Divers and Sundry

Legacy of the Dead is the 4th book in the Detective Ian Rutledge detective series by mother/son writing team Charles Todd. I like this WW...

Lady for a Day is a 1933 pre-code Frank Capra comedy/drama about Depression-era destitute Apple Annie, whose daughter was raised in a Spani...

image from the screenshot gallery at the  WaldenGame  website I don't have a competitive bone in my body, so games and organized gr...

Card Trick is a 1961 science fiction short story about mind-reading and telekinesis and poker by John Berryman (alias Walter Bupp). You...

My Name Is Julia Ross is a 1945 gothic film noir about a woman desperately seeking employment who is taken advantage of. It stars Nina Foch...

In Winter is a 2004 poem by Michael Ryan . You can read it here . It begins At four o’clock it’s dark. Today, looking out through du...

Blade on the Feather is a 1980 television drama directed by Dennis Potter and starring Donald Pleasence. It's a political thriller, whi...

Runaway is a 2003 short story by Alice Munro about a woman in an abusive marriage. You can read it online here . It begins, Carla hea...

Nosferatu: A Symphony Of Horrors is a 1922 German Expressionist horror movie, a take on the vampire story. It's directed by F. W. Murna...

Acqua Alta is the 5th Commissario Guido Brunetti detective novel by Donna Leon . I'm reading these books as I can, filling in with one...

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World is a 2003 film based on three of the novels in author Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey–Matu...

Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? is a 1966 short story by Joyce Carol Oates. Wikipedia says It was inspired by three Tucson, Arizo...

Polish Films I have blog posts on: 1930s: The Dybbuk (1937) 1950s: Ashes and Diamonds (1958) 1960s: Przekładaniec (1968) 198...

Orochi is a silent 1925 Japanese film. From Wikipedia: The film tells the story of a samurai who falls on hard times due to misunderstand...

Young Goodman Brown is an 1835 Nathaniel Hawthorne short story. You can read it online here or here or here . It begins, Young Goodman ...

Alice in Wonderland (1903) is a silent short, the first film adaptation of the Lewis Carroll fantasy novel . The only known print of this i...

The Artist’s Wife in the Gazebo : by Gerhard Munthe , who died on this date in 1929. I'm linking this post to the T Stands for Tues...

Behind Green Lights is a 1946 film noir starring Carle Landis, who committed suicide two years later. It also stars John Ireland. This is j...

Sadly, Chip and Dale's antique mall has closed .

original poster image from Wikipedia Fascination is a 1979 French horror movie about women who begin drinking ox blood as a doctor-rec...