✶⋆ English Version “This is Halloween, this is Halloween Pumpkins scream in the dead of night This is Halloween, everybody make a scene Trick or treat ’til the neighbors gonna die of fright It’s our town, everybody scream In this town of Halloween”. Spooky Season is here! Some of you might be enjoying the chill Autumn…
Tag: Literature
The Call of the Spiders: A Feminist Reading of J. R. R. Tolkien’s Ungoliant and Shelob
At Oxonmoot 2020, I gave a talk entitled “The Call of the Spiders: A Feminist Reading of J. R. R. Tolkien’s Ungoliant and Shelob”. It aimed at analysing two of the most less considered female characters in Tolkien’s works and their possible reading from a feminist perspective. This was the abstract of my talk: “When…
Bibliographics / Librografías
July is almost over, but not yet. On Instagram, I have been sharing some infographics I have made with information about different authors and their respective work. This type of post had the main aim to generate more discussion over literature. I’m very glad by the welcoming results and interactions that these graphics have generated…
Celebrating World Art Day 2021 With Literature and Art
Did you know that today, April 15th, is World Art Day? I am writing this post to celebrate this special day. Art can be present in our daily lives in different forms: in what we look at, how we dress, in the decorative objects that might be part of our house. Art is also straightly…
“The Last Man”: Apocalyptic Late XXI Century – A Commentary
Happy 2021! This is the first blog post of the year, we could not have left January without an entry after reading a very interesting novel, don’t you think? Covid is still lurking out there but we are all taking care. And is not as hopeless as some famous authors had imagined the XX century…
The Monk (Matthew Lewis), Art and Women: The Scandalous Insight
I read The Monk, finally! I am so happy to say that because it has been a book that had been on my to be read list for so long. I first heard about it when I was fifteen years old and I accidentally read spoilers of how it ends, about the characters and also…
Oxonmoot 2020: A Review and a Fellowship
Being a Tolkien fan for so long, and someone who has been studying his works, one of my desires was to participate in one of the most important Tolkien fandom (and scholars) events created and organized by the Tolkien Society based in the UK. As I live far away, in Chile, and travelling is not…
Understanding Monsters: How Monstrosity is Constructed
Today, 30th of August in 1797 Mary Shelley (Mary Godwin Wollstonecraft) was born. She gave us one of the most beautiful and important books ever written: Frankenstein. This month Generally Gothic hosted a discussion on Monstrosity (if you have not heard about her website please visit and see by yourself how interesting, well researched and…
The Uncanny as a Source of Horror in “The Vampyre”
In previous posts, we have been revising the concepts of horror and terror, this time we are going to review those concepts in a literary text. My suggestion was to read The Vampyre, a tale written by John William Polidori. ✶ John Polidori John Polidori was Lord Byron’s doctor. Polidori started to write The Vampyre…
The Lord of The Rings 66th Aniversary: 10 Things you might have not known about J.R.R. Tolkien’s novel
Today 29 June in 1954 the first volume of The Lord of the Rings was published. Happy 66th book anniversary to such an amazing novel! To celebrate, I have written this post, but I invite you to join the biggest celebration regarding J. R. R. Tolkien’s works, which takes place in September this year. To…
