Widower's Tango

"Without preferences a critic would be a monster." - Vernon Young(1) As taste deteriorates, lists proliferate. The BBC,...

The Irish writer of horror fiction, J. T. Sheridan LeFanu (1814-1873), was much admired by M. R. James, author of "A Warning To th...

Before proving himself a master of the horror film genre with Rosemary's Baby in 1968, Roman Polański made the horror spoof Dance of...

The problem I have with scary movies is that, with notable exceptions, they no longer scare me. I was plenty scared by them when I was a ...

This week I was reading a conversation in Forbes with Rupert Everett about Oscar Wilde. Everett has just directed and stars in The Hap...

When I was a boy, I was predisposed to like silent films. I lived in a household where the slightest disturbance could set my mother off i...

Reading from an actual book on a September Saturday for no other reason than that my electric co-op decided to be uncooperative and depri...