This week our friends at the Projection Booth watch Georges Franju’s Eyes Without A Face, “an atmospheric ‘anguish story’ about a young woman who’s lost her face and the overbearing father who works to give her a new one.”
SF Gate has a little about the history of the art on firecrackers and a whole lot of pictures of vintage firecracker labels. Click through to see them! (Thanks, Stephanie!)
io9 has Charlie Jane Anders’ list of amazing costumes from Star Trek: The Next Generation’s first three seasons.
At the New York Times, Joseph Loconte discusses “How J. R. R. Tolkien found Mordor on the Western Front.”
It’s the last day at The Toast and we’re going to miss them. Make sure to read all their things! (And if this is your first visit to The Toast, don’t worry, they’re keeping up all their pieces and all their comments. The comments are worth your while).
Open Culture has issues of Weird Tales for your reading pleasure! “Debuting in 1923, Weird Tales, writes The Pulp Magazines Project, provided “a venue for fiction, poetry and non-fiction on topics ranging from ghost stories to alien invasions to the occult.” The magazine introduced its readers to past masters […]
Find t-shirts, mugs, totes and more at our new Guttermart location at Teepublic!
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