Morphosis

Friday, 2 August 2019

Zombi

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The OED says the first recorded use of the word ‘zombie’ (a word originally ‘of West African origin’) in English is 1819: 1819 R. So...
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Thursday, 25 July 2019

Loving Our Monsters: Thoughts on "Communion Town"

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In the introduction to a recent reprint of Dracula (Constable, 2012) Colm Tóibín makes the case for Stoker’s book not just as a great n...
Sunday, 7 July 2019

A Trove of Triffids

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John Wyndham's 1951 novel The Day of the Triffids manages the impressive task of making vegetables scary. It requires a degree of c...
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Friday, 5 July 2019

Morlock poem

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Wells’s Morlocks Suffer everything from rickets to smallpox. Turns out that living so molesome Is pretty unwholesome.
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Existence Compared to a Bicycle Race

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Our soul rides the peloton Of bones that is our skeleton: Life's macabre dance A Tour de more-than- France This skin A yellow...
Thursday, 27 June 2019

The Cow

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The cow jumped over the moon. The cow jumped under the moon. The cow went around and around the moon. The cow, altering its course frac...
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Sunday, 23 June 2019

The Man Who Fell to Earth (dir, Nick Roeg, 1976)

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[This is a review of the Special Edition DVD (2-Discs, OPTD0732) release of Roeg's The Man Who Fell to Earth that I wrote some year...
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