In 1583 in Vienna, a 16-year-old girl suffered stomach cramps. A team of Jesuits exorcized her for eight weeks. The priests announced that they had expelled 12,

Holy Horrors of Thy Heart is brought to you by personal thoughts and emotions collaborating into my own personal literature of poems and events and things I hav

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Dr. Schneider draws upon a detailed and telling analysis of eleven well-known horror stories: Dracula, Frankenstein, The Phantom of the Opera, The Fall of the H