When Dracula Author Bram Stoker Wrote a Gushing Fan Letter to Walt Whitman (1870)
Source: Open Culture
Every artist starts out as a fan, and in general we see the marks of early fandom on their mature work. The best, after all—as figures from...
Hecuba, Euripides | Dramatized reading
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMNfNt0oSKw&feature=em-lbcastemail
The Story of Carmilla: Literature’s First Vampire Was Actually a Woman
Source: Ancient Origins
The novel Dracula, written by Bram Stoker and published in 1897, became a cult classic of horror literature throughout the world. It brought vampire legends to a wider...
Believing in Literature
Source: London Review of Books AUGUST 3, 2020
THE RELATION BETWEEN belief and making is a troubled one. Anybody who has ever banged their fists on the table in an...
I Want Only to Be a Worn-Down Stone
I want only to be a worn-down stone
on the ruins of time,
a dolmen
raised above this forsaken graveyard’s
terrain.
( Alain Mabanckou )
Source: The Paris Review Issue no. 229 (Summer 2019)
Greek Mythology 3500 BC to AD 2014 | University of Birminghan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCaDjvcaWpo&t=2804s
Bats: Out of Hell?
It took an Irish Gothic novelist to tie up centuries of demonic mythology surrounding this leathery, nocturnal mammal.
Source: History Today Volume 70 Issue 10 October 2020
By Alexander Lee
What would vampires...
Albert Einstein Explains Why We Need to Read the Classics
Source: Open Culture | May 28th, 2020
Two pieces of reading advice I’ve carried throughout my life came from two early favorite writers, Herman Melville and C.S. Lewis. In one of...
Der Tod | Rainer Maria Rilke
Da steht der Tod, ein bläulicher Absud
in einer Tasse ohne Untersatz.
Ein wunderlicher Platz für eine Tasse:
steht auf dem Rücken einer Hand. Ganz gut
erkennt man noch an dem glasierten Schwung
den...
Eros at Play — Why the ancient erotic poems of Sappho and Wallada bint...
Source: Aeon
A woman rests in a field surrounded by apple trees. Savouring the sounds and smells of the shaded grove, she muses on the ‘sacred recess’ of her idyllic surroundings,...