James Sullivan
Stories (2/0)
The Mad Trist
Thunder rattled the thin glass window panes as the blood warm rain water washed over the house and the night outside became a blue fog. There were many nights like this over the summer from the earliest time she could remember - drifting to sleep as she listened to the rain and felt the warm mist it left behind. It was usually on nights like these that Uncle Herman told the story of the Shoke Vampire - Mad Man Shoedsack, a stranger who once disappeared on a night like this one a quarter century ago, almost as though he floated away on the same rainy mist and was never heard from again.
By James Sullivan2 years ago in Fiction
Swords and Celluloid
Wolfgang Petersen, like the Ancient Greek tragedians before him, was inspired by the events of The Iliad and elements of the Trojan War cycle in order to create his epic film, rather than doing an adaptation of the work. Euripides used the scene in which Andromache mourns her slain husband when he wrote Trojan Women, an antiwar drama that used the Trojan War as a backdrop to expose his audience to the horrors of the Peloponnesian War, and would later be made into a film during the height of the Vietnam War.
By James Sullivan5 years ago in Geeks