Ghost Stories in History with June Gregory
Sirens of Scream
English - July 09, 2017 12:00 - 58 minutes - 54 MB - ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsSociety & Culture Leisure Video Games horror fan chicks and horror scary stories women in horror horror stories horror junkie fright sirens podcast horror movies horror podcast Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
A lot of modern horror tropes can be traced back to ancient stories. In this episode, friend of the Sirens and lover of horror and history, June Gregory, teaches us all some fascinating historical horror facts!
Recommendations:
Upstate Horror - horror resource
Pam Wishbow - Seattle artist
Demonic - movie
Sirens of Scream are:
Melissa Megan- @Lissapunch
Jackie DeVore- @Jackietherobot
Sierra Houk- @Sierrahouk
Guest:
June Gregory
Sirens on Twitter- @Sirensofscream
Email - [email protected]
Banner art by Menton3
Editing by Drew Devore
Break Music - Manic Street Preachers - South Yorkshire Mass Murderer
Outro Music - Zombina & The Skeletones - That Doll Just Tried to Kill Me
Recommended Reading:
Clarens, Carlos. An Illustrated History of Horror and Science Fiction Films. Boston, MA: Da Capo Press, 1997.
Curtis, Barry. Dark Places: The Haunted House in Film. London: Reaktion Books, 2009.
Felton, D. Haunted Greece and Rome: Ghost Stories from Classical Antiquity. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1990.
Goldstein, Diane with Sylvia Ann Grider and Jeannie Banks Thomas. Haunting Experiences: Ghosts in Contemporary Folklore. Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2007.
Joynes, Andrew. Medieval Ghost Stories: An Anthology of Miracle, Marvels, and Prodigies. Suffolk, UK :Boydell Press, 2006 (New Edition)
Johnston, Sarah Iles. Restless Dead: Encounters between the Living and the Dead in Ancient Greece. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1999.
Kovacs, Lee. The Haunted Screen: Ghosts in Literature and Film. Jefferson, NC: McFarland Company, Inc., Publishers, 2005.
Leeder, Murray, ed. Cinematic Ghosts: Haunting and Spectrality From Silent Cinema to the Digital Era. NY: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.
Peeren, Esther and Maria del Pilar Blanco, eds. Popular Ghosts: The Haunted Spaces of Everyday Culture. NY: Bloomsbury Academic, 2010.
Svehla, Gary with Susan Svehla, Cinematic Hauntings. Baltimore, MD: Midnight Marquee Press, 2011.
Ogden, Daniel. Magic, Witchcraft and Ghosts in the Greek and Roman Worlds: A Sourcebook. NY: Oxford University Press, 2009 (2 nd edition).