Setup: Part One
One of the requirements for my Masters in English1 was the standard scholarly research course. The major assignment of the course was to create a bibliography on a subject or author and then compose a bibliographic essay from the findings. I chose to research H. P. Lovecraft because I’d been interested [...]

A quick round-up of Halloween-related pop-culture worthy of attention …
I recently finished reading Nicholas Rogers’ Halloween: From Pagan Ritual to Party Night–a slim, well-written text that still manages to cover a wide range of topics and provide tons of interesting facts and figures. For example, Halloween is actively celebrated by 65% of adults who spend [...]

If you’re an Edgar Allan Poe enthusiast or a fan of Matthew Pearl (The Dante Club, The Poe Shadow), this article in The New York Observer might be of interest. Did Poe die of a tumor? Drink always sounded most plausible to me, and the rabies thing was just a cheap way to go for [...]