Sure, Mother’s Day is a day of flowers and homemade construction paper cards and vouchers for doing the dishes, but […]
Pandora’s Pick of the Week: “Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”
STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE By Robert Louis Stevenson Background: Published in 1886, this story has long […]
The Playground
The Playground © Joanna Parypinski Underneath the snow, the playground sleeps, iced over. The wind sighs; the skies grow gray; […]
Pandora’s Pick of the Week: “Insidious”
INSIDIOUS (2011) Background: I read some pretty good reviews of this movie, while managing to avoid spoilers until I saw […]
Nightmare
© Joanna Parypinski Polished rocks like skulls on the shore, wind-washed, watch the hull of our dark ship drifting on […]
Happy Birthday, Jack Nicholson!
Instead of having a story or movie for today’s Pick of the Week, I’m going to pick an actor: Jack […]
Castles and Catacombs
“Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places. For them are the catacombs of Ptolemais, and the carven mausolea of the […]
Pandora’s Pick of the Week: “In the Penal Colony”
IN THE PENAL COLONY By Franz Kafka Background: Kafka was an early 20th century German-Jewish writer of grotesque, surreal stories, […]
Demon Spawn: Why Do We Love Creepy Kids?
My roommate recently gave birth to a wrinkly little blob of babyness. I haven’t yet met the child, but I […]
Pandora’s Pick of the Week: “The Yellow Wallpaper”
THE YELLOW WALLPAPER By Charlotte Perkins Gilman Background: Published in 1892, this short story is not only a wonderful example […]
