Herzog’s La Soufriere
A classic. Herzog runs to the heart of darkness and finds light there.
Review: THREATS by Amelia Gray
It is doubtful that any significant percentage of Anobium readers will respond to Amelia Gray’s name with a “duhh who?” type of response, or anything close to it. A site and project dedicated to both literature and weirdness, such as this one, will have a good amount of readers who love Amelia Gray. Should I […]
Review: Weed Seizure by The Hussy
In the cult classic, Tell Your Children (1936), better known as Reefer Madness, Ralph (played by actor Dave O’Brien) plays a central role as a man driven murderously insane by a psychotic addiction to the most dangerous drug of all time: marijuana. In one of the many climactic scenes in the film, Ralph is pulled […]
Imaginary Portrait: Supervert
Meet my internet crush. He is a stack of books. Unless my childhood diary lies I definitely knew about his work by 2002, a year after Extraterrestrial Sex Fetish came out. My notebooks from this year and throughout high school are a swirl of hearts and his words. Sadism was named after the Marquis de […]
Hoarding 2.0
In the hoarding series’ first installment, Garrett Tiedemann meditated on the behavior of collecting books and when, if ever, a collector has the right to purge. Sophie Summertown Grimes followed up with a reframing of the act as an artform. But I submit a much more widespread hoarding epidemic of the literate: the internet. The […]
