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Winter is Coming: New Game of Thrones Season 2 Photos

There’s a chill in the air, coming from the general direction of Westeros, as we approach the April 1st premiere of HBO’s second season of Game of Thrones.  Today, brand new images released by HBO reveal several new characters to the [...]

Entertainment, Entertainment News

Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe (1616)

The Tragicall History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, commonly referred to simply as Doctor Faustus, is a play by Christopher Marlowe, based on the Faust story, in which a man sells his soul to the devil for power and knowledge. Doctor [...]

Classic Literature Archive, Plays

Supernatural Horror in Literature by H. P. Lovecraft (1927)

“Supernatural Horror in Literature” is a long essay by the celebrated horror writer H. P. Lovecraft surveying the field of horror fiction. It was written between November 1925 and May 1927 and revised in 1933-1934. It was first published in 1927 in the one-shot [...]

Classic Literature Archive, Essays

“Honest Abe” Wields a Vampire-Hunting Axe

Fans of Seth Grahame-Smith’s novel Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (who have been waiting to see images of the 16th President of the United States in all his vampire hunting glory) can rejoice.  This week, Twentieth Century Fox, in cooperation with Entertainment Weekly, [...]

Entertainment, Entertainment News

Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson (1886)

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a novella written by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson and first published in 1886. It is about a London lawyer who investigates strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr Henry [...]

Classic Literature Archive, Novellas and Short Stories

Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu (1872)

“Carmilla” is a Gothic novella by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. First published in 1872, it tells the story of a young woman’s susceptibility to the attentions of a female vampire named Carmilla. “Carmilla” predates Bram Stoker’s Dracula by twenty five [...]

Classic Literature Archive, Novellas and Short Stories

Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark (2010)

by Raven Kross: When I first saw the commercials for this movie, I had high expectations for it. At a first glance, it doesn’t seem like your typical monsters-under-the-bed movie. It had a creepy house, mysterious voices, disappearing children, and lots [...]

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The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe (1842)

The “Red Death” had long devastated the country. No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous. Blood was its Avator and its seal — the redness and the horror of blood. There were sharp pains, and sudden dizziness, and then [...]

Classic Literature Archive, Novellas and Short Stories

The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe (1845)

ONCE upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my [...]

Classic Literature Archive, Poetry