Time Capsule: February 8, 1910

February 8, 1910: 100 years ago today – February 8, 1910 – William D. Boyce incorporated the Boy Scouts of America. Popular legend says that Boyce first learned of the Scouting movement organized by Lord Robert Baden-Powell from an Unknown Scout that gave him directions on a foggy London street in late 1909.

Something About Gorey

Gorey is a village in the parishes of Saint Martin and Grouville on the east coast of the island of Jersey, a British Crown Dependency near the coast of Normandy, France.  Irwin Terry shared some comments about the village at Goreyana:

Review: Face "One of the Greatest Fantasy Novels of All Time"

Book review: The Face in the Frost

Time Capsule: 1820

January 1820: 190 years ago this month, the John Keats poem, “Ode on a Grecian Urn” was first published. The five stanzas that make up the well-known verse include such lines as:

Review: House "Gripping, Often Amusing, and Definitely Spine Tingling"

Book review: The House with a Clock in its Walls

Goreyana: The Mummy, The Will, and the Crypt

Notes from Goreyana about The Mummy, The Will, and the Crypt:

I own the original watercolor artwork for the cover portion of the dust jacket. This watercolor is very painterly with its stormy night sky, and I really like the use of opaque watercolor for the snow and lightning. The touch of red in Johnny's jacket plays nicely against Mr. Gorey's "mushroom colors" in the rest of the painting.

Review: Curse "Omniscient Narrator...Much Too Explanatory"

Book review: The Curse of the Blue Figurine

Still Even More About Widow's Walk Lake

Filmmaker and Bellairs-fan James Strayer passes along the teaser trailer for his film, Widow's Walk Lake.

Something About the Twelve Terrors of Christmas

Sarah Janet at the I Have Good Book blog has a few comments on John Updike's The Twelve Terrors of Christmas:

The Recipe For Disaster

Here’s some fan fiction about Johnny Dixon that really takes the cake this holiday season!  Happy reading!

Always Take the Weather Vane With You

We recently found JT wrote at LiveJournal about a specific weathervane being something of an inspiration.

Review: Mummy "Has A Jaunty Style That Keeps It From Getting Too Dark"

Book review: The Mummy, the Will, and the Crypt

A Celebration of John Bellairs

by Schuyler E. Eastin (Nov. 2, 2009)
(originally published at theeastincollection.blogspot.com)

Let's Bellairs: "Weird, wicked, dark black magic against the powers of Catholicism"

by Let's Yes (Nov. 12, 2009)

(Originally published at letsyes.blogspot.com)

Review: Wrath "Extremely Outlandish Plot, Even For This Genre"

Book review: The Wrath of the Grinning Ghost