Fairies in Space August 7, 2013
Author: Beach Combing | in : Actualite, Contemporary
After some rather nauseating episodes in Victorian fairy stories fairies became scary again in the late nineteenth century with the writing of men like ‘Fiona MacLeod’ (William Sharp) and, of course, Arthur Machen. Scary fairies were a late Victorian and Edwardian topos and we’ve looked before at the way the tradition developed and some examples. […]
On First Looking Into Lucas’ Star Wars October 10, 2012
Author: Beach Combing | in : Actualite
Most father’s have a tic list of things that they long to do with their children: riding on bikes, playing Risk, collecting horse chestnuts… And Beach is pleased to say that he and his four-year-old daughter have just achieved the most important of them all: watching Star Wars together while eating caramelized popcorn. Star Wars has […]
