I’ll bet that like the kid who pointed them out to me, the gargoyles of Perth Amboy were locally born—a hundred years distant, but raised in an age that perceives the medieval wherever you look.
entry by entry, his hyper informed perspective and clear writing establishes that story. He's laying out the subculture's CV in a manner that's punchy without being invasive or tongue in cheek. It's not that Galbraith is unbiased
I can’t remember ever reading a horror story based in war times, so that was a completely fresh premise for me. Plus, this story gets injected with a creepy cult and dark supernatural beasties that make it a great page-turner to kick off any October TBR. “‘Come Forth, O Dark Ones...
The literature yielded only a single report of injury, but Witcombe says he “got sucked into this rather amusing exchange of [e-mail] communications” with Dan Meyer, a Tennessee-based sword swallower, who had created a large database on the subject. This conversation led to the joint paper...
in Inverness who is interested in Anglo-Saxon riddles. As they travel, stopping at various sites of historical interest, Borges takes Parini on a grand tour of Western literature and ideas, while promising to teach him about love and poetry. Borges’s world of labyrinths, mirrors, and doubles...