Nostalgia Time! While I’m wrapping up a couple of books, let’s take a detour to an interesting chapter in Arthurian fiction, the 1998 miniseries Merlin. I saw this when it originally aired on NBC all those years ago, and it was my introduction to both Helena Bonham Carter and Lena Headey. For about a five […]
Mythologies can be so deeply ingrained in our cultural zeitgeist that it’s hard to separate out the original from the adaptations. King Arthur is just one of those legends that I’ve always known and didn’t think too hard about the origin. Every year there’s a new piece of media that adds on to the story. […]
I’m probably not the only film buff out there waiting patiently for The Green Knight to arrive in cinemas. It was one of my most anticipated movies of last year. Of course, due to covid, The Green Knight was pushed back over a year and finally will grace us with its presence at the end […]
Is Charlie in the car with a serial killer? In a desperate need to return home to Ohio from her New Jersey college Charlie decides to use the ride share board and meets Josh, a campus employee. In a haze of grief Charlie might’ve accepted a ride with the Campus Killer. I was quickly on […]
All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth Is Change. God Is Change. I put off reading Parable of the Sower because dystopian is a genre that I have a hard time reading. I’m already fighting off my pessimism about the future, I don’t need a constant […]
“Just what does science fiction have to do with black people?” Throughout Ytasha Womack’s Afrofuturism the author recounts stories from different Black creators, and one from Octavia Butler stuck with me early on. Author Butler said it never failed that when she attended different conferences that at least one person would ask the above question, […]
In my Hill House review I stated that I rarely reread books and of course, since I put that out into the universe, the fates aligned, and I’m now rereading my second book this month. I was in a pinch and Slade House fits the parameters I was shooting for with this month’s theme. Every […]
For this month I was trying to find haunted house reads from the 20th century that had the gothic vibes. The Haunting of Hill House was the standard I was looking for, and I find it interesting that I ended up reading Hell House, a book heavily influenced by Hill House. The line between homage […]
Due to all the books I want to read I rarely get to reread books. Last year I revisited The Turn of the Screw and that’s about it these past few years. With the new show that came out a couple years back, The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson has been on my […]
When widow Halla comes into a major inheritance after the passing of her uncle-in-law, her other in-laws aren’t too thrilled about being skipped over. They end up locking Halla in her room until she agrees to marry her brother-in-law. Halla is about to take a drastic measure when she draws an old sword and a […]
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