The shocking true story of one of America’s most gruesome and unforgettable serial killers.In the quiet town of Plainfield, Wisconsin, police uncovered a house of horrors—furniture made from human skin, skulls turned into bowls, and a hidden life of unimaginable depravity. At the center was Ed Gein, a reclusive farmer whose crimes would horrify a nation and shape the darkest corners of true crime history.This gripping account delves into Ge...

Manifesting Spirits is an exploration of contemporary trance and physical mediumship at a private spiritualist home-circle called the Bristol Spirit Lodge. Located in a garden on the outskirts of Bristol, the Lodge is a wooden shed specially constructed for the purposes of mediumship development and spirit communication. Through a combination of ethnographic observations in seances - including his own experiences of mediumship development - and interviews with spirits and their mediums, Hu...

A dream road-trip turned national nightmare. A missing-person hashtag that seized the world’s feeds. A forensic hunt for truth that exposed the dark engine of domestic abuse.Vanished – The Shocking Murder of Gabby Petito pulls you inside every mile, message, and misstep that led from #VanLife bliss to an autopsy table in the Tetons. Drawing on police body-cam footage, GPS breadcrumbs, digital forensics and unprecedented social-media crowdsourcing, true-cri...

Jeffrey Dahmer: Anatomy of Atrocity pulls you far beyond the headline horrors and into the machinery that created – and ultimately caged – America’s most infamous cannibal‐killer. True-crime investigator Jack Hunter dissects Dahmer’s life through five relentless lenses that turn a tabloid nightmare into a razor-sharp case study of psychology, law, and society.Monsters aren’t born in darkness; they grow in the blind spots we refuse to see.

Engaging the Anomalous is a collection of essays written by Jack Hunter between 2010-17. Together, the essays push toward the development of a non-reductive, participatory and experiential anthropology of the paranormal. Over the course of the book, Hunter surveys:• Trends in anthropology's engagement with the paranormal• The anthropology and neuroscience of spirit possession• The history of Spiritualism and the phenomena of physical mediumship• The ov...

Exploring how technological apparatuses “capture” invisible worlds, this book looks at how spirits, UFOs, discarnate entities, spectral energies, atmospheric forces and particles are mattered into existence by human minds. Technological and scientific discourse has always been central to the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century spiritualist quest for legitimacy, but as this book shows, machines, people, and invisible beings are much more ontologically entangled in their definitions and ...

Sacred Geography: Conversations with Place considers the meaning and nature of sacred spaces and landscapes. It asks profound questions, weaving together historical insights, philosophical musings, and contemporary studies to explore the sacredness embedded within our environments. In this volume, contributors explore these themes with a phenomenological approach, allowing places to speak for themselves. They ask: What draws life to a particular place? How do places maintain their...

Scholars of religion have begun to explore horror and the monstrous, not only within the confines of the biblical text or the traditions of religion, but also as they proliferate into popular culture. This exploration emerges from what has long been present in horror: an engagement with the same questions that animate religious thought – questions about the nature of the divine, humanity's place in the universe, the distribution of justice, and what it means to live a good life, among many...

Folklore, People and Place is a contribution towards better understanding the complex interconnectivity of folklore, people and place, across a range of different cultural and geographical contexts. The book showcases a range of international case studies from different cultural and ecological contexts showing how folklore can and does mediate human relationships with people and place.Folklore has traditionally been connected to place, telling tales of the land and the rea...

Exploring how technological apparatuses “capture” invisible worlds, this book looks at how spirits, UFOs, discarnate entities, spectral energies, atmospheric forces and particles are mattered into existence by human minds. Technological and scientific discourse has always been central to the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century spiritualist quest for legitimacy, but as this book shows, machines, people, and invisible beings are much more ontologically entangled in their definitions and ...

The idea in Post Green: Literature, Culture, and the Environment is not to create another binary like East/West, but rather a call for a shift in the order of perception. The contributors signal a movement from the conventional understanding of green thinking—acknowledging human-centered limitations of the green approaches and recognising the immense possibilities and holistic perspectives that a symbiotic human-nature perspective offers. This book proposes to move beyond the monoculture o...

Born in Gothenburg, Sweden in 1950, Christina Lindberg began nude modelling for men's magazines around 1968, first in Swedish publications such as FIB Aktuellt, and then in more international magazines such as Playboy and Penthouse. This lead to appearances in a succession of sexploitation and exploitation movies, the best of which date from 1970 to 1974. Her film career trailed off after an experience during the production of a hardcore porn film by Gerard Damiano; Lindberg quit during film...