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Purpose is a dirty word
From Kafka and Bartleby to Deep, Dark Russia
May 15
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Alexandyr Kent
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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
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November 2024
Calls of the void
Why Clark Ashton Smith and Algernon Blackwood would make poor camping buddies
Nov 8, 2024
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Alexandyr Kent
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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
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Alexandyr Kent
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Can a screen adaptation be too good? Yes, he sighs.
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August 2024
Beware the confident stranger
First-class claptrap from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Aug 17, 2024
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Alexandyr Kent
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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
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Alexandyr Kent
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May 2024
‘Everything we look at but do not see’
Elusive meaning, a puppeteer, and Maupassant’s ‘The Horla’
May 19, 2024
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Alexandyr Kent
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April 2024
Making sense is not a cure
Or ... Eugène Ionesco, David Byrne, and Terry Gilliam walk into a bar
Apr 12, 2024
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Alexandyr Kent
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March 2024
Viking farmers vs. an undead seal vs. my pagan shortcomings
Or “explanation is where the weird goes to die”
Mar 14, 2024
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Alexandyr Kent
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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
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Alexandyr Kent
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January 2024
A screwdriver in seek of a stranger
My haunted house is nothing like D.K. Broster's
Jan 31, 2024
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Alexandyr Kent
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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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Alexandyr Kent
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