Posts from 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...

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...

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...

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...

Makes People Disappear

There's something vaguely touching and poignant about mysteries that have (due to the whims of fashion) passed out of mainstream popular...