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THIS MONTH The Horrible Dr. Hichcock and The Perfume of the Lady in Black
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Reading Laura Mauro’s “Japanese Toilet Ghosts” [FT459:30-35], reminded me of a less well known fear in the Western world, which –according to the modern rabbinical Internet resource site TheTorah.com
WEDNESDAY 10 DECEMBER
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Opera is dead. And has been for quite a long time. I don’t care what anybody says about Poulenc and Prokofiev, I cannot be persuaded that any listenable music theatre has been written since Puccini. (
The greatest vampire of all finds true romance in Luc Besson’s Dracula