Things in 2024!
Hey, it’s some things Carol Borden did in 2024! See them here.
Summer Fun Time Reading ’24
Summertime and the living is far from easy, but hopefully it can be easier with these summer fun time (and winter fun time, for our antipodean friends) reading suggestions including horror, fantasy, thrills, chills, adventure, mystery, crime and wisdom from the most advanced civilization on Earth. There are […]
Sinister Visages: Paintings in Roger Corman’s Edgar Allan Poe Films
I have long wanted an ancestral portrait painted in a German Expressionist style hanging in my entry when I greet weary travelers seeking shelter from a ferocious storm. They would evince surprise at the unnerving resemblance between that sinister visage and my own features or perhaps those of […]
Horror by Gaslight: the Monstrous Fear of Insanity
Horror wears many different skins. Sometimes literally, although in this case I mean that while people have come up with a multitude of wildly different concepts for horror stories, what lurks underneath that shifting surface of zombies, serial killers, parasites, and clowns is our deepest fears. Among the […]
Sara Century, Student of Poe
At Manor Vellum, Sara Century looks at Edgar Allan Poe’s work adapted on film. This week she’s all about giallo Poe. Read more here.
“The Masque of Red Death”
The Library of America’s story of the week is Edgar Allan Poe’s, “The Masque of Red Death.” There is also discussion of the story’s history. “The ‘Red Death’ had long devastated the country. No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous. . . .”
The Cultural Gutter 