Literature

Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica Gothic novel, European Romantic pseudomedieval fiction having a prevailing atmosphere of mystery and terror. Its heyday was the 1790s, but it underwent frequent revivals in subsequent centuries. Called Gothic because its imaginative...

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...

Source: Lit Hub, September 22, 2020 By Dan Sheehan On this day in 1835, history’s most macabre literary lovebirds ghouled their way to Baltimore City Hall to file for a marriage...

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...

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Source: Literary Hub May 19, 2020 On May 18th, 1897, one day before Oscar Wilde would finish a two-year prison sentence for “gross indecency” with men, the author took a...

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...

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Death by Rainer Maria Rilke Issue no. 82 (Winter 1981) There stands death, a bluish distillate in a cup without a saucer. Such a strange place to find a cup: standing on the back of...