Ghost Stories in History with June Gregory

A lot of modern horror tropes can be traced back to ancient stories. In this episode, friend of the Sirens and lover of horror and history, June Gregory, teaches us all some fascinating historical horror facts! Recommendations: Upstate Horror - horror resource Pam Wishbow - Seattle artist Demonic - movie Sirens of Scream are: Melissa Megan- @Lissapunch Jackie DeVore- @Jackietherobot Sierra Houk- @Sierrahouk Guest: June Gregory  Sirens on Twitter- @Sirensofscream Email - [email protected] Banner art by Menton3 Editing by Drew Devore  Break Music - Manic Street Preachers - South Yorkshire Mass Murderer Outro Music - Zombina & The Skeletones - That Doll Just Tried to Kill Me Recommended Reading: Clarens, Carlos. An Illustrated History of Horror and Science Fiction Films. Boston, MA: Da Capo Press, 1997. Curtis, Barry. Dark Places: The Haunted House in Film. London: Reaktion Books, 2009. Felton, D. Haunted Greece and Rome: Ghost Stories from Classical Antiquity. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1990. Goldstein, Diane with Sylvia Ann Grider and Jeannie Banks Thomas. Haunting Experiences: Ghosts in Contemporary Folklore. Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2007. Joynes, Andrew. Medieval Ghost Stories: An Anthology of Miracle, Marvels, and Prodigies. Suffolk, UK :Boydell Press, 2006 (New Edition) Johnston, Sarah Iles. Restless Dead: Encounters between the Living and the Dead in Ancient Greece. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1999. Kovacs, Lee. The Haunted Screen: Ghosts in Literature and Film. Jefferson, NC: McFarland  Company, Inc., Publishers, 2005. Leeder, Murray, ed. Cinematic Ghosts: Haunting and Spectrality From Silent Cinema to the Digital Era. NY: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015. Peeren, Esther and Maria del Pilar Blanco, eds. Popular Ghosts: The Haunted Spaces of Everyday Culture. NY: Bloomsbury Academic, 2010. Svehla, Gary with Susan Svehla, Cinematic Hauntings. Baltimore, MD: Midnight Marquee Press, 2011. Ogden, Daniel. Magic, Witchcraft and Ghosts in the Greek and Roman Worlds: A Sourcebook. NY: Oxford University Press, 2009 (2 nd edition).