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  'Democracy is as close to a precise negation of civilization  as anything could be, short of instantaneous social collapse into  murde...

I.    The American author and feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) is perhaps best remembered today for a (semi-autobiographical) s...

Messrs. Lovecraft and Burns   I.   My love is like a red, red rose ...    For many people - indeed, we can almost certainly say most peop...

Front cover image from Mark Fisher's  The Weird and the Eerie (Repeater Books, 2016)     I.    Let me confess from the outset that one ...

Isabella Rossellini as Lisle von Rhoman in the 1992 dark  comic fantasy Death Becomes Her , dir. Robert Zemeckis Sometimes, as...

H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937)   Photo c.1934 from the Archives of  Brown University / Associated Press There are several good rea...