BOOK REVIEW The Word on Fire Vatican II Collection: Constitutions Forward by Bishop Robert Barron, with commentary by postconciliar popes. I must say this is one of the most depressing books I have ever read. First a few words about…
The Wine-Dark Sea is the third collection of Robert Aikman stories I’ve reviewed here recently, and the weakest by far. The best of Aikman’s “strange stories,” as he called them, begin with a completely ordinary situation, and fairly quickly ramp…
I should have known this volume of Ambrose Bierce’s ghost and horror stories would be a clunker when E. F. Bleiler, in his introduction, almost apologized for the up-and-down quality of the stories — as well as for Bierce’s famously…
Today I was listening to a recent Bishop Barron Word on Fire podcast. He was talking about St. Thomas Aquinas, one of his favorite topics. He was explaining Thomas’s argument that God created everything out of love; that creation was…
Dark Entries is another collection of previously published “strange stories” by Robert Aickman (1914-1981), first published in 2014. The contents: The School Friend. The old friendship of two women is severely tested when one of them sinks into a bizarre…