Technology is here to stay. Anyone who imagines they retain the basic survival skills of their forebears has never lived through an extended blackout, marked by staring dully at blank screens, dead microwaves, and the puddle of melt dripping out of your refrigerator. To paraphrase Madonna, we’re all material beings living in a material world […]
Who says it takes 50,000 words to scare the pants off you? Many an author packs a powerful, freaky punch in just a few short pages. Maybe it’s because with so few words, each becomes precious. You end up with lines like these, that pack a wallop because they have to: “I was never kinder […]
It’s a longstanding literary irony that the creature in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein ended up being referred to by the name of his creator: Frankenstein is, of course, the mad doctor, not the lumbering result of his attempts to play god. Some of this is due to the fact that Shelley never names Victor Frankenstein’s creature, which […]
With fall finally upon us, there’s no better time to curl up with something slightly spooky and a little romantic. When the weather begins to cool down, you can’t ask for a better book to curl up with than a good gothic novel. Now is the time for the subtly supernatural and the hauntingly ominous […]