The Black Cat (1934): Dreams of Power and the Shadows of War

Universal’s strangest triumph pairs Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi in a feverish blend of horror, eroticism, and postwar dread.

It had to do with the murder of a poor old woman accused by her neighbours of being a witch. Recently, due to a strange turn of events, I had the opportunity to know the details and the circumstantial history behind a deed

Oonah Joslin and Michael Lee Johnson share a deep sensitivity to time’s passing and to the luminous threads that bind thought, memory, and mortality.

Joslin writes from the thresholds of being--between circuitry and soul, between what is known and what is felt. Her work moves with quiet precision through the mysteries of consciousness, giving voice to the ache of awareness and the strange persistence of light.

Johnson’s poetry, rich with recollection and emotional clarity, turns toward the human heart’s endurance: love and regret, the fragile sanctuaries of faith and memory, and the subtle power of small moments reclaimed from loss. Together, their poems form a dialogue between star and soil, imagination and experience. They remind us that art, at its truest, is a form of remembering--a way to hold the vanishing world a little longer, and to find in its fading edges a reason to go on believing in beauty.

From Shadowed Pages to the Silver Screen

Before horror flickered to life in the cinemas of the 1930s, it whispered through the ghostly tales of BÃÂ�cquer, Nodier, Gautier, and their Romantic heirs. Michael Wooff’s elegant translations restore those early visions,of love turned spectral, of beauty shadowed by death, while Steve Zelnick’s new film reviews follow their echoes onto the screen. Together they trace the evolution of fear and fascination, from candlelit manuscripts to Technicolor nightmares, revealing how Europe’s haunted imagination found new form in Hollywood’s pre-Code age.

Ancestor by Jim Boring

The Witches Grace by Nonnie Augustine

Dance of the Dead by Maureen Wilkenson

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My Lady Adair by A.J. Brown

Gothic by Nonnie Augustine

Poem Written While Delaying Suicide by Scurvy Bastard