Issue: The Blood on Satan’s Claw at 50

“Save me, Angel”: The Division of Women in The Blood on Satan’s Claw

Jessica Parant, Spinsters of Horror  The Blood on Satan’s Claw (1971) offers examples of the various roles allotted to women by a highly religious and patriarchal society. The women are rarely kind to one another and even seek to harm each other. In the characters of Mistress Ellen (Charlotte Mitchell), Mistress Isobel Banham (Avice Landone), […]

Refractions of Mary Bell in The Blood on Satan’s Claw: Angel, Cathy, and Margaret

David Annwn Jones In the years following 1968, the British public, including journalists, politicians and psychologists, tried to come to terms with a seismic national trauma by searching for answers about what had led Mary Bell, an eleven-year-old girl, to murder two small boys. Such crimes and the trial that followed appeared to reveal the […]