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…
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,…