Wake up | Bùi Kim-Anh

A poem in Vietnamese by Bùi Kim-AnhTranslation by Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm O flower buds awake through the nightthe morning is coldwake up so the flowers can bloomO the verse awake through the nightstill roaming this morningrefuse to come homewake up now, because soon the streets will be full of people come noon DẬY ĐI […]

UNIQUE HALLOWEEN NOVEL: ISABELLA OF EGYPT (1812)

Halloween Month rolls along. Here’s a tale set in Europe despite the title and involving a Mandragore, a She-Golem, a Barenhauter and Gypsy mysticism.  Isabella of Egypt is a very obscure 1812 Gothic Horror novella by Ludwig Achim Von Arnim. Under the more evocative title Alraune and the Golem it was to be filmed as a […]