Author: Paul Gallagher Archives: 12/2018

The sole object of a ghost story, wrote M. R. James, is to inspire “a pleasing terror in the reader”. James was an academic and…

According to his parents David Bowie was a smart kid. He was rolling paper into a typewriter and tapping keys writing gobble-de-gook lines and even…

Surgery to correct strabismus, a misalignment of the eyes. The artist Francis Bacon spent many hours poring over illustrated medical books looking at surgical procedures…