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The Crying of Lot 49
I am probably the last person to have read and Pynchon and thus everything I am going to say has no doubt been stated before. Nonetheless, I feel obligated to share my opinions because I haven’t written anything in months despite literally having been trapped at home for nearly half a year. The Crying of…
A Witch in Madrid
Gertrud wiped the sweat from her brow, and adjusted the brim of her wide-brimmed hat to shield her eyes from the oppressive Iberian sun. She had been recently promoted from her cushy tenure at the Military Academy for Applied Magic in Posen to regional vice-lieutenant of the occupation forces in Okzitanien, Katalonien, and Schwaben. The…
Implicit Supernaturalism in Cinema and Television
I recently listened to a podcast featuring ZeroHPLovecraft on the topic of H.P. Lovecraft and cinema: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZlx4smHnjw), and the most consistent through-line between all the films they discussed was the perceived difficulty, if not impossibility, of portraying Lovecraft’s particular style of alienating, existential, cosmic horror in a visual format like film. A while later I…
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