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...

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...

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 filmi...

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...

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.

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...

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...

Koji Wakamatsu's revolutionary politico-porno films of the 1960s and early 1970s remain the most powerful examples of their genre made in Japan. Wakamatsu mixed radical idealism (he was a known sympathiser with terrorist factions such as the Red Army), sexual violence, and underground film techniques to devastating effect in such classic films as Violated Angels, Shojo Geba Geba and The Angelic Orgasm. "Pop Avant-Garde Violence", updated from Jack Hunter's seminal film study Eros In Hell, ...

FREAKS (1932) is the sensational horror movie that dared to use real-life "human anomalies†in its tale of greed, betrayal and retribution in a travelling carnival. Dwarfs, pinheads, and the limbless are just some of the grotesque figures that provide Tod Browning's seminal work with its unique atmosphere of primal fear and revulsion. This special ebook provides an in-depth history and analysis of this classic cult movie, illustrated by rarely-seen publicity photographs, plus a bonus fea...

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...