One of Wells’s most famous non-science fiction stories, The Red Room, though ostensibly a ghost story, may instead be an allegorical tale about the dawn of the 20th Century. If anything, that makes it even scarier…
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M. R. James: Rats
Saturday, June 23rd, 2012One of my favorite ghost stories, by one of my favorite ghost story writers. As usual, James leaves a lot to the imagination when he describes the Thing that haunts this story; but his sketchy description worked so well on my imagination that for years I had to brace myself before re-reading it.
I apologize for the worst attempt at a Suffolk accent you’re ever likely to hear. Sorry.
Something in my Head
Saturday, April 28th, 2012A news story in April 2012 got me thinking about this warped piece of sci-fi from 1968.
Sure, the Japanese version makes some claims to subtext, which might explain why everybody in the movie is an idiot; but give me the American version any day, with its funky theme music…
Old Podcast #1: Shame of the B-Masters
Wednesday, March 28th, 2012In which your humble Braineater admits to never having watched one of the classics of the horror genre all the way through.
Let’s start with a canon
Friday, March 23rd, 2012What could be more fun than getting together with a group of friends and singing canons? Not much. This is a little three-voice canon I came up with nearly thirty years ago… I’ve presented it in g-minor to fit gratefully within a range of voices, but I’m also including an audio clip of a version in c-minor for organ (with a cheating tièrce de picardie in a fourth voice at the end… y’know: just because). It wouldn’t pass counterpoint class, but it’s still enjoyable.
