I’ve always had a soft spot for that disreputable underbelly to the enlightenment, the gothic tale of terror. This literary form reigned supreme from the last half of the seventeenth to the first half of the eighteenth centuries and were the video nasties of their day generating similar pearl clutching moral panics and righteous outrageContinue reading “Top Five Gothic Horror Novels”
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Beam me up, Ezekiel: Erich von Däniken Returns to the Stars
Erich Von Däniken, the man who popularised the enduring ancient astronaut theory, has boarded his chariot of fire and returned to the stars. He’s left behind him over 60 million books about ancient aliens building pyramids and mating with us monkeys to create the human race. A plethora of books and popular archaeology (or ‘starchaeology’,Continue reading “Beam me up, Ezekiel: Erich von Däniken Returns to the Stars”
