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Strange, but not weird
On Joseph Conrad’s 'The Shadow Line' (1917)
Dec 30, 2025 • Alexandyr Kent
Purpose is a dirty word
From Kafka and Bartleby to Deep, Dark Russia
May 15, 2025 • Alexandyr Kent
Actually, it isn’t what it is
On Philip K. Dick’s Time Out of Joint (1959) and Bombing the GRE
Jan 5, 2025 • Alexandyr Kent
Calls of the void
Why Clark Ashton Smith and Algernon Blackwood would make poor camping buddies
Nov 8, 2024 • Alexandyr Kent
Can a screen adaptation be too good? Yes, he sighs.
On 'Ripley,' Patricia Highsmith, Disney, and how to properly scare Ichabod Crane
Oct 14, 2024 • Alexandyr Kent
Beware the confident stranger
First-class claptrap from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Aug 17, 2024 • Alexandyr Kent
Blue pill, or red? It’s both.
On doubles, Joseph Conrad, not-so ‘Strangers on a Train,’ and ‘The Matrix’
Jun 24, 2024 • Alexandyr Kent
‘Everything we look at but do not see’
Elusive meaning, a puppeteer, and Maupassant’s ‘The Horla’
May 19, 2024 • Alexandyr Kent
Alexandyr the Terrible
Alexandyr the Terrible
Examining short stories that go bump in the brain: the strange, the uncanny, and the weird. Is the truth really out there or just buried inside?
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