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The House at 525, South Winchester Blvd. I. If I were a rich man ... I'd build a big tall house with rooms by the do...

Franz Gareis: portrait of Novalis (1799) The 18th-century German poet and mystic known as Novalis was fond of the phrase: Philosop...

When did fashion stop being dangerous and youth culture cease being sexy, stylish and subversive? That is to say, when was the last t...

New York City rat (photo by Christopher Sadowski)  and Javier Badem as Raoul Silva in Skyfall (2012) There's a lovely scene i...

incipit parodia: je m’ens fous I. Flicking through the pages of Paul Gorman's magnificent new biography of Malcolm McLaren, I...

D. H. Lawrence: self-portrait (June 1929)   It was Nietzsche, of course, who first put forward the idea that artists and philosop...

Gloria Holden as as Countess Marya Zaleska in Dracula's Daughter (1936) Ingrid Pitt as Mircalla Karnstein (aka Carmilla) in The ...

Illustration by David Henry Friston  for Le Fanu's Carmilla (1872) I.  19th-century Irish writer Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu ...

William Blake: Satan in his Original Glory (c. 1805) Ink and watercolour on paper (429 x 339 mm) tate.org.uk "Remember I...

Honor Blackman (1925-2020) as Pussy Galore in Goldfinger (1964) I have to admit that I'm more of a Mrs Peel and Mary Good...