Robert Aickman and the Art of the Artifice Short Story with Brontë Schiltz @RomancingTheGothic

Uploaded February 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

We were joined today by Brontë Schiltz to talk about Robert Aickman, short story fiction, and his tale 'The Hospice'

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Robert Aickman and the Art of the Artifice Short Story with Brontë Schiltz

Name: Cannibal Fathers in American Horror Cinema of the 1970s with Lakkaya Palmer @RomancingTheGothic
Uploaded: 2023-07-26T01:29:31-0400
Duration: 8 min 17 s
Description: This talk looks at the depiction of the father in horror films. Lakkaya introduces us to her paradigm of the ferocious father and does a deep dive on the cannibal father in relation to The Hills Have Eyes