Everyone has their favorite monster. It's a thing with humans. We are all are attracted to some dark force or evil thing in some way.
A lot of people really dig vampires...
I mean, I get it. The amount of psycho sexual activity going on with that monster...
When I was a kid some of the first novels I read were from Poe, Melville, and Dickens. My great grandfather at some point had acquired this "great works of literature" set of books. Published in the early 1900's, they were sold in a sort of...
I remember seeing a T-shirt one time with a quote attributed to Umberto Eco about the value of being surrounded by books. I don't remember it exactly. It was clearly meant to justify frequent sojourns to the local bookstore and the stack of books at the bedside table....
