Horrors of History

He died in , becoming the last casualty of the Lincoln assassination nearly half a century after the fact.

Incidentally, the house in Hanover where he lived is looking for a caretaker! This could be a new start for us, Wendy. When most people picture the High Renaissance, they probably imagine Italian folks in posh clothes admiring the works of da Vinci, Michelangelo, and others. What they do not usually picture is this:. Albrecht Durer "Naw, man, I'm clean. Now hurry up, I got other clients. Yes, while Renaissance Florence may have been a good place for the arts and parkour, if Assassin's Creed II is to be believed , at the same time, Italy experienced something more closely akin to a zombie movie during the first major outbreak of syphilis in Yeah, before antibiotics, this particular STD was less "secret shame" and more "literally rots your fucking face off.

Meaning, it was not out of place to see victims shambling around who had lost "hands, feet, eyes, and noses to the disease. As horrifying as the thought of having undead genitalia may seem, the worst part is actually the phrase "within a few months" -- that means that the afflicted somehow lived for months in this condition, the whole time screaming with pain as their flesh "was eaten away, in some cases down to the bone. In short, for a brief period during the time of the great Renaissance masters, it was common to see people, never mind a whole army of Frenchmen, walking around with their faces falling off their exposed skulls until they finally dropped dead.

Why the fuck wasn't this in Assassin's Creed II? Italy's Mount Vesuvius is infamous mainly for erupting so hard on Pompeii's face that the entire Roman city and all its dick sculptures, since it was the sex capital of the empire remained buried in ash for the next millennium and a half. What you may not know is that the gods were actually merciful to Pompeii compared with the horror that went down in Herculaneum, which was a smaller city situated even closer to Vesuvius when it started ejaculating magma everywhere. Erik Moller Pictured, from left to right: Vesuvius, Herculaneum, and Pompeii.

What Pompeii experienced was a classic disaster flick: Herculaneum, on the other hand, experienced a full-blown supernatural horror movie due to them being hit with " superheated pyroclastic flows of molten rock, mud, and gas ," which is a fancy way of saying that a whole bunch of people went like this.

The human skull is loaded with lots of liquids, and if you heat it up super quickly, it reacts much like a hamster in a microwave. We know this because that's precisely what happened at Herculaneum when everyone in the city was hit by a cloud of gas with a temperature of nearly 1, degrees Fahrenheit.

In less than two-tenths of a second, "skin vaporized, It just happened all on its own, just as Mother Nature intended. Here's hoping this doesn't happen to the fine folks in Naples, who stubbornly insist on living in the precise spot where Vesuvius patiently waits to wipe them out again. There are so many horror stories in war that some just get lost in the pile.

That's too bad, because often by discussing things in broad, heroic strokes -- the bombings, the invasions, the cities reduced to rubble -- you lose sight of the more personal horrors that occurred day-to-day. The committee's primary concern was food shortages made worse due to people feeding their pets, so to curtail this potential problem, they sent out a pamphlet called "Advice to Animal Owners" You can see where this is going.

UK National Archives Keep calm and kill your cat. The pamphlet advised the population that if they could not send their pets into the countryside, " it really is kindest to have them destroyed " the wording suggests that it was written by an early Dalek prototype. How did the British population take this order? With protests across the Isles, surely?

Within the course of a week, , family pets were "destroyed. Also, please note that this took place during the summer of -- i.

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The Pax Romana is known for being one of the most peaceful periods in history: The Romans figured, "Meh, the empire is big enough now," and took it easy with all the head-chopping and back-stabbing as much as they could, anyway to focus on more productive things like fine-tuning the laws we still use today.

How else could Rome have held itself together for so long without routine garbage pickup and laws designed to keep people like serial killers off the street? Bibliotheca Augustana And every potential killer on the street went to Rome eventually. All roads led there. Actually, scratch that last part. The first recorded serial killer in history reigned like a mad queen for 15 years during this period: Her name was Locusta, and her career reads like what would happen if Hannibal Lecter was given his own state college.

Locusta's macabre story starts in the mid-first century A. Fortune smiled upon her when Agrippina decided to poison Emperor Claudius , and can you guess who she turned to for help on that one? That's right, Locusta, who subsequently received a pardon for her lethal dose of girl power. Luis Garcia She used the "He looked pretty dead even before I killed him" defense. So, what did Locusta do with her freedom? She got busted one year later in 55 A. Fortunately, the new Emperor Nero needed her for another job, and Locusta was pardoned once more so she could whip up a deadly milkshake for Nero's year-old step brother Britannicus.

After that hit, Locusta was awarded a sweet villa and even pupils to aid her in her arts. That's right, even though she was a known murderer and repeat offender, Locusta was given everything she needed to open her own goddamn school for murder.

However, Locusta's luck ran out when Nero committed suicide, leaving her with few allies and a reputation akin to that of a sorceress. The madwoman was arrested and promptly executed by Emperor Galba in 69 A. The old "fight or flight" reaction of our evolutionary heritage once played a major role in the life of every human.

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Our ancestors lived and died by it. Then someone invented the fascinating game of civilization, and things began to calm down. Development pushed wilderness back from settled lands. War, crime, and other forms of social violence came with civilization and humans started preying on each other, but by and large daily life calmed down.

We began to feel restless, to feel something missing: So we told each other stories through the long, dark nights The rush of adrenaline feels good. Our hearts pound, our breath quickens, and we can imagine ourselves on the edge. Yet we also appreciate the insightful aspects of horror. Sometimes a story intends to shock and disgust, but the best horror intends to rattle our cages and shake us out of our complacency. It makes us think, forces us to confront ideas we might rather ignore, and challenges preconceptions of all kinds.

Horror reminds us that the world is not always as safe as it seems, which exercises our mental muscles and reminds us to keep a little healthy caution close at hand. In a sense similar to the reason a person seeks out the controlled thrill of a roller coaster , readers in the modern era seek out feelings of horror and terror to feel a sense of excitement. However, she adds that horror fiction is one of the few mediums where readers seek out a form of art that forces themselves to confront ideas and images they "might rather ignore One can see the confrontation of ideas readers and characters would "rather ignore" throughout literature, in famous moments such as Hamlet 's musings about the skull of Yorick and its implications of the mortality of humanity and the gruesome end that bodies inevitably come to.

In horror fiction, the confrontation with the gruesome is often a metaphor for the problems facing the current generation of the author. Stephanie Demetrakopoulos illustrates a common interpretation of one of the benchmarks of the canon of horror literature. This scholarly journal article explores sexuality in Dracula , including overtones of sexuality in the typical aggressive male and female sexuality which is either reflective of the chaste woman or the sexually aggressive female vampire.

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Demetrakopoulos suggests Dracula was an outlet for Victorian society, breaking through sexual norms with symbolic group orgies, male desire for sexually aggressive women, denial of motherhood, etc. She highlights ways in which the females defy gender boundaries by embodying masculine traits such as intelligence. It is a now commonly accepted viewpoint that the horror elements of Dracula 's portrayal of vampirism are metaphors for sexuality in a repressed Victorian era.

Judith Halberstam postulates many of these in her essay Technologies of Monstrosity: Halberstram articulates a view of Dracula as manifesting the growing perception of the aristocracy as an evil and outdated notion to be defeated. The depiction of a multinational band of protagonists using the latest technologies such as a telegraph to quickly share, collate, and act upon new information is what leads to the destruction of the Vampire.

This is one of many interpretations of the metaphor of only one central figure of the canon of horror fiction, as over a dozen possible metaphors are referenced in analysis, from the religious to the anti-semitic. In addition to those essays and articles shown above, scholarship on horror fiction is almost as old as horror fiction itself. In , the gothic novelist Ann Radcliffe published an essay distinguishing two elements of horror fiction, "terror" and "horror. Modern scholarship on horror fiction draws upon a range of sources. In their historical studies of the gothic novel, both Devandra Varma [32] and S.

Varnado [33] make reference to the theologian Rudolf Otto , whose concept of the " numinous " was originally used to describe religious experience. Achievements in horror fiction are recognized by numerous awards. The International Horror Guild Award was presented annually to works of horror and dark fantasy from to Other important awards for horror literature are as subcategories included within general awards for fantasy and science fiction in such awards as the Aurealis Award.

Some writers of fiction normally classified as "horror" nevertheless dislike the term, considering it too lurid. They instead use the terms dark fantasy or Gothic fantasy for supernatural horror, [37] or " psychological thriller " for non-supernatural horror. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This article is about a genre of speculative fiction. For the film genre, see supernatural horror film.

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