Art for the End Times: The Spooky Season Special
The Real News Podcast
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Russian Literature Wasn't Gloomy Enough, Right?
There are some really great usages of like the supernatural in Russian literature, but it's rarely ever scary. The one that takes the cake is Mikhail Bugakov's master and Margarita. There's a whole genre of literature in the later half of the 19th century called invasion literature. It plays upon these fears that England has always been this unimpregnable fortress of empire building.
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