Jun 29, 2021
Patricia Highsmith, author of novels like The Talented Mr. Ripley, Strangers on a Train, and The Price of Salt, was the daughter of artists, born in Fort Worth, Texas, and raised in New York City by her mother and stepfather, whose last name she adopted. She graduated from Barnard and had dreams of a writing career,...
Jun 15, 2021
Francis Stevens (1883-1948) was the pen name of Gertrude Barrows Bennett, aka “the woman who invented modern American dark fantasy.” Her story “Unseen--Unfeared,” an early example of weird fiction, was published in the February 10, 1919 issue of People’s Favorite Magazine. Like Tanith Lee’s “Yellow and...
Jun 1, 2021
The film Black Sunday (1960) is about a witch/vampire hellbent on revenge returns from the grave in 1830s Moldavia. She’s beautiful and deadly--and she has a doppelganger conveniently close to her old stomping grounds. The witch and her victim are both played by the arrestingly beautiful Barbara Steele, and this is...