After reading The Moon Pool, I decided to read Bulwer-Lytton's The Coming Race, which served as partial inspiration for The Moon Pool. Narrator travels underground, finds an advanced society. The book is half the length of The Moon Pool, but took a lot longer to read; it's tough slogging, perhaps because of the legendary Bulwer-Lytton writing style ( Read more... )

I just finished reading The Moon Pool (1919) by A. Merritt. People say that this influence Lovecraft and the TV series "Lost", and they are right. I found out also that it influenced The Mole People (1956). I'll explain more in a somewhat spoilery fashion behind a cut.

( The Secrets of the Moon Pool )

I tend to watch a lot of fantasy/sci-fi/horror on TV, but a lot of stuff I used to watch is now either finished or only available on channels I no longer get. So I've been scraping around for new TV series that will fit into my preferred niche -- and the pickings are slim.

Some of them just seem to be scheduled wrong, so I rarely watch them. Terra ( Read more... )

I finally finished watching Camelot. Turner Classic Movies was running a bunch of Arthurian movies, which is one of my favorite genres, and I recorded several I've never seen, including Camelot, which I figured was famous enough that I should watch it.

I should have learned from my experience with Singing in the Rain a couple weeks ago, which I ( Read more... )

I missed Rabbithole Day. OK, not exactly, since I knew it was yesterday, and was planning on posting something, but I was busy all day. But! I did go to see "Pan's Labyrinth", which as it turns out is very appropriate for Rabbithole Day, and not just because it's a fantasy, but because it's a particular kind of fantasy: a child escapes the real ( Read more... )

I finished the very basic outline of the five-book series this morning, so I treated myself to watching that movie about that lion and those kids with the primitive TARDIS. My observation: ( behind a cut because it's semi-spoilerish )

I only got about four hours sleep last night, but I couldn't sleep any longer, because my brain was on fire. not with fever or anything like that, but with ideas. see, back on my H-mas wish list, I suggested the perfect gift for the_misha would be a series of children's books with all the style and magic of The Chronicles of Narnia, but without the ( Read more... )