Jump to content
Post-Update: Forum Issues Read more... ×
BPAL Madness!
Post-Update: Forum Issues

eldritchhobbit

Members
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Content Count

    667

  • Joined

  • Last visited

Blog Entries posted by eldritchhobbit

  4. eldritchhobbit
    October 10: This Is Not a Test by Courtney Summers (2012)

    Quote 1:
    We eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner to the soundtrack of our own impending death.
    Quote 2:
    Sometimes you catch something specific like the screams and cries of people trying to hold on to each other before they’re swallowed into other, bigger noises. This is what it sounds like when the world ends.

    View the full post.
  6. eldritchhobbit
    October 8: Conjure Wife by Fritz Leiber (1943) 
    Quote: 
    Things are different from what I thought. They’re much worse.
    Film Adaptations: Weird Woman (1944), Night of the Eagle (A.K.A. Burn, Witch, Burn!) (1962), and Witches’ Brew (A.K.A. Which Witch is Which?) (1980)

    View the full post.
  10. eldritchhobbit
    31 Days of Dark Academia: Halloween 2021
    October 4: Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay (1967)
    Quote:
    The girl so far had remembered nothing of her experiences on the Rock; nor, in Doctor McKenzie’s opinion or that of the two eminent special­ists from Sydney and Melbourne, would she ever remember. A portion of the delicate mechanism of the brain appeared to be irrevocably damaged. 
    “Like a clock, you know,” the doctor explained. “A clock that stops under a certain set of unusual conditions and refuses ever to go again beyond a particular point.”

    View the full post.
  13. eldritchhobbit
    October 1: Hangsaman by Shirley Jackson (1951)
    Quote:
    Poor things, she thought - do they have to spend all this energy just to surround me? It seemed pitiful that these automatons should be created and wasted, never knowing more than a minor fragment of the pattern in which they were involved, to learn and follow through insensitively a tiny step in the great dance which was seen close up as the destruction of Natalie, and far off, as the end of the world.
    They had all earned their deaths, Natalie thought…

    View the full post.
  21. eldritchhobbit
    Vernon Press - Call for Book Chapters: Edited volume on Star Trek and Star Wars: Call for Abstracts
    Edited volume on Star Trek and Star Wars
    Edited by Emily Strand, MA and Amy H. Sturgis, PhD
    Vernon Press
    The generations-spanning, multimedia franchises Star Trek and Star Wars will form the focus for this edited collection of scholarly essays. As venerable and evolving repositories of science fiction and fantasy storytelling, and as towering pillars of popular culture, both Star Trek and Star Wars inspire, transform, and even at times inflame their often overlapping fan bases. Together with the publisher, the editors seek proposals for essays exploring these franchises’ themes, narratives, characters, treatment of moral and philosophical dilemmas, religious or spiritual notions, and other aspects. (Abstracts for essays which compare or contrast the two franchises are also welcome.) Collected essays will offer insight — from a variety of disciplines and perspectives — on how these franchises contribute to popular culture and the tradition of speculative storytelling.
    Abstracts and subsequent essays should be academically rigorous yet accessible to the informed (even non-academic) reader. Abstracts of 300-500 words in length should be submitted, along with a brief biographical statement, by August 2, 2021. Authors of accepted papers will be notified by September 1, 2021, and paper drafts should be submitted by January 10, 2022.
    More information is here.

    View the full post.
×