Steveawiggins

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• 2024 in Books

  

  I’m trying to figure it out.  My annual last post is my book reflection for the fading year.  I keep track of my books on Goodreads, and I always join their... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2024 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Bottoming Out?

  

  It was an honest mistake, I swear! I had remembered reading in Stephen King’s Danse Macabre that The Creeping Unknown was worth seeing. I’d known about this... Read more

  Posted on 30 December 2024 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Writing Academic

  

  One of the things that Stephen King detests (or at least detested back in the seventies) was academic literary criticism.  Perhaps you’re more normal than King... Read more

  Posted on 29 December 2024 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Vampire Lovers

  

  Stylish, gothic, dramatic. If it weren’t for the vampires you might not know that Only Lovers Left Alive is a horror movie. Indeed, some say it’s not. You can... Read more

  Posted on 28 December 2024 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• The Dark Season

  

  It was on Goodreads that I first saw The Gathering Dark. Since I’ve been trying to read more short stories, I decided I should give it a go. Read more

  Posted on 27 December 2024 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Historic Vampires

  

  Vampire movies have always been a guilty pleasure. The thing is, there are so many of them that watching them all would be the task of a lifetime (and a... Read more

  Posted on 26 December 2024 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• A Christmas Parable

  

  And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Donald Trump that all the world should be taxed.  2 (And this taxing was first made when... Read more

  Posted on 25 December 2024 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Eves and Holidays

  

  If you stop in to this blog for reading about horror movies, don’t worry, there’ll be plenty of that to come.  One thing everyone who knows me knows is that I... Read more

  Posted on 24 December 2024 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Mad, Bad

  

  Although epic poetry holds an important place in literary history, I tend to read prose more.  Like most wordsmiths, I do write poetry—more like dabble in it. Read more

  Posted on 23 December 2024 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Echoes

  

  Among the first books I read that might be considered Dark Academia was P. D. James’ Death in Holy Orders. That was so long ago that I don’t remember when,... Read more

  Posted on 22 December 2024 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Solstice 2024

  

  We have a small solstice celebration at home.  We’re not pagans, but it seems that the shortest day ought to be observed.  Noted.  Pondered.  You see, this... Read more

  Posted on 21 December 2024 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Scrolling Along

  

  I’ve got a condition.  “Oh, we know!” I hear you say.  But I mean a specific one.  Fast moving images make me nauseous.  It can be debilitating. Read more

  Posted on 20 December 2024 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Feeling Gothic

  

  Gothic is an odd movie. I first saw it while in seminary and have come back to it now and again. I had been thinking of Frankenstein, so I decided to refresh... Read more

  Posted on 19 December 2024 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Philosophical Thoughts

  

  Please don’t read too much into this!  I read a lot of professors who spend their careers trying to understand a previous scholar’s thoughts. Read more

  Posted on 18 December 2024 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Yes, Yes

  

  You had to’ve seen this coming. Ouija: Origin of Evil, with a different director and writer, and the same producer, pulled off the better prequel/sequel. I don’... Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2024 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Lovecraftian Advice

  

  It seemed natural enough to follow up Stephen King’s On Writing with H. P. Lovecraft’s famous essay “Supernatural Horror in Literature. Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2024 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Yes, Maybe

  

  The truth is, only experts and professionals can really keep up with horror films. As the most successful genre of, well, genre films, there are tons of them. Read more

  Posted on 15 December 2024 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Academic Publishing

  

  I had lunch with a friend a couple months back.  He is one of the few people who’s read The Wicker Man (the Devil’s Advocate version). Not many reviews... Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2024 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Not the Witch

  

  Hagazussa came to my attention from, I believe, the New York Times. In the autumn normally staid news sources start suggesting horror films to watch. Read more

  Posted on 13 December 2024 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Questioning Paradise

  

  The term “dark academia” is somewhat difficult to define. It is a rather new aesthetic, but it has been the topic of books and movies for some decades. Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2024 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY