Archives for September 2008
Dreadful Thoughts Story Club 8: The Vampyre
Poor Polidori. That’s the title of D. L. MacDonald’s (critical) biography of the sometime author and physician we turn our attentions to on this damp, grey and windy night. And a fitting title it seems to have been when one… continue reading »
Do You See What is Happening?
By way of buildup to next Monday’s (miss it and you’ll die crying) John Polidori Vampyre-fest, I hereby present a post on a strangely neglected topic. Namely, “Mathematics and the Undead”. Like many parents of glamorous (i.e. brown & damp)… continue reading »
Dreadful Thoughts: The Autumnal Rebirth
For the eight session of our Dreadful Thoughts story club we’re heading way back to the Villa Diodati – summer residence of Byron & Co. and scene of a spooky story competition that helped produce not only Frankenstein, but John… continue reading »
Back on the Good Ship “Dreadful Thoughts”
This just in. Thanks to one of the many trans-dimensional portals opened by the CERN experiment I’ve managed to lock my homemade tractor beam onto something previously thought lost and irretrievably wrecked – the USS Dreadful Thoughts. Since it’s disappearance… continue reading »
