Archive - Alexandyr the Terrible

Purpose is a dirty word

From Kafka and Bartleby to Deep, Dark Russia

May 15 •

January 2025

Actually, it isn’t what it is

On Philip K. Dick’s Time Out of Joint (1959) and Bombing the GRE

Jan 5 •

November 2024

Calls of the void

Why Clark Ashton Smith and Algernon Blackwood would make poor camping buddies

Nov 8, 2024 •

October 2024

Can a screen adaptation be too good? Yes, he sighs.

On 'Ripley,' Patricia Highsmith, Disney, and how to properly scare Ichabod Crane

Oct 14, 2024 •

August 2024

Beware the confident stranger

First-class claptrap from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Aug 17, 2024 •

June 2024

Blue pill, or red? It’s both.

On doubles, Joseph Conrad, not-so ‘Strangers on a Train,’ and ‘The Matrix’

Jun 24, 2024 •

May 2024

‘Everything we look at but do not see’

Elusive meaning, a puppeteer, and Maupassant’s ‘The Horla’

May 19, 2024 •

April 2024

Making sense is not a cure

Or ... Eugène Ionesco, David Byrne, and Terry Gilliam walk into a bar

Apr 12, 2024 •

March 2024

Viking farmers vs. an undead seal vs. my pagan shortcomings

Or “explanation is where the weird goes to die”

Mar 14, 2024 •

February 2024

Death and taxes and ... why did it have to be snakes

Garnett Radcliffe's 'Pit of Screams' (1938) turns clerking into a death match

Feb 18, 2024 •

January 2024

A screwdriver in seek of a stranger

My haunted house is nothing like D.K. Broster's

Jan 31, 2024 •

December 2023

Glossary writers need to tune in to the Weird

On lacking the words to illuminate William Sloane's "To Walk the Night" (1937)

Dec 17, 2023 •

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