The War of the Worlds and the Significance of Science Fiction
In 1938, the world was waiting for war. Germany had invaded Czechoslovakia. The United States was battling the Great Depression. The…
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux: Triumphant Tragedy
All great literature is well written, but not all that is well written is great literature. In other words, there are…
Coincidentally: Heirs to the Hairless
Dr. Martin Routh, president of Magdalen College for 63 years, was the last Oxford don to wear a wig in…
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…
