Mansion of Gloom: the Unsettling Legacy of Poe’s ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’

Focusing on insect scientists in horror cinema, this lecture explores how films from Them! to The Silence of the Lambs express anxieties about science, nature, and control. Situating these narratives within key moments in entomological history, it examines how monster bugs, deadly swarms, and mad scientists reflect shifting public fears about ecological intervention and scientific authority.

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