A GLIMPSE OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN
In 1919, at age 19, Hitchcock began publishing short stories in the Henley Telegraph. "Gas" was his first effort. This video uses clips from a half dozen of his early films (and one by E. A. Dupont) to bring his short story to life, neatly demonstrating how ...

Publicly, Hitch joked about his rotund figure, even integrating it into his personal brand. But privately, his weight was a source of lifelong distress. He once expressed these feelings to a biographer, and this film brings his words to life, contrasting them with rarely-seen Hitchcock family hom...

HITCH'S ESSAY BROUGHT TO LIFE
In a memoir from 1960, Hitch recalled the moment when, as a young child alone in the dark, he first felt terror. Later, he learned how to turn dread into delight while devouring the dark stories of Edgar Allan Poe. It's such a moving piece—and the gravitational cente...

Explore the multiverse of Hitchcock's imagination where love, sacrifice and the unknown await in every dimension. Combining special effects with impeccably researched analysis, Joel Gunz follows one seemingly recurring character through the director's film and television worlds to discover that a...

Spend a quiet hour looking at just about any good work of art and, like Nietzche’s abyss, it will look back at you. That’s the position held by Phil Ford and J. F. Martel, hosts of the Weird Studies podcast. Images of the Buddha offer sublime proof of the concept: it’s said that if you look upon ...

Around 480 B.C.E., the pre-Socratic philosopher Parmenides wrote a poem that takes readers along on his dream-journey into the underworld. This work can cast its spell on anyone in the Western world today, for, as classicist Peter Kingsley writes, it "is the story of ourselves." Allow these openi...