Horror Is Universal: “The Mummy’s Curse” (1944)

We finally did it, folks. We've reached the end. We're free. Free from the curse of Kharis and his lame-ass movies. Of course, Kharis couldn't let us go without one last ordeal to suffer through. After the batshit nonsense of The Mummy's Ghost, I was a little optimistic about this film. I still didn't think …

Today on Project Gutenberg #58

Today on Project Gutenberg, we have... The Search After Happiness by Charlotte Brontë Oh, Charlotte. Charlotte, Charlotte, Charlotte. What am I to do with you. I have had a long and complicated relationship with the most famous Brontë sister. Or to be more accurate, with her work. Maybe someday I will write a long and …

Short Story: “Portrait of an Amsterdam Lady”

I wrote this story about a year ago, based off an Internet prompt that I don't remember now. I submitted it for publication to a few places, but nothing happened, so I sat on it for a while and forgot about it. Until a few days ago when I stumbled across it again. It's hardly …

Today on Project Gutenberg #57

Today on Project Gutenberg, we have... The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton Another classic author here! Edith Wharton was a prolific American writer with a career spanning decades, from the 1880s and 1890s up to the 1930s. Her stories tended to deal with the complex dynamics of upper-class society during the Gilded Age, …

Today on Project Gutenberg #56

Today on Project Gutenberg we have... The Bitter Cry of Outcast London by Andrew Mearns and William C. Preston "Being poor sucks" has always been a popular topic of nonfiction, and no one writes that genre quite like the Victorians. Today's example comes to us from 1883, and though it's not as elaborate as other …