Such is the unnatural body of this god, which has no kinship with the dust of our world; indeed, it is not flesh as we know flesh, but as crystal or glass, and soft so that during his dreaming death it often breaks apart, but when it breaks it at once reforms itself, held in its pattern by the will of the great one. Such is the unnatural nature of this sleep, which has no … [Read more...] about The Monster Inside of Me
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Fight For Your Life
Fight if that’s necessary, but run if you can, just so long as you run together. The words of Louis L’Amour echoed in her mind, she had lost so many companions already, it felt like a bad joke. She wiped the residue from her sweaty face with her charred sleeve, there was heat radiating from the building that lay in fiery ruin in front of her. She was alone now. Who could … [Read more...] about Fight For Your Life
Investigating the Origins of the Necronomicon
You've come across an ancient book, not just some dust-covered antique that you found at your local bookstore; no, this was gifted to you with the confidence that you would heed the warning on the attached note and stash the book in a lock-box far away from prying eyes that may fall upon the archaic and mysterious pages of this increasingly enticing tome. Its pages call out to … [Read more...] about Investigating the Origins of the Necronomicon
The Morbid Feminist Voice Behind the First Sci-Fi and Dystopian Apocalyptic Horror Novels
Why on earth would a delicate woman of your stature write about such awful, disturbing, and blasphemous things? As the daughter of the brilliant feminist Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin as the reformist writer and philosopher William Godwin, Shelley is famously noted for her 1831 introduction to a reprint of Frankenstein. Her explanation that, “it is not singular that, as the … [Read more...] about The Morbid Feminist Voice Behind the First Sci-Fi and Dystopian Apocalyptic Horror Novels
Mary Shelley: How a Teenager Changed the Literary World
Growing Up in a Literary Household Born in London, England on August 30, 1797, as Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin--Mary was the daughter of famed feminist Wollstonecraft as well as the philosopher and political writer William Godwin. Her mother Mary Wollstonecraft authored The Vindication of the Rights of Woman in 1792, but she died shortly after Shelley was born, and … [Read more...] about Mary Shelley: How a Teenager Changed the Literary World