Nothing works perfectly the first time you try it out, right? Doesn’t matter if you’re fumbling with a girl in the backseat of a Fiesta or s...

Here's a silly little cartoon I did this morning. Been reading King Solomon's Mine's recently, and there's an awful lot of g...

At the end of this novella is a brief editor’s note in which John Crowley lists the history book Pax Brittanica as a reference, and thanks ...

I’m going to have to plumb a bit deeper than usual into the depths of weird fiction in order to review an early example of Orientalist liter...

Ever spent a little time away from real life? Ever lived far from home, immersed in an alien culture in which you can be a new person? In su...

Carl Sagan has a lot to answer for. In 1980, the famous astronomer and rationalist (Dawkins would have loved him) wrote the book and TV seri...

It strikes me that there are certain kinds of ‘supernatural’ occurrences or superstitions that most people take more seriously than others. ...