The author contemplating another round of phantasmagorical excess at the House on the Rock, Spring Green, Wisconsin. Photo by Rachel...

Detail of Sludge, the Catoblepas, a wall-mounted sculpture by author, paper mache and mixed media, inspired by an illustration by David...

Statue of Gilgamesh at the University of Sydney (based on an ancient bas-relief at the Louvre) and Herbert Mason's Epic of Gilgamesh. If...

Some of the books I've been moving to and from various end tables, usually not as neat as this. It has been a week of Norse myth study...

My original article, published in the Eagle Tribune about my search for the historical Dracula, and the author, twenty years ago this...

(She really didn't want to go in the first place). Edward Poynter's 1862 "Orpheus and Eurydice" altered by the author's brilliant wife....

The Khandava forest fire, from the 10th century Cambodian temple Banteay Srei, in Angkor. As I plot the destruction of the rodents...

I want to share with you a story about an encounter I had at a urinal, but stick with me, because this is also a story about life and...