by Lucy A. Snyder | Sep 6, 2015 | Columns
Zombie is the epistolary story of Quentin P., the underachieving son of a college professor who is out on parole after being put on trial for sexually molesting a teenager. Quentin is under the supervision of his worried parents and his court-appointed psychiatrist,...
by Wayne Edwards | Aug 29, 2015 | Columns
What does September mean to me, you ask? No, I know no one would ever ask that question, but if they did, I would say school is getting going. I have been moonlighting in higher education for a while now (a few decades) and this time of year always brings me...
by Lucy A. Snyder | Aug 23, 2015 | Columns
The classic Nathaniel Hawthorne tale “Rappaccini’s Daughter” tells the story of a young man named Giovanni who moves to Padua to be a university student. Every day from his rented room, he sees a beautiful young woman named Beatrice working in a strange and lovely...
by Lucy A. Snyder | Aug 8, 2015 | Columns
The Pink Institution by Selah Saterstrom is a Southern gothic novel that tells the stories of four generations of women in the Deep South through a combination of poetry and prose. It’s a brutal, beautiful, disturbing book. The chronicle of abuse, alcoholism and...
by Wayne Edwards | Jul 29, 2015 | Columns
I usually take the first paragraph (or two) to complain about, eh, this and that…usually it is more of a whine. This time, however, I am going to jump right off with two happy experiences: the Mayhem Festival and the Connecticut HorrorFest. For the record let me say...
by Lucy A. Snyder | Jul 25, 2015 | Columns
The Shadow Over Innsmouth is a classic horror novella by H.P. Lovecraft. It tells the first-person story of a young man on break from college who travels to an isolated seaside New England village and discovers that it is run by a cult and most of the townsfolk are...
