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Finding the Sacred in Infrastructure
Several years ago, when I was living in Houston, I had a seemingly inconsequential thought that grew and shaped itself until it transformed the way I see the world. Houston can do that to you. Certain times of the year, large flocks of large, black birds will congregate on the power lines. It’s clearly multiple […]
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The Night Side of Nature: Catherine Crowe and the Origins of the Supernatural
In 1848, an English woman published a work that every ghost story, every horror movie, every Creepypasta that has come since owes a debt to. She was Catherine Crowe, and the book was The Night Side of Nature. There had been other collections of ghost stories that had come before, but Crowe’s approach was radically […]
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Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins is a very bad movie, but not because of what you’re thinking
The one piece of movie trivia that Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins is probably most remembered for now is that it didn’t actually begin anything. The 1986 movie, intended to spin into a series based off of Warren Murphy and Richard Sapir’s series of men’s adventure Destroyer series of pulp novels underperformed significantly enough at […]
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The Strange Politics of Blakes 7
Blakes 7 is not an easy show to make any kind of consistent sense of. This is primarily because there is very little in the show that’s consistent. Running for for series on the BBC from 1978 to 1981, this space opera followed a group of escaped criminals led (at first) by the eponymous Blake, […]
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The Constant Nymph
Margaret Kennedy’s 1924 novel The Constant Nymph was famous in its time, but sat mostly forgotten and had fallen out of print when it was republished by The Dial Press as part of their Virago line in 1984. Virago was dedicated to reviving forgotten novels by women authors, some have said regardless of the actual […]