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Cover art by Edward Gorey, 1964.<\/em><\/p>\n \u2022 Plenty of Halloween fallout as usual this week, but then Halloween here is a state of mind rather than a single day’s celebration. Leading off with an article by Smoky Man for Italian readers (and for auto-translators) at (Quasi)<\/a>, the first in what will be a series of reviews of each section of the Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic<\/em>. I’ve been helping with this, answering questions about the book’s production. I may post my answers here at a later date but for the moment I’m happy to keep them exclusive. In other Moon and Serpent news, the Bumper Book<\/em> was reviewed by Sam Thielman in the New York Times<\/em><\/a> last weekend, and also subjected to a deeper exploration by Joe McCullough for The Comics Journal<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 Michael Atkinson<\/a> explores the psychosocial dread at the heart of Japanese horror. One of the films I watched for Halloween was Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s brilliantly unnerving Pulse<\/em>, a film which turns up again in Anne Billson<\/a>\u2019s evolution of horror in ten revolutionary films.<\/p>\n \u2022 Among the new titles at Standard Ebooks, the home of free, high-quality, public-domain texts: Short Fiction<\/em><\/a> by Frank Belknap Long, a collection of science fiction and horror stories which opens with Long’s contribution to the Cthulhu Mythos, The Hounds of Tindalos<\/em>.<\/p>\n Paracelsus\u2019 quasi-scientific, quasi-magical worldview would profoundly influence scientists for centuries to follow. As historian Violet Moller puts it in her new book Inside the Stargazer\u2019s Palace<\/em>, \u201cTo our rational, orderly, 21st-century minds the 16th-century map of knowledge appears messy, a paradoxical and confusing place where magic was studied alongside geometry, people searched obsessively for the philosopher\u2019s stone and astrology was fundamental to many areas of life.\u201d But in this mixed-up cauldron of magic and nature, real science was forged.<\/p>\n Dale Markowitz<\/a> on how the occult gave birth to science<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n \u2022 New music: Of Nature & Electricity<\/em><\/a> by Teleplasmiste, and Tristitiam Et Metus Tradam Portare Ventis<\/em><\/a> by Philippe Blache (Day Before Us).<\/p>\n \u2022 Adam Scovell<\/a> dares to look inside Dario Argento\u2019s dungeon-like museum of horror memorabilia, Profondo Rosso.<\/p>\n \u2022 At Little White Lies: Tyler Thier<\/a> on Stan Brakhage\u2019s autopsy film, The Act of Seeing With One’s Own Eyes<\/em>.<\/p>\n \u2022 At Spoon & Tamago: Keisuke Oka\u2019s Arimaston Building in Tokyo, made entirely by hand<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 At Bandcamp: George Grella<\/a> on the pioneers of musique concr\u00e8te.<\/p>\n \u2022 At Unquiet Things: Marci Washington\u2019s midnight revelations<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 Typo 8: The International Journal of Prototypes<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 RIP Teri Garr<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 Pulse<\/em><\/a> (1972) by Agitation Free | Pulse State<\/em><\/a> (1991) by The Future Sound Of London | Pulse Detected<\/em><\/a> (2021) by The Grid\/Fripp<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"