Karloff, Gods and Monsters, and the Horrors of War

You know how I like horror movies and Arthur ties it into war itself.

"The films added a mythic layer to the stories -- of course, Mary Shelley's original Frankenstein is a modern retelling of an ancient myth (remember the full title: Frankenstein or, The Modern Prometheus) -- but the impulse to tell these stories anew in that particular time arose in significant part from the transformed world that resulted from The Great War...read on"

He's also having a donation drive because his health has been so bad that he can't work. It forced him to leave blogtopia for a while.