Death With Interruptions
No Ulysses update today. Bookman was home with me all weekend, something that, given his variable schedule, doesn’t happen very …
Category Archives: Challenges
Helmet of Horror
The Helmet of Horror by Victor Pelevin isn’t especially horrific in the usual RIP kind of way as in giant …
The Castle of Otranto
The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole was originally published in 1764 and is commonly considered to be the first …
Carmilla
Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu was first published in 1872. Carmilla is a vampire story and predates Stoker’s Dracula by …
Time for RIP VI!
Today is the first day of September and even though it is currently 92F (33C) and very humid out, fall …
TBR Challenge Wrap-up
As nearly everyone seems to be getting busy with Christmas, I thought today might be a good day to look …
The Turn of the Screw
I first read Turn of the Screw by Henry James a long time ago. I must have been in my …
The Lady’s Maid’s Bell
The Lady’s Maid’s Bell by Edith Wharton is one of those ghost stories that works by being so ambiguous the …
Dracula was a Reader
Sorry if you’re tired of Dracula, but there is a passage I wanted to share that didn’t really fit into …
Dracula and Sex
Yesterday I tried to provide a little context for Dracula. Today let’s talk about sex. There are only five female …
