Category: The Art of Writing

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Art: The Bride of Frankenstein by Flore Maquin

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Very few movies have that one defining moment that everyone recognizes, a single frame destined to never be forgotten—Marion Crane screaming in the shower just moments before she’s stabbed to death by psycho Norman Bates, or Jack Torrence peering through a shattered door with a twisted grin stretching across his face are both examples of the kind of power a single frame of film can have. And yet, not all of these moments are so striking or even scary—take James Whale’s brilliant sequel The Bride of Frankenstein for example. It’s a subtle shot in the film that comes and goes in the blink of an eye, yet that one single frame is flooring. It’s here when The Monster realizes that his Bride, played by the stunning Elsa Lanchester, hates him like everyone else. That look, that fear and doubt speaks a thousand words.

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Mark Taylor’s ‘A Night at the Dream Theater’ Review

I hadn’t really pinpointed the thing that most frightens me when I started this book. Sure, had you asked, I could rattle off a list of the usual that have been known to make my blood pressure go u…

Source: Mark Taylor’s ‘A Night at the Dream Theater’ Review

Seven of the Best Modernist Short Stories Everyone Should Read

The best modernist stories A number of modernist novels are praised as among the greatest novels of the twentieth century: James Joyce’s Ulysses, Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway, and Joseph Conrad’s …

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A Summary and Analysis of Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Oval Portrait’

A reading of Poe’s classic short story ‘The Oval Portrait’ (1842) is one of the shortest tales Edgar Allan Poe ever wrote. In just a few pages, he offers a powerful story about the relationship bet…

Source: A Summary and Analysis of Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Oval Portrait’

A Conversation between the Spice Trader’s Daughter and her Lover, a Fortnight after She Burned at the Stake

by Sophie van Llewyn In the courtroom, the sound of what they wanted to hear was blinding. But not for me — I saw the inquisitors for what they were, children with shiny scalps, overgrown beards an…

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Read Robert Louis Stevenson’s weird fable “The Yellow Paint”

“The Yellow Paint” by Robert Louis Stevenson In a certain city there lived a physician who sold yellow paint. This was of so singular a virtue that whoso was bedaubed with it from head …

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