Stories, poems and an essay by the author of "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings." For contents, see Author Catalog.
Presents a tale of a precarious friendship between an illegal Nigerian refugee and a recent widow from suburban London, a story told from the alternating and disparate perspectives of both women.
Skunk Lane Forhension - a man of pure evil who bears a striking resemblance to Lee Harvey Oswald and has an uncanny knack for accurately diagnosing the physical ailments of...
-H H ATT 0 ABOVE Still from ' Ball of Fire ' ( 1941 ) Sugarpuss O'Shea ( Barbara Stanwyck , sitting ) helps out Bertram Potts ( Gary Cooper ) , professor of linguistics , in his pursuit of her slang words .
Escape from Billy's Bar-B-Que
"Whereas, We, the citizens of San Francisco ... do most heartily approve of the project about to be inaugurated for the establishment of A Free Library in this City, and...
In the "B" western of the 1930s and 1940s, the character's physical movements often revealed whether he was the hero or the villain. Dialogue was held to a minimum; the...
In the century that has passed since Billy the Kid rode the range in southern New Mexico, this adolescent killer has never ceased to fascinate American writers and, later, filmmakers....
Who is the person responsible for the millions of nightmares brought on by The Exorcist, To Live and Die in L.A., Cruising and Boys in the Band? Friedkin's films conjure...
Einar Lauritzen and Gunar Lundquist published the definitive American Film Index, 1908-1915, and its companion volume for the years 1916 through 1920. The current work indexes Lauritzen and Lundquists works...