This episode, we take a look at the slasher and torture genres, looking at how they developed and why they captured our interest the way they did.

Take a look into the origin, themes, tropes, and forms of the pop culture zombie!

This is the introductory episode of One Spooked Professor. It outlines many of the most common forms that horror takes and how they often fit in to the traditional four conflicts of storytelling: Man vs Man, Man vs Nature, Man vs Self, and Man vs Society. All this in order to understand how human fear has shaped horror storytelling and where this podcast aims to go.