Easily Distracted
Notes on the genre literature of 1760-2020
Monday, June 19, 2017
Moonlight on the fen: The Barn On the Marsh by Charles G.D. Roberts
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In a Facebook post last week the author Mark Fuller Dillon mentioned the Charles G.D. Roberts story "The Barn On the Marsh." It ...
Wednesday, June 14, 2017
Never say never: I read a Carnacki story by John Linwood Grant
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In his blog post Carnacki: The Second Great Detective author John Linwood Grant defines the occult detective story's characteristics: ...
The ache of a rotten tooth: The Last Illusion by Clive Barker
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"The Last Illusion" by Clive Barker From: Clive Barker's Books of Blood, Volume VI (1985). Swanns last illusion ...
Monday, June 12, 2017
Talking ourselves to death: Pontypool
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Pontypool (2008) The first hour of Pontypool is amazing. Superb. Textbook ideal level of excitement, confusion, menace, and indirection...
Sunday, June 11, 2017
Marvel's Doctor Strange
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I'm not partial to movies where "magic is real" and people learn the secrets of "mind over matter." Other than the ...
The enemy within: The Spear by James Herbert (1978)
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.... He was aware that the screaming had reached fever pitch, and the air was being violently disturbed by the frenzied, unseen things. He w...
Friday, June 9, 2017
Click, Click. Clickety-click
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Night of the Crabs by Guy N. Smith (1976). A reader does not live by M.R. James and E.F. Benson alone. Not every story has to be about mirt...
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