by Joyce Carol Oates
"The Last Feast of the Harlequin". A short story by Thomas Ligotti, a part of the American Gothic Tales collection. What is it that buried itself before it's dead? Alright, I confess. I haven't taken writing reviews very seriously - hell, writing in general is not done to the output that it ne...
So I found this, and that means that I now have a source of fanfiction that I can read that won't come off as being as unintentionally hilarious as a teenage girl writing herself into Harry Potter and making the entire conflict in the wizarding world condensed into the immortal war between the goths...
Bah, what did I manage to read this week? Ambrose Bierce? Good enough for me to warrant a full post! Yep, I actually finished S. an hour or so ago, but I figured that I wouldn't miss out on a routine I'm getting used to. Deal with it. "The Damned Thing" - Ambrose Bierce Fucking a. A p...
I think that I need one day a week to talk, briefly, about the shorts I have been reading during the week. So, in the spirit of that - I will introduce a new segment known as Saturday Short Story Round-Up! Wieland, or The Transformation (Chapter 19) - Charles Brockden Brown [spoiler] ...
I believe this is where I read The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
There is no better volume out there to begin learning about the horror genre. Read this, and you will learn what "horror" means, and what are good examples of the many children of the genre.