DINING OUT Dining out Is something I can do without. Look at last night And you’ll understand my plight. For cocktails I took a pass Because the wine began at sixteen a glass. The server became quite condescending Seeing how…
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…