Coincidentally: Detachment
To investigate the quack theory of animal magnetism, a hypothesis of Franz Mesmer, for whom mesmerism is named, King Louis…
Coincidentally: Taking Flight
In a recent motion picture, computer technology shows the monster Godzilla toppling the Chrysler Building onto my bedroom. Special effects…
Hawthorne’s Young Goodman Brown: The American Nightmare
The surrender to sin in America is a species of Satanism. Whether through seduction or submission, depravity is the mantra of…
“Re: Vampires” by John H. Watson, M.D.
NB: The circumstances surrounding my access to this manuscript are of such moment that their publication is impossible. Those involved…
Coincidentally: A Bridge to the Future
The promise to “build a bridge to the future” has become a mantra in recent politics. It is less cogent…
Coincidentally: More Varieties of Religious Experience
Felicitous arrangements allowed me as a student to repair weekly to practice the piano in a house by the Folly…
The Spectre Bridegroom and the Immortal Love for Ghost Stories
It was a dark and stormy night… Besides “Once upon a time,” this storytelling opening has no equal. Is there any…
On Mowgli and Tarzan: Savage Reading for Civilized Readers
Despite the incorrigible march of civilization, there will always be an inborn appeal for feral fantasies. The howls of Romulus and…
Coincidentally: A Variety of Spirits
For twenty-five years, Francisco Morales delivered milk to the lactarians of El Paso, Texas. This “Pancho,” who died in 1997…
Coincidentally: Old Boney
A reflection of Mark Twain abides: “How often we recall with regret that Napoleon once shot at a magazine editor…
