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A taste for blood: Vampires, Catholicism, and popular culture

October 22, 2021 Eleanor Bourg Nicholson 10

During the late seventeenth and eighteenth century, a major outbreak of vampiric hysteria exploded across Eastern Europe. Documentation of purported vampiric incidents was erratic and hysterically exaggerated. This great vampire fright came upon the heels […]

New book demonstrates J.R.R. Tolkien was more than a Carpenter cartoon

January 16, 2021 Michael Ward 5

Like me, if you know anything about Tolkien’s life, it is probably owing to the work of Humphrey Carpenter, who cornered the market in Tolkien scholarship in its early years, producing both the first major […]