“Lanval” by Marie De France has obvious themes of homosexuality present in the tale. The queer theory lense might analyze this entire tale to be one of how Lanval, a chivalrous knight, might indeed be gay, or at least bisexual; his lover, the fairest maiden of them all, could be a transgender or androgynous male…
by Emmanuel Paige “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is an epistolary short story with a plot centered on a woman who goes insane and records it in her journal. The lead character, who is an unreliable narrator is believed to suffer from hysteria by her husband who is a physician. While in the…
A tragedy by William Shakespeare Analysis by Emmanuel Paige Macbeth is a play by William Shakespeare that deals with the supernatural, that of the three strange sisters (witches) and an antihero, Macbeth, and his wife, Lady Macbeth, who succumb to hubris due to their wholehearted belief in a prophecy spoken by the witches will come…
A classic tale of terror by Edgar Allan Poe Analysis by Emmanuel Paige “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe displays a technique and style employed by a master of the macabre and weird tale. This is one of Poe’s best short stories as it is often anthologized and the subject of study in…
“Fire and Ice” is a poem by Robert Frost, an American Poet, published in 1920 which was greatly inspired by Dante’s Inferno with allusions to Hell and Armageddon. The end of the world is the theme of this poem. Fire and ice are metaphors for portents of doom and destruction. This is an apocalyptic poem…
http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/pm.aspx The short story, “Pickman’s Model,” was written in the year of 1927 and first published in the October 1927 issue of Weird Tales magazine. The short story “Pickman’s Model” by H. P. Lovecraft is a tale about a talented artist, Richard Upton Pickman, who is a painter of portraits and landscapes that draw on…
By Emmanuel Paige August 2, 2020 Superstition, according to merriam-websters.com, is defined as “1a: a belief or practice resulting from ignorance, fear of the unknown, trust in magic or chance, or a false conception of causation b: an irrational abject attitude of mind toward the supernatural, nature, or God resulting from superstition. 2: a notion…
Merriam-Websters states that they have recently added 535 new words to their www.merriam-webster.com dictionary. That is a large list and proves the English language is alive and well. I enjoy etymology, and I find myself frequently looking at entries in the Urban Dictionary with amazement. I find it fascinating how new words are just popping out of…
by Emmanuel Paige (published in Macabre Cadaver magazine 2010) Would you like to donate your body to science? Not in the traditional fashion where cadavers are donated to universities to be dissected in anatomy classes by premed students, but in a more natural scientific program that involves forensic research and the study of human decomposition.…
by Emmanuel Paige (Published in Macabre Cadaver magazine 2008) The Stepp Cemetery, located in the Morgan-Monroe State Forest just north of Bloomington, and south of Martinsville, Indiana is home to a famous legend about the grave of a baby named Lester, and his protective mother’s ghost: the “Lady in Black.” She is rumored to wear…