Grey Goose Chronicles

AI was not the first image crisis: the X-ray panic of the 1890s

How X-rays brought medicine, magic and moral alarm into the 20th century

Feb 14 • Stone Age Herbalist

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Wanna Know How I Got These Scars?

The demonic slasher smile in history, horror and the age of AI

Feb 3 • Stone Age Herbalist

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January 2026

BONUS: How The Victorians Eroticised Death, From Ophelia To Salome

Sexual seances, vampires, mad doctors, the Ripper, morbid beauty, death photography, TB chic and the Ophelian aspiration

Jan 12 • Stone Age Herbalist

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December 2025

Skin: Two Millennia Of Surface Horror.

A unified theory of flaying, naturalism, prosthetics, shapeshifting, skin-magic, sainthood, face-lifts and deepfakes

Dec 18, 2025 • Stone Age Herbalist

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How The West Invented Horror: Irrationality, the Uncanny and the Unstable Face

The Gothic-Romantic counter-attack, the rise of psychoanalysis and how modernity produced horror through internalisation

Dec 8, 2025 • Stone Age Herbalist

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November 2025

BONUS: Gas masks as the ultimate face of modern horror

How a battlefield defence against chlorine gas became the icon of cold modernity, and what this face represents

Nov 26, 2025 • Stone Age Herbalist

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Strangers At The Door: The Northern Numinous

What modern horror owes to northern Europe - confrontation, chaos, abominations

Nov 22, 2025 • Stone Age Herbalist

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Does This Face Scare You? The Serenity Of Terror

Horror Masks: Origins of the Western Face in the calmness of the Greco-Romans

Nov 15, 2025 • Stone Age Herbalist

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October 2025

Did the Inuit invent Rap?

Aggressive verbal duels in Homer, the pastoral world and the Arctic. Some polar ethnomusicology, throat singing, beatboxing.

Oct 9, 2025 • Stone Age Herbalist

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September 2025

The Bizarre Biology of Birds

A detailed look at one of nature's strangest experiments

Sep 17, 2025 • Stone Age Herbalist

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Field Notes: The Ghost on the Canal

Portraits in contemporary ethnography

Sep 12, 2025 • Stone Age Herbalist

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Field Notes: The Girl In The Rain

Portraits in contemporary ethnography

Sep 10, 2025 • Stone Age Herbalist

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