Platypus of Truth

It's hard to grow up surrounded by at least 7 historic cemeteries and not be a "fraidy cat". In college, I set myself the task of tackling my fears by committing to watching X Files with the guys every Sunday for a year or two. It worked -a little. At some point, I discovered H.P. Lovecraft, Charles Williams, and Hellboy, and that helped more. I turned to writing my own supernatural thrillers for a number of years until a nervous breakdown and subsequent medication derailed my writing efforts. In an attempt to get re-started, my wife bought me a copy of "Save the Cat". So began my trek into Horror films as I attempted to master the ins and outs of the genre and its subfields. I've generally tried to avoid any obvious drek and keep only to the highlights. After a couple years, here are my favorites in no particular order: Alien - I saw this re-released in the theater during college and it still made me jump. More important is the way it uses the genre to hi...

Schematic drawing found in the apartment of Pickman the artist. Lately of Boston.

My discussion of ancient witches over at Eidos has reached its 10th post. Here is the link . The post contains the links to all of my prior posts on the subject and my series on shields and world-pictures. Even though I've only gotten one interaction (on the Shield of Achilles) because of the blog's no comment policy, it's still been fun to put my thoughts out their in a non-academic setting.