Tag archive: Dreadful Thoughts
Dreadful Thoughts: Distractions, Apologies, Crawford
Update 09/04/09: By an odd, but happy, coincidence today is the 100th anniversary of F. Marion Crawford’s death. Uncanny stuff. Update 06/04/09: Oops. Sorry folks. It seems I mistakenly said that discussion of “The Upper Berth” would be kicking off… continue reading »
Dreadful Thoughts Story Club 10: The Inmost Light
Welsh Anglo-Catholic occultist. Member (briefly) of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. Avowed anti-materialist. Inspirer of everyone’s favourite pathologically racist horror grandmaster: H.P. Lovecraft. Sometime scandaliser of (an easily scandalised) Victorian society. Fearer/Lover of fauns who gambolled oftentimes in… continue reading »
The Return of the Son of the Dog of Dreadful Thoughts
Penury? Ruin? Weeping and gnashing of rotten teeth? Corpses putrefying in the streets – their strewn entrails being slurped up like spaghetti by ravenous curs? Demented pedestrians cracking open each other’s heads to feast on the goo inside? All now… continue reading »
Horror Bits and Nasty Bobs
Given the current global financial apocalypse I assume that most of you are now eating shoe leather for dinner, wailing yourselves to sleep in damp & draughty cardboard boxes, and shaking your sore-encrusted fists at an indifferent god. While I… continue reading »
Dreadful Thoughts Story Club 9: Gabriel-Ernest
Misanthrope? Misogynist? Satirist? Supernaturalist? Tonight, on Dreadful Thoughts, we’re not only getting out the club magnifying glass to squint at the werewolf myth (through the prism of “Gabriel Ernest”), but also asking (in strong, but non-judgmental, terms) what Hector Hugh… continue reading »
Dreadful Thoughts: Fústar vs. The Wolf Man
Being (occasionally) a collaborative sort who (occasionally) values input, I canvassed regular and semi-regular Dreadful Thoughts “members” as to what tale they’d most like to cover in Story Club session number 9. After last week’s encounter with a Byronic “Vampyre”,… continue reading »
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 »
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 »
