Interpretation of the Romantic-Decadent Medusa-Harlot

August 08, 2022 by Matthew Pungitore

Possible spoilers ahead for Robert E. Howard’s "A Witch Shall Be Born," The Happy Prince (2018), Salomé (2013), Conan the Barbarian (1982), the works of Clark Ashton Smith, Wilde’s Salome, and more.

Clark Ashton Smith; or, the Devotee of Gothic Decadence (Part Two)

May 05, 2021 by Matthew Pungitore

In most of Smith’s writings, there is a brooding, a rapturous fixation on doom, destruction, decay, and destroyed things; there is also a relationship between the beautiful and the dead or doomed.