Category: Literature
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Interviewed at the Drovers Gap
Interviewed at the Drovers Gap by the charming Henry Mitchell, who reads and writes in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Northern Carolina. Henry to Henry… https://droversgap.blogspot.com/2021/02/henry-to-henry.html DROVERS GAP. . . A STORY PLACE, NOT TOTALLY A FICTION, NOT QUITE ON A MAP. February 25, 2021HENRY TO HENRY… I read Henry Anderson’s new novel, Cape Misfortune […]
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Words for Mud, Ray Bradbury, Catherine Crowe.
Recent goings on. Hello. It’s February 2021. As I type this the rain is beating on the conservatory roof. Nearly all the paths around where I live are thick mud. Other words for mud, incidentally, include slobber, slabber, slutch, and lutulence, according to the Oxford English Dictionary.
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Looking Something Up in an Actual Book.
An interest in Buddhism, a fluctuating chronic illness and a near-fatal bout of cancer has left me with a feeling that belongings aren’t terribly important.
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Edgar Allan Poe’s Less Successful First Detective.
It is often claimed Edgar Allan Poe invented the modern detective story in “The Murder in the Rue Morgue.” When the character of C. Auguste Dupin first appeared in 1841, the word detective did not yet exist.
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Sheridan Le Fanu’s “Green Tea” and The Horror of Psychological Horror
There are no monsters in real-life, right? No ghosts, vampires or werewolves? So to avoid being laughed at some supernatural writers choose to go down the psychological route.
Henry Anderson 