Month: February 2019

The Most Horrifying Things About ‘Return To Oz’, The Disney Movie That Traumatized A Generation

Return to Oz, the terrifying sequel to Wizard of Oz, isn’t just disturbing. It’s also a brutally sad movie that attempts to look at the long-term effects of childhood trauma through the lens of a young girl trying to return to a fantasy world that’s been completely upended. This weird Wizard of …
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J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s Squire Toby’s Will: A Two-Minute Summary and Analysis of the Classic Ghost Story | Oldstyle Tales Press | Classic Horror Fiction | Classic Ghost Stories

Revenge has consistently been a major theme of Le Fanu’s supernatural fiction. Whether it be the revenge of a spectral agent (Ultor de Lacy, The Familiar, etc.
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The Female Sherlock Holmes: C. L. Pirkis’ Loveday Brooke — Interesting Literature

In this week’s Dispatches from The Secret Library, Dr Oliver Tearle applauds the 1890s short stories featuring an early female detective The name Catherine Louisa Pirkis is relatively unknown now, but Pirkis left two legacies of interest. The first arose out of her animal charity work: with her husband, Pirkis was one of the founders […]

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TOLKIEN, the Teaser Trailer: A New Biopic by Fox Searchlight (Friday Feature) — A Pilgrim in Narnia

There has been buzz about this for a few months now, and really years of wondering and wandering on Hollywood-quality biopic of Tolkien. Fox Searchlight has picked up the idea and has finally announced a release date of May 10th. Jeepers, I’m guessing five years or more since this was announced and we started speculating […]

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