Today on Project Gutenberg #24

Today on Project Gutenberg we have... Kashmir by Sir Francis Edward Younghusband, illustrated by Major E. Molyneux This is an unusual one. We have a non-fiction book today, an entry into the time-honored genre of travel literature. The subject, in case you couldn't tell from the title, is the region of Kashmir. Where and what …

Horror Is Universal: “Son of Frankenstein” (1939)

After our cheerful little trip through the land of German Expressionism, we're back in familiar territory and ready to move forward. Today's film is the first in what we're going to call the second part of Universal Horror's Classic Era, which as you may recall lasts from about 1930 to 1960. Why are there multiple …

Today on Project Gutenberg #23

Today on Project Gutenberg we have... The Film of Fear by Frederic Arnold Kummer About a hundred years ago, just after Sherlock Holmes and just before Hercule Poirot, there was a literary detective called Richard Duvall. You probably haven't heard of him. I certainly hadn't. The author, Frederic Arnold Kummer, wrote a few different stories …