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Built to Spill
Bad eggs and tall orders in McFig and McFly, A Tale of Jealousy, Revenge and Death (with a Happy Ending).
Read More »Feb 17 2012 | Comments: 0
Filed Under: Death Folklore Friends & Neighbors Role Models
Creep Silently
Consolations of winter in The Tomten and the Fox by Astrid Lindgren, Harald Wiberg, Karl-Erik Forsslund and generations of Scandinavians who would know.
Read More »Dec 19 2011 | Comments: 0
Filed Under: Folklore Foreigners Holiday Seasons
Wild Thing
Mordecai Gerstein and the one that got away.
Read More »Jan 23 2011 | Comments: 0
Filed Under: Death Folklore History Misfits & Renegades Treasures
Everything You Never Knew
The wasted potential of monsters.
Read More »Dec 19 2010 | Comments: 0
Filed Under: Executive Decisions of Our Time Folklore Movies Scary
Wait, We Just Got Here
At the edge of unreason in Michael Rosen’s Sad Book.
Read More »Aug 31 2010 | Comments: 0
Filed Under: Death Folklore Scary Truly, Madly, Deeply
Goblins in America
A foolish consistency, and the case for magical thinking.
Read More »Apr 05 2010 | Comments: 0
Filed Under: Folklore Foreigners Forests, Trees & All Things Green God Scary
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