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TV UPDATE
History Channel Special Shows Off My Work
The History Channel's recent special, Ancient Aliens, showed my article " Charioteer of the Gods" to illustrate skeptical approaches to Erich von Daniken's ancient astronaut theory. The showed my article against a black
background and ran scare quotes from other skeptics over it while playing ominous music as Peter Coyote intoned dark narration
about skeptics' attacks. Yes, that's right, I got attacked on TV. And no, nobody from Prometheus Entertainment, the company
that produced the show, contacted me for my side of the story.
TOP
STORY
NOW AVAILABLE:
A Hideous Bit of Morbidity
"...an exciting ride across the history of dark literature..."
- Mario Guslandi, SFSite.com (featured review)
My new book, A Hideous Bit of Morbidity: An Anthology of Horror Criticism from the Enlightenment to World War
I, is now available for purchase! The book explores the close and complex relationship between the horror genre
and developments in science and philosophy from the Enlightenment to today. Order your copy now!
WHAT'S NEW
Read my latest article, "Belief in Ancient Nuclear War Reveals
Modern Fears," from the March edition of The Canadian. READ THE ARTICLE HERE.
Also, check out the latest articles featuring me on my media page. New articles just added!
> Read
my other published articles here.
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Read articles about me and featuring me here.
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NOTE: ALL MESSAGES BECOME THE PROPERTY OF JASON COLAVITO
AND MAY BE QUOTED OR PRINTED IN FULL UNLESS OTHERWISE SPECIFIED
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Praise
for Lost Civilizations Uncovered:
"Editors'
pick: cleverly named...well reported and smartly written..."
IMPORTANT NOTICE
Knowing
Fear featured at academic conference panel on horror in the ancient world
My book on the history of the horror genre , Knowing Fear: Science, Knowledge, and
the Development of the Horror Genre (McFarland, 2008), was cited and discussed at an academic conference this April
in Minneapolis, Minn.
At the annual conference of the Classical Association of the Middle West and
South, Xavier University professor Edmund P. Cueva presented a panel discussion on "the nature of horror in classic antiquity"
and cited Knowing Fear as a major work on horror theory that will help to drive discussion on horror stories in antiquity.
"Interestingly for this panel, [Colavito]
notes that the ancient world did not develop the horror tale in the modern sense," Cueva wrote in a paper prepared for the
conference. "He is careful to point out that the fear felt in the horror genre is not the fear one has in a real-life fright,
rather it is an 'artistic emotion.'"
Cueva presented his paper, "The Nature of Horror
and Modern Theorists," April 4, 2009, at the Marriott City Center in Minneapolis. The abstract can be read here. Information about the conference can be found here.
THIS
SITE'S MISSION
Over the past half-century many authors have claimed extraterrestrial intervention in humanity's
past. Others claim that an Atlantis-like civilization came and went before recorded history. In these pages I will take
a look at theories and ideas surrounding this phenomenon with an eye to skepticism and a mind for truth. I hope to show
that the ancient past was a lively place, but one that no one has been able to prove originated with aliens.
THE BOOKSHELF
Books by Jason Colavito
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