Michael Simmons retweeted
THE BLACK VAMPYRE 1819. The first black #vampire, the first vampire story by an American writer & the first vampire anti-slavery narrative. This remarkable text is discussed in our @OGOMProject book on Polidori: the Romantic Vampire and its Progeny @GothicMUP
Michael Simmons retweeted
Two of the last four movies I've seen in the theater were set in 1989. Another was set in 1999. Another took place 10,000 years after the Butlerian Jihad. What I'm saying here is: Screenwriters *really* don't like it when characters have access to cellphones.
Michael Simmons retweeted
Lux Interior's Christmas Mixtape #HolidayTunes youtube.com/playlist?list=PL…
Photo: Kristian Hoffman
Michael Simmons retweeted
Two highly sought-after collections coming very soon in affordable new editions: Michael Shea's POLYPHEMUS (1987), feat. "The Autopsy" & new intro by @LairdBarron and Manly Wade Wellman's complete JOHN THE BALLADEER tales, intro by Karl Edward Wagner. Preorder now on our site!
Michael Simmons retweeted
Musicology people, can anyone point me to someone working on 16th century German lute music and/or folk music? I have a very niche question that my English guys have been unable to help me with!
Michael Simmons retweeted
Can't believe the beggining of Emily Wilson's translation of The Odyssey:
“Yass Queen, tw: rage, sing the rage of Pelias’ son Achilles (he/him),
Problematic, how it gave the People of Greekdom trauma
And cancelled many heroes who had ableist tweets"
Michael Simmons retweeted
Fun fact: There are two original cast recordings of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown.
MGM Records first released an "actual on-stage, in performance recording" which was withdrawn and replaced by a studio-recorded album.
I thought the guitar world didn’t need more than one King in Yellow-themed effects pedal, but I was wrong. – at East Palo Alto, CA
Michael Simmons retweeted
Nothing Compares 2 U. Heart broken hearing the news of the passing of Sinéad O’Connor, such an inspiration
Michael Simmons retweeted
We were truly ahead of the times. #DaddarioX #X
Michael Simmons retweeted
All 19 of our reissue albums from the 1960's LP Avant-Garde series are now available digitally. Released also for the first time on CD, the box set is available for pre-order and will be released on August 18 👉 dgt.link/avant-garde

































