Six (free!) Dark Fantasy Novellas for Halloween from Tor.com
1. Red as Blood and White as Bone by Theodora Goss A dark fantasy about a kitchen girl obsessed with fairy…
1. Red as Blood and White as Bone by Theodora Goss A dark fantasy about a kitchen girl obsessed with fairy…
How do we approach an age that, increasingly, feels unanchored from our emotional present? Why do the outsized passions and…
Do check out my article in the latest issue of the Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies – “What of Her Glass…
The latest publication from the Darwin Correspondence Project, Darwin and Women, begins with its own taxonomic quandary. From the outset…
Fitz-James O’Brien (1828-1862) was an Irish-American Civil War soldier and one of the forerunners of the Science-Fiction genre. His primary literary connection…
The orchid mantis, (Hymenopus coronatus) is renowned for its visual resemblance to an orchid in bloom. Its pink heart-shaped mid-and hind-legs…
In the mid nineteenth-century no handbag was complete without a Schloss Bijou Almanac. Anticipating the portability of kindles and tablets,…
In The Entomologist’s Dream (1909) by Edmund Dulac an entomologist – in a state of near collapse – bears witness to…
Welcome poverty!..Welcome misery, welcome houselessness, welcome hunger, rags, tempest, and beggary! Mutual confidence will sustain us to the end! –…
Throughout the nineteenth-century the mania for seashells steadily swelled; they featured on Christmas cards, and adorned countless keepsakes, jewellery, and furniture….