Monthly Archives: August 2020

The following is largely taken from my Horror Fiction in the Twentieth Century, which if you’re interested in the development of and history of horror fiction, both in the Anglophone world and in the rest of the world, is essential … Continue reading →

The following is an excerpt from my Encyclopedia of Fantastic Victoriana, Second Edition. Those story and novel titles in boldface are entries in the Encyclopedia. The Yellow Peril. Although the anti-Asian stereotype of the “Yellow Peril,” the threat posed to the West by Asian … Continue reading →

In case you don’t know, I’ve been posting a bit on Twitter and over on Patreon. The following is one of the free posts I did there: Stealing from @mc_ellis: “This is the City, Karl-Marx-Stadt. My name is Freitag, I … Continue reading →