Paranormal Phenomena

Aaron Perez 10/2/2026 Image Credit: Universal Pictures      Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818) remains one of literature’s most enduring and unsettling creations. Written when Shelley was just 18, during a stormy summer gathering with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, the novel invented modern science fiction while probing deep questions about ambition, responsibility, isolation, and what it means to be human.      The story unfolds through nested narratives. Arctic explorer Robert Walton rescues a dying Victor Frankenstein, who recounts his tale. A brilliant young scientist from Geneva, Victor becomes obsessed with discovering the secret of life. Working in isolation at the University of Ingolstadt, he assembles a creature from body parts and animates it. Horrified by its appearance, he abandons his creation. The intelligent, sensitive Creature, rejected by humanity, learns language and suffers profound loneliness. His pleas...

Aaron Perez 10/1/2026 Image Credit: Public Domain      There is a particular kind of nightmare that refuses to stay buried. It rises from the Carpathian darkness, sails across black waters on a plague ship, and slips into the quiet bedrooms of provincial towns. Its name is Nosferatu, and for more than a century it has stalked the history of cinema.      F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (1922) remains one of the purest expressions of cinematic dread ever committed to film. Werner Herzog’s Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) answered it with a melancholy, almost philosophical variation. Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu (2024) returned to the source with feverish intensity, eroticism, and a near-religious devotion to atmosphere. Together they form a strange, unbroken lineage—three films that are both remakes and original acts of possession. The Unauthorized Masterpiece: 1922      In the aftermath of the First World War and the Spanish flu p...