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At nothing you'll wake and be back in your bodies
Happy equinox! Of course it is in the high eighties and will thunder later this afternoon, but all the same it is autumn. The ghosts turn with the light.
In just over a week, I will be in NYC for Monstrous Birth: Tales from the Haunted Womb, the group reading at Q.E.D. to benefit Planned Parenthood. If you live in Astoria, or even if you don't, come and hear! I will be reading from a story no one's heard.
Boris Karloff had such a beautiful voice. I think it was disguised for me by years of How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1966), where I grew used to the music without thinking of it as belonging to anyone. He could speak like he was singing.
In just over a week, I will be in NYC for Monstrous Birth: Tales from the Haunted Womb, the group reading at Q.E.D. to benefit Planned Parenthood. If you live in Astoria, or even if you don't, come and hear! I will be reading from a story no one's heard.
Boris Karloff had such a beautiful voice. I think it was disguised for me by years of How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1966), where I grew used to the music without thinking of it as belonging to anyone. He could speak like he was singing.
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That is also a legitimate point.
Karloff is actually one of the actors where I don't know where I saw them first. I know I heard him first as the narrator of The Grinch, because that was a holiday staple of my family as far back as I can remember. But in terms of physical presence onscreen? I know I'd seen the 1932 Mummy by my senior year of high school, because it put me off that the 1999 Mummy wasn't it. I genuinely can't remember if my parents had shown me Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein by then. Or if I had glanced off one of his non-horror movies in the interim. I wish I had been able to imprint on him in Capra's Arsenic and Old Lace. He always seems to have been there. This makes a certain degree of pop-cultural sense, but is kind of ridiculous for purposes of criticism.
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It did showcase his hands, though.
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