"mysteries which men can only guess at"

Happy birthday wishes go out to homespunheart and jagash with hopes that your day is wonderful and your upcoming year is the best ever!


And I have a few links to share...

* The Hog's Head has an introduction to/prep for/commentary on the upcoming film version of Watchmen: Watchmen: Getting Started.

* Fear.net has a five-part birthday tribute to Edgar Allan Poe by Darrell Schweitzer:
- "Part 1: Happy Birthday, Edgar Allan Poe"
- "Part 2: Poe Goes to the Movies"
- "Part 3: Poe's Madmen"
- "Part 4: Poe and Lovecraft"
- "Part 5: Was Poe a Goth?"

* Librivox.org has some new (and, as always, free) unabridged readings of works available that may be of special interest to genre readers:
- The Jewel of the Seven Stars by Bram Stoker
- Short Science Fiction Collection Vol. 11 by various authors
- Folk Tales from Many Lands by Lilian Gask
- The Republic by Plato

* And, last but not least, from Australia: a new look at Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince:

"There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part."
- Bram Stoker, Dracula