Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead
Is there anything more Halloween than a good gothic narrative? Well, maybe, but gothic is definitely a staple at our house.
Plague Books
Books about Plague. Particularly relevant during the 2020 pandemic.
Termush
Termush centres around a seaside resort that after an unnamed disaster (but all signs seem to point to a nuclear war followed by a plague or a plague followed by nuclear war), which now houses those individuals that could pay for shelter and medical care.
A Journal of the Plague Year
The difficulty of the year has me turning to books more than ever as a soothing distraction and in my search for them I can’t help but notice the decided uptick in plague literature. Most of the books I have seen mentioned I’ve read before all of this began — but this one was sitting in my to-read stacks. This is a review of Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of a Plague Year.
The Manuscript Found in Saragossa
There are some problems that only happen with antiquarian books. Namely, that sometimes you can collect a single work in bits and pieces. This is a review of Jan Potocki’s The Manuscript Found in Saragossa.