Tag: death
5 Days of Oscar Wilde – 4: The Grosvenor Gallery, 1877
That ‘Art is long and life is short’ is a truth which every one feels, or ought to feel; yet surely those who were in London last May, and had in one week the opportunities of hearing Rubenstein play the Sonata Impassionata, of seeing Wagner conduct the Spinning-Wheel Chorus from the Flying Dutchman, and of studying art at the Grosvenor Gallery, have very little to complain of as regards human existence and art-pleasures. Continue reading 5 Days of Oscar Wilde – 4: The Grosvenor Gallery, 1877
Fiction Review: A Soundless Dawn by Dustin LaValley
A Soundless Dawn is a collection of horror flash fiction and short stories by Dustin LaValley. It has 41 pieces, ranging from a couple of sentences to fifteen pages in length. Themes touch upon grief, romantic relationships, loneliness, unrequited love, … Continue reading Fiction Review: A Soundless Dawn by Dustin LaValley
Short Story Saturday – Poltarnees, Beholder of Ocean
This week’s story is Lord Dunsany’s Poltarnees, Beholder of Ocean. Continue reading Short Story Saturday – Poltarnees, Beholder of Ocean
Ethel Le Rossignol – Psychic Artist
I was lucky enough to see a rare exhibition of her paintings at the Horse Hospital in London. Many of her paintings are on permanent display at the College of Psychic Studies in London. Each painting is a rich rainbow of floating figures adorned with thick golden paint. Continue reading Ethel Le Rossignol – Psychic Artist
A Poem From Ghérasim Luca
at the edge of a forest whose trees are slender ideas and each leaf a thought at bay the vegetal reveals to us the damned depths of an animal sect or more precisely an old insect anguish waking up as … Continue reading A Poem From Ghérasim Luca
The Shunned House – H.P. Lovecraft 3/5
Start from Chapter One. Chapter Three. It may well be imagined how powerfully I was affected by the annals of the Harrises. In this continuous record there seemed to me to brood a persistent evil beyond anything in Nature as I … Continue reading The Shunned House – H.P. Lovecraft 3/5
The Shunned House – H.P. Lovecraft 2/5
Read Chapter One here. Chapter Two. Not till my adult years did my uncle set before me the notes and data which he had collected concerning the shunned house. Dr. Whipple was a sane, conservative physician of the old school, … Continue reading The Shunned House – H.P. Lovecraft 2/5
H.P. Lovecraft Covers through the Years
I thought it would be fun to find H.P. Lovecraft book covers that span the decades and put them in order here. Enjoy the terror! Continue reading H.P. Lovecraft Covers through the Years
The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band – top 5 strangest songs
Known for their odd comedy songs and surreal covers of rag-time tracks, The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band started out on the hit 60s show Do Not Adjust Your Set (a precursor to what would later become Monty Python’s Flying Circus), alongside Eric Idle, Michael Palin, David Jason (amazingly, the most popular cast member at the time), Denise Coffey and Terry Jones. The show even included cut-out animation from the wonderful Terry Gilliam in the second series. It basically consisted of a group of twenty-somethings having fun and being silly. Although these co-stars went on to become far bigger than The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, many … Continue reading The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band – top 5 strangest songs
Jay Snelling Art 