"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."
Borrowing G.S. Kirk’s distinction between three kinds of myth, today on my Patreon we take a look at entertainment, operative, charter and explanatory myths, and what this distinction means for us when we tell a story. The post will be released to the public tomorrow, over there and here on the blog.
I wouldn’t have started this book on my own, and for many reasons. One of them is that in Italy it’s marketed as Young Adult Fiction, and I hate most of that stuff, and the other is its imposing length: 600 pages. I was distracted,
“The Phantom Farmhouse” is a short story written by Seabury Quinn, first published in the October 1923 issue of Weird Tales. It is one of Quinn’s most famous standalone works outside of his popular Jules de Grandin detective series. I had been at the new
“The Immortal Hand” is a supernatural short story written by pulp author Arlton Eadie (the pseudonym of Leopold Leonard Eady). It was originally published on March 1929 in Weird Tales and features interior artwork by the prominent pulp illustrator C.C. Senf. “With a calm and
I wouldn’t have started this book on my own, and for many reasons. One of them is that in Italy it’s marketed as Young Adult Fiction, and I hate most of that stuff, and the other is its imposing length: 600 pages. I was distracted,
“The Phantom Farmhouse” is a short story written by Seabury Quinn, first published in the October 1923 issue of Weird Tales. It is one of Quinn’s most famous standalone works outside of his popular Jules de Grandin detective series. I had been at the new
“The Immortal Hand” is a supernatural short story written by pulp author Arlton Eadie (the pseudonym of Leopold Leonard Eady). It was originally published on March 1929 in Weird Tales and features interior artwork by the prominent pulp illustrator C.C. Senf. “With a calm and
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