Tag: Montagu Rhodes James
Videoconference: "The fantastic continuum: a conversation on the literary mystery"
Video of the conference held tonight with Mens ex Machina and Psy * Co * Re with the participation of Erik Davies.
William Hope Hodgson's Journey at the End of the Night
On April 19, 1918, William Hope Hodgson was hit by a shell on the Belgian front and prematurely left this world. We want to remember it like this, speaking of the new publication of Palindrome types,β¦
From Stonehenge to Rapa Nui: Donald Wandrei and the return of the Titans
Taking both hands from the "Weird" literature of HP Lovecraft e Arthur Machen and combining the proceeds with the hypotheses of Charles Fort and the theosophical and "Atlantean" doctrines, Wandrei's 1932 novel was able to anticipate if not actually shape most of the cultural currents ascribable to the so-called "alternative reality" of the second part of the twentieth century: from the "magic realism" of Jacques Bergier to the "paleo-astronautics", from the encounter with extraterrestrial civilizations up to some dystopian predictions that today, almost a century later, do not seem science fiction at all.
From Montague Rhodes James to Ari Aster's βHereditaryβ
In some of the most terrifying stories of Montague Rhodes James emerges the Hoffmannian-Ligottian theme of man as a puppet or marionette, at the mercy of demonic entities that hide behind the scenes of reality: particularly successful is "The Haunted Doll's House", which has partially inspired by Ari Aster's film βHereditaryβ.
