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The Ninth Year: The Haunting of Swill House

Category: longform

“Believe It or Not, I Am Shaken by This”: The 1983 Cabbage Patch Kids Riots

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A Retrospective on Britain’s Worst Ever TV Special: Naked Jungle

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The Surgeon, the Eunuch Maker, and the Curious Ethical and Legal Status of Voluntary Amputation

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The Sprawling Horror Collaboration of the SCP Foundation

So, for Halloween season this year, I wanted to write a little about one of my favourite mediums for modern horror – the internet. I’m going to be sharing a few articles about various ways horror has taken shape online, starting right here, with a look into the SCP. Stay tuned for some more pieces in this vein (ooh, gory) over the coming week if that’s something that interests you, and check out a couple of my other articles on the subject here and here, too!

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“Like She Wanted Me to Know All About It”: The Greenbrier Ghost, and True Crime’s Uneasy Relationship with the Supernatural

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Disability, Domestic Abuse, and the Death of Lacey Fletcher

Please note that this article will contain graphic discussions of neglect, extreme physical injury, and domestic abuse.

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Autassasinophilia, Fetish Forums, and the Early Internet: The Murder of Sharon Lopatka

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The Matter of the Mummy of Manchester

A woman paranoid about being buried alive after witnessing her living brother’s near-internment, an eccentric local doctor, and a mummy that would haunt Manchester (literally and figuratively) for centuries – let’s about about Hannah Beswick, the Mummy of Manchester.

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A Deep Dive into The Queerbaiting Heist of the Century: t.A.T.u.’s All The Things She Said

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“In The End, I Watched Him Go”: The Criminal Case of Suicide-Baiting via Internet

Please note that this article contains discussions of suicide, self-harm, and depression, including discussions of specific suicide methods.

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