Public Domain Day 2026!
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Film Review: WAKE UP DEAD MAN (2025)
The gentleman sleuth returns to bless our screens.
Short Story: "In the Garden of Death"
Desperate times call for dangerous magic.
Short Story: "White Saffron"
Beauty requires sacrifice.
Today on Project Gutenberg: "Last Night Out"
The warzone is thousands of light years away. Try not to get murdered before you're shipped off.
Short Story: "The Unknown Occupant"
Something waits inside...
Short Story: "The Clown Bicycle Disaster of 1827"
Oh, the clownity!
Short Story: "Megafauna"
Plus, a few updates on future blog posts.
Book of the Month: THE ODYSSEY by Homer, translated by Emily Wilson
Tell me about a complicated man.
Today on Project Gutenberg: "The Booklover and His Books"
There's art on your shelves.
Book of the Month: FOUR LOST CITIES by Annalee Newitz
Let's dig up some history, shall we?
Book of the Month: WE'LL PRESCRIBE YOU A CAT by Syou Ishida, translated by E. Madison Shimoda
Side effects may include laughter, tears and kitty snuggles.
Project Gutenberg
Today on Project Gutenberg: "The Dangerous Scarecrow"
Some scarecrows want brains. This one wants a knife.
Book of the Month
Book of the Month: THE MINISTRY OF UNGENTLEMANLY WARFARE by Damien Lewis
In the world's darkest hour, they raised bloody mayhem—and wrote themselves into history.
Poetry
Poetry: "A Haircut"
The last Saturday of the year.
Book of the Month
Book of the Month: THE ESSENTIAL RUMI by Jalaluddin Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks
The words of a mystic echoing across the centuries.
Project Gutenberg
Today on Project Gutenberg: "The Iliad"
Sing, o goddess, the rage of Achilles...
Poetry
Poetry: A Pocketful of One-Liners!
The poet's smallest building block.
Book of the Month
Book of the Month: THE BUFFALO HUNTER HUNTER by Stephen Graham Jones
Ready for the next great vampire novel?
Fiction
Short Story: "Through a Forest Dark and Dead"
In which a lone traveler through the Transylvanian woods finds that Castle Dracula is not easily escaped.
Book of the Month
Book of the Month: THE WEIRD TALES OF TANITH LEE by Tanith Lee
Worlds of wonder await.
Poetry
Poetry: "We'll Be OK"
Words of hope in troubled times.
Current Events
Book of the Month: ON TYRANNY by Timothy Snyder
"History gives us the company of those who have done and suffered more than we have."
Project Gutenberg
Today on Project Gutenberg: "Through by Daylight"
All aboard for Melodrama Station!