Monthly Archives: March 2011

Suvudu: Could a Robot Apocalypse Really Happen?

March 11th, 2011 | Posted in apocalypticism, robotics, science fiction

A piece from an interesting website I found today was appealing. The website is Suvudu, which addresses a variety of topics of interest to TheoFantastique. In this case, Matt Staggs asks, “Could a Robot Apocalypse Really Happen?” In order to answer this he interviews P. W. Singer, author of Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution […]

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Can Zombies Be Spiritual?

March 10th, 2011 | Posted in horror, spirituality, theology, zombie

Today I ran across a book at Barnes & Noble that caused me to connect a few dots and pose a question to myself which I’d like to share with my readers. Please follow along as I draw the dots and put them together. As I looked at the various tables of books in the […]

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Martin and Monster Hunting: Can We Return to the Familiarity of the Old World?

March 6th, 2011 | Posted in monster hunter, vampire

I am working my way through Gregory A. Waller’s book The Living and the Undead: Slaying Vampires, Exterminating Zombies (University of Illinois Press, 2010), and came across an interesting quote in relation to the George Romero “vampire” film Martin from 1977. This stylistically self-conscious contemporary story of an American teenage murderer, who may actually be […]

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Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies: Lovecraft and Occultism

March 4th, 2011 | Posted in H. P. Lovecraft, horror, Western esotericism

The latest issue of the online Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies is available, #9 (February 2011). One of the worthwhile essays includes a piece that considers the impact of one of the most significant horror writers on Western esotericism, in an article titled “The Influence of H.P. Lovecraft on Occultism,” by K. R. […]

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Program Premier: National Geographic’s Beast Hunter

March 3rd, 2011 | Posted in cryptozoology, paranormal

Surveys indicate that two-thirds of Americans have experienced or believe in various paranormal phenomena. This is evident in the fact that not only do channels like SyFy and the History Channel include documentaries or pseudo-documentaries on the paranormal, but now so does the National Geographic Channel. This will be the case with a new program […]

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Jeffrey Kripal – Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred

March 2nd, 2011 | Posted in comics, Jeffrey Kripal, paranormal, UFOs, Western esotericism

In my research on the paranormal I was fortunate to come across the work of Jeffrey J. Kripal. Kripal is the J. Newton Rayzor Professor in Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice University. He is the author of a number of books, which are mentioned below, including Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the […]

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