The History Behind ‘American Horror Story: Freak Show’
Like Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk’s previous American Horror Story incarnations, Freak Show (2014) is keenly aware of its precursors….
Anthropology of Horror
Contemporary Folklore in the Digital Age
By Emma Louise Backe The word folklore likely conjures images of elves or faeries dancing beneath a harvest moon, or…
The Devil in Disguise: Modern Monsters and their Metaphors
By Emma Louise Backe Throughout the past decade or so, we’ve had a resurgence of monsters. Werewolves, vampires and zombies…
The Geek Anthropologist 