Witches dance and werewolves howlVampires bite and ogres growlGhosts and ghouls come into the lightJoining the fun on Halloween night Children line up to trick or treatLaughing and skipping down the streetBehind each mask, who will it beTake off the mask and who will you see One day each year the two worlds meetMonsters come…
In times past, forests represented something magical and dangerous, because it was unknown. A person might go into the forest, but they would stay on known trackways, go to known places. Not content with mundane dangers of the forest (getting lost, starving to death, attacked by robbers, killed by wild animals), human beings would extrapolate…
By the author of “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell” and “Piranesi”, these eight short stories are a combination of stories set in the world of “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell” as well as some fairy tales that readers will find familiar, though reworked in the author’s own style. It’s a highly entertaining group of stories…
“Night of the Eagle” is based on a story by Fritz Leiber, and the screenplay was written by Fritz Leiber, Richard Matheson and two others. It concerns a university professor who is a sceptic, dismissing all superstition and insisting everything can be explained rationally. When he discovers his wife has been practising magic for years,…
Eclectic Assemblage 