Horror Is Universal: “The Invisible Man’s Revenge” (1944)

I deliberated for a while about how to begin this article. I like to open these articles by posing a question or thesis statement, or I'll just try to write something that I think is funny. But in this case, I'm hard-pressed to do either. I can't think of anything to say about this movie …

Today on Project Gutenberg #50

Today on Project Gutenberg, we have... London's Underworld by Thomas Holmes The Victorian era turned the subject of poverty into a veritable subgenre of literature. The most famous of these books would be Henry Mayhew's London Labour and the London Poor, written throughout the 1840s and formally published in 1851. Today's book, London's Underworld, follows …

Today on Project Gutenberg #49

Today on Project Gutenberg, we have... Motor Matt Makes Good; or, Another Victory for the Motor Boys by Stanley R. Matthews Way back in the olden days of American publishing, we had these things called five-cent or ten-cent weeklies. An example of the dime novel, weeklies hit the peak of their popularity in the late …