![]() ![]() ![]() The story of women in horror is a simple one simply told: Once upon a time, women in the horror genre, especially film, were inferior and degraded. Dominatrix Divas: MidMar Readers Pick Their Faves Read moreġ50 Years of Women and Horror: She Has Always Lived in the Castle.Deadly Delights-Movies Featuring Our Favorite Queens of Evil.Attack of the Movie Poster Pin-Up Girls.Women to Die for-1960s Onward: Midmar Readers Have Their Say.Scream and Scream Again! Horror's Honor List of Scream Queens.Harlots, Hedonists and Heroines: The Women of Hammer Films.Attack of the Alien Women from Outer Space!.Empowered Women in the Val Lewton Canon.Women Take a Bite Out of Classic Horror: Dracula's Daughter and Mark of the Vampire.He Done Her Wrong: The Fate of Women in Golden Age Horrors.150 Years of Women and Horror: She Has Always Lived in the Castle.Bitches, Bimbos and Virgins is the history of women in the horror cinema, profiling their evolution from coffee maker to scientist, from seductress and victim to kick-ass heroine, and finally detailing their emergence as well-drawn characters who play important roles in horror movie history-past, present and future. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Top of the Order: 25 Writers Pick Their Favorite Baseball Player of All Time,įatsis can be heard on 's weekly sports podcast "Hang Up and Listen. Wild and Outside: How a Renegade Minor League Revived the Spirit of Baseball in America's Heartland. Word Freak will be published in the summer of 2011.Ī Few Seconds of Panic: A Sportswriter Plays in the NFL, the story of his Plimptonian journey as a training-camp placekicker for the Denver Broncos and life in the modern NFL, and A former Wall Street Journal reporter and NPR regular, Stefan Fatsis recounts his remarkable rise through the ranks of elite Scrabble players while. Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble Players,chronicled the subculture of the game and his own rise from novice to expert-level player. Follow Stefan Fatsis and explore their bibliography from s Stefan Fatsis Author Page. The author of three books, Fatsis' national bestseller, In Word Freak, Stefan Fatsis introduces readers to those few. Since then he has been a familiar weekly voice on the games themselves and their financial, legal and social implications. But for every group of living-room players there is someone who is at one with the board. ![]() The book is subtitled Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive SCRABBLE Players. ![]() Stefan Fatsis began talking about "sports and the business of sports" with the hosts ofĪll Things Considered in 1998. Word Freak is a non-fiction narrative by Stefan Fatsis published in 2001 ( ISBN 4-1 ). ![]() ![]() The languages we would now consider “Lithuanian,” “Belarusan,” and “Ukrainian” were basically languages of the peasants and the lower classes that were disenfranchised and denied what today is considered the basic rights of citizenship. He goes back to the Lublin Union of 1569 that incorporated parts of present-day Lithuania, Poland, Ukraine, and Belarus into the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and shows how the elite gentry classes of Poland and Lithuania were generally considered to be assimilated into the Polish language and high culture. Snyder shows that in the early modern era, when the names and boundaries of these countries first came into public consciousness, these divisions were far from clear or natural. ![]() Snyder puts to doubt the commonsense assumption that modern nation-states and clear-cut ethnic groups exist “naturally.” Most people would assume that Poles live in Poland, Lithuanians live in Lithuania, and so on. ![]() This volume tracks the development of national identity in the four modern states now known as Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, and Belarus. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003. The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569-1999 Abby Drweckiīy Timothy Snyder. ![]() The Reconstruction of Nations: SR, January 2008 This Issue ![]() ![]() Let me start by saying I know I’m in a minority with this book review. ![]() Includes “Oliver Bloom” by Ryan Johnson, a short story featuring characters from Pretty Little Dead Girls. Yardley’s Pretty Little Dead Girls: A Novel of Murder and Whimsy is a dark, lovely fairy tale with lyrical language and a high body count, and features a cover by Hugo award-winner Galen Dara. ![]() After arriving in Seattle, Bryony befriends a tortured musician, a market fish-thrower, and a starry-eyed hero who is secretly a serial killer bent on fulfilling Bryony’s dark destiny. In order to survive, she must run as far and as fast as she can. “Run, Star Girl.” Bryony Adams is destined to be murdered, but fortunately Fate has terrible marksmanship. ![]() ![]() ![]() Various locals grow suspicious after Old Whateley buys more and more cattle, yet the number of his herd never increases and the cattle in his field become mysteriously afflicted with severe open wounds. All the while his grandfather, a sorcerer called only Old Whateley, indoctrinates him into certain dark rituals and the study of witchcraft. Locals shun him and his family, and animals fear and despise him due to his repellent appearance and an unnatural, inhuman odor emanating from his body. Strange events surround Wilbur's birth and precocious development he matures at an abnormal rate, reaching manhood within a decade. In the desolate, decrepit Massachusetts village of Dunwich, Wilbur Whateley is the hideous son of Lavinia Whateley, a deformed and unstable albino, and an unknown father. It is considered one of the core stories of the Cthulhu Mythos. ![]() It takes place in Dunwich, a fictional town in Massachusetts. Written in 1928, it was first published in the April 1929 issue of Weird Tales (pp. 481–508). " The Dunwich Horror" is a horror novella by American writer H. ![]() The issue of Weird Tales in which "The Dunwich Horror" was first published. ![]() |