The King in Yellow is a collection of nine short stories and several poems written by William W. Chambers in 1895. It was highly regarded by H. P. Lovecraft and is something of a cult classic in the horror genre.…
The Unsettled Dust is a collection of short stories by the great Robert Aickman (1914-1981), an English writer and conservationist highly esteemed by horror genre authors and fans, despite his relatively small output of 48 stories. Aickman called his works…
Horror Stories, an Oxford World Classics anthology, hasn’t a weak link in its 29-story chain. Authors represented in this volume include Honore de Balzac, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Conan Doyle,…
You may wonder why someone who recently wrapped up a 40-post series of fairly lengthy Lenten reflections is now reviewing a book entitled The Lucifer Society. Well, be not confused. The title is not really descriptive of the contents, but…
In Pensées, Blaise Pascal gives us this timeless insight: “All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” We do not like to be alone with our thoughts. We do not like to reflect…