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Showing posts with label daphne du maurier. Show all posts
28 Dec 2023

What Was I Thinking? (28 December)

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  Torpedo the Ark: images from posts published on  28 December (2013-2021)   Sometimes, it's interesting to look back and see what one w...
10 Oct 2023

It's Creepy and It's Kooky, Mysterious and Spooky: Notes on Mark Fisher's The Weird and the Eerie (Part 2)

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Mark Fisher (1968-2017) author of  The Weird and the Eerie (2016)     I.  Fisher's opening discussion of the eerie is perhaps my favo...
2 Sept 2021

Help! I'm Turning into a Tapeworm (Don't Tell Me Not to Worry)

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Teresa Zgoda: Taenia solium (tapeworm) everted scolex Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition (2017)     I.    The above image by T...
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27 Nov 2020

Never Trust a Dwarf Dressed in Red

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Adelina Poerio as the anonymous dwarf in Don't Look Now (1973)  and Jean-Yves Tual as Lucien in Le nain rouge (1998)     I.    One of ...
8 Jul 2020

A Brief Note on The Scapegoat (1957) by Daphne du Maurier

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Virago (2004) I'm sorry to say, but Daphne du Maurier's eleventh novel, The Scapegoat (1957), isn't one I'll ...
17 Jun 2020

Never Give a Doppelgänger the Keys to Your Car ...

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Roger Moore in The Man Who Haunted Himself (1970) There is always a part of ourselves by which we are haunted;  an avenging appari...
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18 May 2020

Notes on My Cousin Rachel (1951)

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Rachel Weisz as Rachel Ashley My Cousin Rachel (2017) I. Cousin Rachel: what is she; lamb, witch, or vixen? Possibly all these...
6 May 2020

Francis Davey: the Vicar of Altarnun

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James Duke as Francis Davey  (Salisbury Playhouse 2004) I. Albinism or, as it is sometimes known, achromia , is a rare congenit...
1 May 2020

Make Way For Pengallan!

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What are you all waiting for? A spectacle? You shall have it!  And tell your children how the great age ended. Make way for Pengallan!...
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