Efram Sera-Shriar 👻 (@dreframss.bsky.social)
@DrEframSS
Historian of occultism and science, anthropologist, associate professor @koebenhavns_uni, and bass player. Views own.
It is a great pleasure to be able to finally share the cover to my new book **PSYCHIC INVESTIGATORS** coming out in JUne 2022 with @UPittPress. More details here: upittpress.org/books/97808229… #HistSci #Anthro #Occult #HPS #Victorian
Sometimes when I make a book order I wonder what the person preparing the shipment thinks about me...
One year ago today I published this short article for JVC online on the Victorian medium Henry Slade. Digital Clairvoyance: Lessons Learned by Text Mining the “Dr Slade Number” from 1876 You can read it via JVC Online's website👇 jvc.oup.com/2024/01/08/dig…
Aca-Lovecraft-Colleagues. An exciting new collection on adaptations of Lovecraft’s work called “Beyond Lovecraft: A Companion” is being put together by Dr David K. Goodin …I think you might want to be part of it! Details in photos below:
Aca-MonstrousConsumption-Cannibal-Colleagues. Reminder for 2 projects & that I’ll take abstracts up to end Jan 2025. -Monstrous Consumption: The Diets of Monsters and Monstrous Diets in the Popular Imagination - Consuming Identity: Cannibalism and the Beyond Human
2024 was an exciting year with the Player 2 exhibition and the start of the Otherworldly Entertainment project. Even if there was some frustration along the way, the year felt like a successful one. I won't be online later today, so I hope you all have a brilliant start to 2025!
The so-called "tarantulas" in the artwork for Atari's Haunted House (left) are clearly based on the more common black and yellow garden spider (right).
Two years ago this arrived at my door. Happy memories... 🥰
Dear #gothic, #horror, #occult, & #VideoGames folk. We are hosting an amazing 3-day event @UCPH_Research in Aug 2025 & our CFP is now live! Deadline for submission: 31 March 2025. Bursaries are available. "Otherworldly Entertainment," details 👇 engerom.ku.dk/english/resear…
I just listened to Part 1 of Alan Cross' exploration of the band @Weezer for his wonderful podcast: Ongoing History of New Music. It is great, and as a mega fan of the band, I learned quite a few new things about Rivers Cuomo. Part 2 launched today! open.spotify.com/episode/1Bmbzt…
It has finally happened, I finished my stockpile of Yorkshire Tea... pray for me during this difficult time 😔
The 1982 *Alien* by Fox Video Games for the Atari 2600 was basically Pac-Man reskinned with Xenomorphs.
We already have some amazing special issues under development with @INCSA_19thC's forthcoming new journal with Taylor & Francis. If you have a great idea for one, do get in touch with me directly. I'm commissioning! Details: in-csa.com/publications/
Hi #horror & #gothic folk! Do any of you have access to a digital version? Richard Hand, “Proliferating Horrors: Survival Horror and the Resident Evil Franchise” in Horror Film: Creating and Marketing Fear, ed. by S. Hantke, University Press of Mississippi (2004), 117–34
Viktoria looks almost like a magical creature hiding under this wizard-themed duvet
I am always a little disappointed as an historian of occulture when I see a workshop advertised on "dark energy" and it isn't about malevolent spirits...
The opening for *The History of Player 2* at Enigma Museum in Copenhagen was a raging success with a packed house. Everything looked great but the crown jewel is definitely the Doom installation where we connected 4 computers from the mid-90s via LAN for death matches.
I can't wait for the opening of *The History of Player 2* exhibition at Enigma Museum in Copenhagen this evening. The team has been working hard to set everything up, and the gallery looks amazing! The doors will open for the wider public tomorrow.
Tomorrow is the big event, the opening of our exhibition at Enigma Museum in Denmark: "A History of Player 2." As part of the festivities I'll be talking about the history of one of the highest grossing game series of all time, Street Fighter.