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Húsið (1983) or The House, directed by Egill Eðvarðsson, was the first icelandic fea-ture-length horror film. it follows the tradition of the haunted house genre which was popular between the Seventies and Eighties. The haunted house is a graveyard of gothic secrets but also the place where buried secrets come alive. The haunted house is often a traumatic location or a manifestation of the trauma haunting its inhabitants' minds. Thus, the haunted house horror is usually first and foremost dealing with the horror within the brain of the inhabitants. This article explores how the haunted house in Húsið manifests the protagonist's trauma in terms of recent studies by the psychiatrists Bessel van der Kolk and Onno van der Hart.

The aim of this article is to discuss the book Dísusaga by Vigdís Grímsdóttir. In the story, which has been categorized as a fictional auto­biography, Vigdís writes about a rape she experienced as a child, focusing on the crime ́s effect. She talks about her decision to keep silent about the crime, which leads to – as described in Dísusaga– her being split into two personas, Dísa and Gríms. This article focuses on the communication between the two characters, in particular their power struggle. The analysis that is put forth is based on methods from theories about trauma, dialogical self and conceptual metaphors. In this article different attitudes toward sexual vio­lence in different times is also addressed by looking at the reception of other works by Vigdís, which have been connected to her persona.