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66Up There, With Joris-Karl Huysmans
From the black magic and the occult horror of "Là-bas" (translated as "Down There" or "The Damned"), for the French "decadent" writer Joris-Karl Huysmans arose a vision of a new field of research: the...
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75Joris-Karl Huysmans and the Essence of Decadence
The French writer Joris-Karl Huysmans started his career as a naturalist, but with "A Rebours" ("Against Nature") he wrote "the bible of decadence" and with "Down There" a history of satanism, facts turned...
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78The Magdalene Line of Kathleen McGowan
I've just spent three days in Belgium with Kathleen McGowan, author of "The Expected One" and "The Book of Love". So don't think this is a literary review or something. It's always tricky to write a review...
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74The Story of the Grail by Chretien de Troyes
Chrétien de Troyes was a French poet who was the first to write about the Grail, but what is the Grail... and where can the Grail be? Some believe the Grail is the Holy Blood of Christ, or his royal bloodline... and this Holy Blood was brought to Bruges, by the Templars.
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71Mysteries of the Mystic Lamb
The famous Ghent Altarpiece or the Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, completed in 1432 by Flemish Primitive Jan Van Eyck, is surrounded by many mysteries concerning the Holy Blood & the Holy Grail... They are the reasons why a panel got stolen, the thiefs were killed and the Nazi's got interested in the masterpiece...
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67Bruce Springsteen: Greatest Live Clips and Quotes
I'm a Bruce Springsteen fan and this is my very personal Top Ten of Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band Live Clips, together with some quotes of "The Boss" aka "The Jersey Devil"...
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66A Poet of the Great War: Wilfred Owen
Wilfred Edward Salter Owen (1893-1918) was an English poet and soldier. He is regarded by many as the leading poet of "the Great War". His work is shocking and realistic with its focus upon the horrors of...
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78Treasure of the Cursed Superstition Mountains
A certain "Norman" told author R.G. Babcock the story of an old Blackfoot Indian about a large horseshoe shaped outcropping of sandstone, called the Painted Rock, where the cursed Aztec Treasure could be hidden...
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68In Flanders Fields
The last entry of the First World War poetry series "Shell Shocked Isabel Shrapnel" is a Special about the most famous poem from the First World War: In Flanders Fields, by John McCrae.
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67Essential Monsters and Freaks Show
... is an Oakland, California based company, a forerunner of the steampunk fashion revolution. Essential Monsters makes t-shirts, hoodies, bags, pin sets, wallets and other one-of-a-kind goodies. Some items...
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