Andrew Migliore and John Strysik’s Lurker in the Lobby: A Guide to the Cinema of H. P. Lovecraft is a love letter, not only to the gothic American writer, but to those who have likewise took the time to puzzle their way through Lovecraft’s mythos, adapting his tales...
Austrian author Franz Kafka, in a few short weeks with Wittgensteinian compositional labor, penned what many consider to be one of the greatest works of 20th century literature, The Metamorphosis. More fascinating perhaps, and in many respects as ironical as the...
American novelist John Hawkes is often accused of penning unnecessarily convoluted, pessimistic tales which shamefully hide behind the curtain of postmodernism. Many of these commentators would indubitably cite David Foster Wallace’s distain for what he calls Bret...
Begun on October 22, 1785 and manically written upon a piece of makeshift parchment measuring 12 centimeters by 12 meters (4.7 inches by almost 40 feet), Marquis de Sade crafted 16 microscopic words per square inch over the course of 37 days in order to produce his...
Bret Easton Ellis’s controversial 1991 novel, American Psycho, is a torturous text, not only for the characters involved, but also the reader. Set in Manhattan in 1987 and ending at the offset of the following decade, the narrative follows the daily routine of one...
“You tell me why’s a man’s blood is any better or any more precious than a dog’s blood? It sure ain’t to the dog.” –Avery Allan Ludlow, Senior Jack Ketchum, the nom de plume of Dallas Mayr, is a horror writer. However, his trade is that of the all-too-real...
