Dread Readings: The Romance of Certain Old Clothes
The original text of this Henry James story is from Wikimedia Commons. You can read along and make fun of how I slip up on words like constance.
Dread Readings: A Citizen of Carcosa
Ambrose Bierce wrote A Citizen of Carcosa, creating a city that would become permanently part of the horror mythos of modern English. The story captured the imagination, and inspired the use of the narrator in future horror and fear writers, and was done at a time in Bierce’s life between fighting confederate soldiers, shaking down millionaires for railroad taxes, and fighting in the Mexican civil war.
Dude was interesting.
Dread Readings: The Music of Erich Zann
What would Dread Month be, without a little dash of Howard Phillips ‘Jesus Christ What A Racist’ Lovecraft?
Content warning: There’s an unvoiced person in this story who is referred to with pretty typical cruel terms.
Dread Readings: The Raven
Last year, my sister told me that Edgar Allan Poe was from southern Virginia, and so he should not have a posh, British-style accent, but a southern one.