Read more

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Where the beautiful and the terrifying meet. A final testament to the hidden, sublime realities of the world.Holy Terrors is a major collection of works by Arthur Machen, compiled toward the end of his career. It brings together some of his most potent and disturbing short fiction, presenting a comprehensive look at his core philosophy: that the world is a fragile illusion veiling an ultimate
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Bad Seeds and Holy Terrors

The Child Villains of Horror Film

by Dominic Lennard ...

Series series SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema
Examines the complexities and contradictions that arise when the monsters in the movies are children.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 ... Read more

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Examines the complexities and contradictions that arise when the monsters in the movies are children.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
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Holy Horrors of Thy Heart

by Scarlet Marie ...

Holy Horrors of Thy Heart is brought to you by personal thoughts and emotions collaborating into my own personal literature of poems and events and things I have personally experienced and dealt with throughout my life and marriage that I feel many women experienced but might be too contrite or too scared to express. Hopefully this gives other women a relatable outlet. ... Read more

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Holy Horrors of Thy Heart is brought to you by personal thoughts and emotions collaborating into my own personal literature of poems and events and things I have personally experienced and dealt with throughout my life and marriage that I feel many women experienced but might be too contrite or too scared to express. Hopefully this gives other women a relatable outlet.
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