In at least two of Nalo Hopkinson's short stories that I've read, the main characters are women with an interest in ... unusual creatures. Namely, "Can't Beat 'Em" (Marisella keeps a 'glup', a sort of sink drain monster, so that she can consume it to become immortal) and "A Raggy Dog, a Shaggy Do...

I actually find this concept very interesting, where demons are not as bad as they are portrayed but angels are really evil. Still, I have only found almost none audiovisual material about this topic. ¿Are there any books worth reading about this topic?

Nalo Hopkinson's novel Midnight Robber contains a story entitled "Tan-Tan and Dry Bone". It is one of the many elements from Caribbean culture that Hopkinson draws on in the novel. Hopkinson's novel is not the only book that draws on this specific element from Caribbean culture; see for example A...

I recently learned that Thomas Hardy's novel Far From the Madding Crowd was first published anonymously in Cornhill Magazine. As far as I know, publishing novels as monthly serials was reasonably common in those days (see Dickens, for example), but why wouldn't he put his name on it? Unlike Maria...

In several Cthulhu Mythos stories, incantations are made that seemingly reference Hebrew terms for the Abrahamic God. For example, Per Adonai Eloim, Adonai Jehova Adonai Sabaoth... from The Case of Charles Dexter Ward by H. P. Lovecraft Here, we have apparent references to: אדני אלה...