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  • What Our Monsters Possibly Might Tell Us

    There are monsters around this time of year. Creatures of folklore and horror fiction. All of them presumably had creators at some point -people  who had to puzzle and make creative decisions about their monstrous imaginary progeny.

    Henry Anderson

    October 24, 2016
    Literature, Writing
  • The Nurse Who Would Not Meet My Eye

    The nurse would not meet my eye. Somehow that seemed fraught with meaning. “I am so dead,” I thought.

    Henry Anderson

    September 7, 2016
    Uncategorized
  • Some Interesting Locations In “The Mouth”

    A few locations that inspired my new novel (and thus became imaginary places whose similarities to actual real places are entirely co-incidental) The Maunsell Sea Forts The Maunsell Sea Forts are armed towers built in the Thames and Mersey estuaries during the Second World War.

    Henry Anderson

    July 31, 2016
    The Mouth
  • Triumph of the Goths!

    Gothic was named after the Visigoths, the barbarian European tribes who defeated and sacked Ancient Rome.

    Henry Anderson

    July 16, 2016
    Literature
  • Edgar Allan Poe and “Genre” Writing.

    Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar” was published in 1845. In the story a mesmerist (a kind of hypnotist) puts a dying man called Valdemar in a suspended hypnotic state at the moment of death.

    Henry Anderson

    May 28, 2016
    Literature
    Edgar Allan Poe
  • Kenostic vs. Heuristic Storytelling

    I once attended a lecture on the Polish-born English novelist Joseph Conrad. The lecturer talked about two types of text.

    Henry Anderson

    May 8, 2016
    Literature
    Heart of Darkness, Robinson Crusoe
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