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Interview with Dr. Frankenstein’s Monster
After a year of searching and many stories, I am able to meet with the man who inspired Halloween in many ways. He is iconic.
Top 10 Hottest Female Poets of the 19th Century
Top 10 Hottest Poets of the 19th Century This list is for fun, and it is meant to be to tongue-in-cheek. We hope to honor the women on this list, and by writing it we hope to draw more attention to their works. Imagine for a moment that these women lived today, in our culture. […]
Poetry as a Study by William Wordsworth
With the young of both sexes, Poetry is, like love, a passion; but, for much the greater part of those who have been proud of its power over their minds, a necessity soon arises of breaking the pleasing bondage; or it relaxes of itself;—the thoughts being occupied in domestic cares, or the time engrossed by […]
Top 10 Horrible B-Horror Movies
Here are out Top 10 Horrible B-Horror Movies. I created this list a long time again, basically for fun, but you have to admire all of these for how truly bad they really are. I guess, for writers, they are a good example of what happens when the writing and everything else is bad. These are […]
Writer’s Birthdays
3/12 Jack Kerouac 3/13 L. Ron Hubbard 3/14 Pam Ayers 3/18 John Updike 3/22 James Patterson 3/26 Tennessee Williams 3/26 Robert Frost 3/27 Maxim Gorky 0
Percy Bysshe Shelly on Beatrice Cenci by Guido Reni
On my arrival at Rome I found that the story of the Cenci was a subject not to be mentioned in Italian society without awakening a deep and breathless interest: and that the feelings of the company never failed to incline to a romantic pity for the wrongs, and a passionate exculpation of the horrible […]
Review Stephen Crane’s War is Kind by Willa Cather
This truly remarkable book is printed on dirty gray blotting paper, on each page of which is a mere dot of print over a large I of vacancy. There are seldom more than ten lines on a page, and it would be better if most of those lines were not there at all. Either Mr. […]
Americanism by H. P. Lovecraft
Laureate It is easy to sentimentalise on the subject of “the American spirit”—what it is, may be, or should be. Exponents of various novel political and social theories are particularly given to this practice, nearly always concluding that “true Americanism” is nothing more or less than a national application of their respective individual doctrines. Slightly […]
Charles Dickens by Andrew Lang
Charles Dickens by Andrew Lang “I cannot read Dickens!” How many people make this confession, with a front of brass, and do not seem to know how poor a figure they cut! George Eliot says that a difference of taste in jokes is a great cause of domestic discomfort. A difference of taste in books, […]