Seven More Horror Stories Masquerading in Other Genres
We often identify genre simply by its conventions and tropes, and, when October rolls round and we want scary stories, we look for vampires and haunted houses and psycho killers and such. And while...
View ArticleA List of Irish Heroes from Joyce’s Ulysses
One of my favorite passages in Ulysses (it’s from the “Cyclops” chapter, episode 12). Hilarious– He wore a long unsleeved garment of recently flayed oxhide reaching to the knees in a loose kilt and...
View Article“How few of the tales we listen to can lay any claim to originality!”
How many brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts, and cousins of all degrees a little story has! And how few of the tales we listen to can lay any claim to originality! There is scarcely a story which I hear...
View ArticleA List of Irish Heroes from James Joyce’s Ulysses
One of my favorite passages in Ulysses (it’s from the “Cyclops” chapter, episode 12)— He wore a long unsleeved garment of recently flayed oxhide reaching to the knees in a loose kilt and this was bound...
View Article“The Plot,” a very short story by Jorge Luis Borges
“The Plot” by Jorge Luis Borges English translation by Andrew Hurley To make his horror perfect, Caesar, hemmed about at the foot of a statue by his friends’ impatient knives, discovers among the faces...
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