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 …

Today on Project Gutenberg #55

Today on Project Gutenberg, we have... The Seagull by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov Yes, this is the Chekhov. The one with the gun. Anton Chekhov was a Russian playwright and short story writer who, despite a relatively short life and literary career, still has a reputation as one of the all-time great dramatists and a pioneer …

Today on Project Gutenberg #54

Another day, another weird rabbit hole. Today on Project Gutenberg, we have... Life in a Tank by Richard Haigh Pop quiz! When was the modern tank introduced into warfare? Believe it or not, we can trace it down to an exact date. Like many things which are good at killing people, the modern military tank …

Today on Project Gutenberg #53

Today on Project Gutenberg, we have... Gladiator by Philip Wylie I'm cheating a little bit this time around. I selected this title ahead of time rather than stumbling across it at random. Why? Because I've read most of it before, and because it fits the themes that have been on my brain recently. That's right, …

Film Review: “The Suicide Squad” (2021)

NOTE: This article will contain spoilers for the film. I won't ruin anything important for you, but if you want to go in completely blind, don't read this just yet. I would not consider myself a major fan of comic book media. I was for a while, but my interest in most of that got …

Film Review: “The Green Knight” (2021)

You might have noticed that it's been a while since I reviewed anything that came out...oh, in the last half century or so. I haven't really had the interest or the means to do so, between working on Horror Is Universal and working on my fiction projects. Oh, and that pandemic that shut down all …

Horror Is Universal: “House of Frankenstein” (1944)

If Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man was the Batman v Superman of this cinematic universe, then House of Frankenstein is its Justice League or The Avengers. Assuming, of course, that those movies had the members of the crossover turn up one at a time, never interact and made sure to kill off each character before …