Everyone is going ‘goblin mode’, but does the trend unfairly malign goblins of folklore?
- Associate Professor of Research, University of Hertfordshire
The ‘Disneyfication’ of fairies has helped us forget their darker origins.
A tale of vampirism would have been shocking to readers at the time if was published, not because of its monsters, but its politics.
Written in the same house party as Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Polidori’s creature was based on the “mad, bad and dangerous to know” Lord Byron.
New research is uncovering medieval legends about the undead in Britain.
How the vampire transitioned from folkloric peasant to Byronic Lord.
Collective environmental guilt could be leading to a rise in werewolf sightings in the English countryside.
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