It’s Their Greatest Invention As Of Yet

how it felt watching the wolverine/deadpool honda odyssey “fight” scene

him: you better not be too wordy when I get there

my helplessly verbose and over-articulate, endlessly expounding posterior:

Werewolf Literature Masterpost

Fiction

“The Man Wolf” by Leitch Ritchie (1831) [GoogleBooks]

“Hughes the Wer-Wolf: A Kentish Legend of the Middle Ages” by Sutherland Menzies (1838) [Werewolfpage.com]

“The White Wolf of the Hartz Mountains” by Frederick Marryat, from his The Phantom Ship (1839) [Project Gutenberg] [Donaldcorrell.com]

Wagner the Wehr-wolf by George W. M. Reynolds (1847) [Project Gutenberg] [GoogleBooks] [Wikisource]

Le Meneur de loups (The Wolf Leader) by Alexandre Dumas (1857) [GoogleBooks] [Archive.org]

“Hugues-le-loup” (“The Man-Wolf”) by Emile Erckmann and Alexandre Chatrian (1859) [Project Gutenberg] [GoogleBooks]

“The White Wolf of Kostopchin” by Sir Gilbert Campbell, from his Wild and Weird Tales of Imagination and Mystery (1889) [Elfinspell.com] [Unz.org]

“A Pastoral Horror” by Arthur Conan Doyle (1890) [Project Gutenberg] [The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia]

“The Mark of the Beast” by Rudyard Kipling (1891) [The Kipling Society] [Readbookonline.net]

“The Other Side: A Breton Legend” by Eric Stenbock (1893) [Gaslight]

The Were-wolf by Clarence Housman (1896) [Project Gutenberg]

“The Werewolf” by Eugene Field, from his The Second Book of Tales (1896) [Readbookonline.net]

The Werwolves” by Henry Beaugrand (1898) [Gaslight] [Gwthomas.org]

The Camp of the Dog by Algernon Blackwood (1908) [Project Gutenberg] [Librivox - Audio]

“Gabriel-Ernest” by Saki (1910) [Readbookonline.net] [Archive.org - Audio]

“The She-Wolf” by Saki (1910) [Eastoftheweb.com]

The Thing in the Woods by Margery Williams (1913) [Babel.hathitrust.org]

The Door of the Unreal by Gerald Biss (1919) [GoogleBooks] [Gothic Texts] [Donaldcorrell.com]

“Running Wolf” by Algernon Blackwood (1921) [Project Gutenberg]

“The Phantom Farmhouse” by Seabury Quinn (1923) [Nightgallery.net - .DOC]

“Wolfshead” by Robert E. Howard (1926) [Project Gutenberg]

“Tarnhelm” by Hugh Walpole (1933) [Project Gutenberg]

The Werewolf of Paris by Guy Endore (1933) [Vb-tech.co.za - PDF]

Non-Fiction

“The Life and Death of Peter Stubbe” (1590) [Werewolfpage.com]

The Book of Were-Wolves by Sabine Baring-Gould (1865) [Project Gutenberg] [GoogleBooks] [Sacred Texts]

Werewolves by Elliott O’Donnell (1912) [Project Gutenberg]

Human Animals by Frank Hammel (1915) [Project Gutenberg]

Starting to think we told children that The Fair Folk were out there to trap you in twisted words and doublespeak and clever traps that take what you say and turn it against you for cruel and mischievous purposes just to drive home the importance of critical thinking and analytical skills

If we don’t start putting funding back into the education system I’m gonna invent a creepy pasta that steals your face if you can’t recognize media bias

Some quick drawings because I've caught up on Dracula Daily! Jonathan is NOT having a good time

Hope you enjoy, and have an AWESOME day!!

Musings on Ice-Pick Joe

I'm not sure why no one is talking about Ice-Pick Joe's death scene, especially with rumors of the Ice-Pick Joe prequel circulating the internet.

The scene where Ice-Pick Joe walked by Sofia's window on his way to the fateful meeting with Katya, stopping to lean against the light post long enough to see two silhouettes come together. (I can't be the only one who was getting Blue Velvet vibes in that scene?) Why isn't anyone talking about his longing? The voyeurism? His fear of abandonment stemming from childhood trauma...after all, his mother picked him, of all his siblings, to leave at the orphanage! She left him with nothing but those appleseeds that he carried around in his pockets.

I'm absolutely sure that Sofia was the unnamed child in Joe's flashback (Jodie Foster was so good as the scrappy, androgynous best friend. She did have a limp in that scene when they were running from the cemetery. We don't actually know at what age Sofia lost her leg. And Donny Osmond was the perfect young Ice-Pick Joe!)

If you watch closely, she had the same birthmark on her shoulder in that first awkward kiss scene that Sofia had when she and Katya fought that night of her birthday, when she ripped her blouse and threw her glass of champagne at the wall.)

But back to Joe on the empty street, those shadows against the wall like shadow puppets, and the way the clock motif came back at that moment? Such haunting music, reprised again in the film score during Joe's death (I still cry when I hear "The Demise of Ice-Pick Joe". Linking to it here, because I played it on repeat when the movie was over. Brilliant and haunting.)

Remember how the flashbacks showed us that Ice-Pick Joe was really superstitious and believed that he had inherited his grandmother's gifts? If you watch the way Joe looks at the shadows and then down at his watch, you can see him hesitate before going to the docks. Was he hearing voices?

Most people agree that the shadows on the wall looked like a child, but I'm not sure that Ice-Pick Joe's hesitation to go to the dock was about his own son. I think the shadows looked more like that kiss flashback when he and Sofia were children. The frame and perspective are almost the same angle, as if they are being watched from below.

Either way, he is clearly making the choice to leave the past behind that brings him to his tragic and senseless death.

I would love to know what happened that took that gentle young Joe who loved to sing and turned him into the tortured stoic we meet in Goncharov, the only affection reserved for his cat, Mrs. Claws.

(I can't help but wonder if they meant for her to be an echo of Le Befana, the Italian winter witch-goddess who sometimes gets translated as Mrs. Claus? After all, his mama's last words to him when she kissed him goodbye were, "If you're a very good boy, maybe La Befana will bring you to a new home on Epiphany morning, a warm home full of food and presents." Poor Joe never finds that home.) You know, I think that was the first time I heard about Le Befana, and that was one of the inspirations that led me down the road to my own version of Mother Christmas.

Does anyone know if it's true that the Ice-Pick Joe prequel got permission to use "Hotel California" as its theme song? I wonder if we're going to get the story of his time as an unskilled laborer in the vineyards of Napa in the 60s? I was never clear about how he got to America and then back to Italy with a small fortune and hitman skills? They're saying it's like Better Call Saul meets the Sopranos meets Twin Peaks. I'm here for it, especially if they can get Cole Sprouse to play young Ice-Pick Joe.

You know how when a friend ditches their trashy partner you bond by letting rip about how shitty they were?

Yo Byron literally wrote a bros before hoes poem when a friend was having problems with his mistress and then within a month they got back together and Byron had to write another poem being all “oh my bad, she’s great. You’re still a fool but she’s great” 😂 (also managed to get a line into both poems about how much of a player he was)

We are all just disasters tumbling through history!

You Reposted in the Wrong Tobey McCallister

Inspired by Alexa TD on YouTube

Music: glue70-Casin

I love when Star Trek throws an incredibly traumatic back story at one of their characters, and then we just never mention it in any other episodes ever again. Like yeah, Kirk went through a genocide and mass famine crisis when he was a child. Well, anyways, let's talk about something else now.