One of the scary movies I remember watching as a kid was the Legend of Sleepy Hollow. This was in the 80s, so it was the Disney version, starring Jeff Goldblum. It looks silly now but at the time it fascinated me. Not to mention I lived in New England so it looked kind of…
31 DAYS OF HALLOWEEN – Day 6
I am a great lover of the Victorian Gothic. Crumbling castles, secret inheritances, madness, and ghosts are things I never get tired of reading about. I even wrote my Masters thesis on the use of these genre elements in film. The Southern Gothic is something that I have always felt like I couldn’t quite grasp,…
31 DAYS OF HALLOWEEN – Day 2
I’m sure this won’t be the only post in 31 Days of Halloween to feature that great American writer of the Gothic, Edgar Allan Poe. But did you know he also wrote a The Balloon Hoax of 1844? It was a very complicated and technical story about two men who successfully flew across the Atlantic…
Paris Review – Dreaming in Welsh, Pamela Petro
“Ahead of me the Beacons’ bald, grey-brown flanks were furrowed like elephant skin in ashes-of-roses light. It soon became chilly but the ground held onto its warmth, so that the hills began to smoke with eddying bands of mist. That dusk was unspeakably beautiful and not a little illicit. It seemed, for a millisecond, as…
September is Library Card Sign-up Month!
There may be 50 ways to leave your lover, but there are even more reasons to have a library card. Here are just 60: [iframe] <iframe title=”Way to Use Your Library Card” scrolling=”no” width=”470″ height=”490″ src=”http://promotions.atyourlibrary.org/lcsum-slideshow.html” frameborder=”0″ ></iframe> [/iframe] You can borrow more than just books — movies, magazines, e-books, music, museum and park passes…