Better Than Food

Hi there y'all - We're about to embark on the second leg of our journey to the desert, so there will be no Better Than Friday next week as I'll be on the road somewhere in Northern Arizona. This last week I was reading Gabrielle Wittkop's 'Exemplary Departures' (excellent so far) when I discovered t

Good evening everyone! Finishing up The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, coming soon. Hope you're having a nice holiday season and staying warm. Thank you so much for continuing to support the show. Book Recommendation from Glen (below): The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells (Paid Link) Glen sold me

The very first English-language story about a Vampire. A nightmarish tale about the mesmerizing sadist Lord Ruthven. It was inspired by a fragment of a story written by Lord Byron, "Augustus Darvell" (included in this edition) during the ghost-story contest between Byron, Polidori, Percy and Mary Sh

A story of cannibalism as immortality and eroticism as disease. Links: The Birth of Horror: Dracula Documentary: https://youtu.be/vVLb6s5F0GU?si=sfSFdH9OyXzUHEhc Books - The Links Below Are Paid affiliate links: Gorey Edition I have in the video: https://amzn.to/3KSJh1U Alternative Gorey Edition: ht

Good evening friends! Editing the Dracula review - coming soon. Wishing you a nice weekend, hope you're reading something appropriately eerie - and if it's good, please tell us about it. Thank you so much for your continued support. A Gothic Novel Recommended by friend and patron Chris: Rebecca by D

Good eeeevening friends Hope you're enjoying the Season of the Witch. Thanks so much for your continued support. Current Read: "Dracula" by Bram Stoker w/ Illustrations by Edward Gorey (Paid Link) Seasonal reading, neck deep in this one - My first time reading it. "We should have put newspapers down

Good Friday evening from Florida my friends - the heat has abruptly returned with a vengeance. God almighty. Finished Freud's 'Civilization and its Discontents' today - Hell of a book. Review coming soon. Wishing you a great weekend, thanks very much for supporting the show. 1. Book I picked up rece

Good evening ya'll, mostly recovered on this end and thanks again for your very kind well wishes. Will be back to full strength soon. Much good stuff to come. Meanwhile... 1. Book to read: Malina by Ingeborg Bachmann (Paid Link) The story of a woman in love with two men, written by an author whom Th

One of the first true Vampire stories BEFORE Dracula Carmilla - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu BOOK REVIEW (YouTube)