“There are also stories which point back clearly to a time when there was human sacrifice. But what is astonishing is not that bits of savage belief were left here and there. The strange thing is that they are so few.”
-Edith Hamilton, Mythology.
Author: blablablaandgabbler
[BLA and GB GABBLER are two halves of the pen name behind the CIRCO DEL HERRERO series. Vol. 2, THE PRE-PROGRAMMING out now!]
On Apollo:
EPIC CATALOG: Mad Scientists Experimenting on Their Daughters
Stories which show a mad scientist father trying out his hypotheses on his little girl. …Because what guinea pig is better than your own spawn?
“Scientist” and “daughter” and “father” as definition is a bit loose here.
- Jessica Hide in Utopia, TV show.
- Carolyn in The Library at Mount Char, book.
- Rachel in Orphan Black, TV show.
- Christiane in Eyes Without a Face, film.
- Odissa in The Automation, book.
- Nebula in Guardians of the Galaxy, film.
- Aissa in The Island of Doctor Moreau, film.
- Sally in The Nightmare Before Christmas, film.
- …
Any others that should be on this list?
We missed our #TBT post, but here’s what we should have posted:
That time Eartha Kitt had the funniest Christmas song of all time and would later die on Christmas day. 1953.
BookTuber Tuesday – Crying of Lot 49 lecture
Recommend a BookTuber video in the comments and it could make our Tuesday post!
[“BLA and GB Gabbler” (really just a pen name – singular) are the Editor and Narrator behind THE AUTOMATION, vol. 1 of the Circo del Herrero series. They are on facebook, twitter, tumblr, goodreads, and Vulcan’s shit list.]
