Stewart Moore: Stories

Tag: mythology

  • Necronomicon Ex Mortis

    Ray Bradbury was once asked what his favorite topics were. He immediately said, “Dinosaurs!” A moment later, “Egypt! Mummies!” When a seven-year-old version of me read this, he had to agree that Bradbury had put his finger on one and two. Today, my list would probably be more complicated, but these would still be top…

  • Pandora’s Boxes

    This has bothered me practically my whole life, since I first read the D’Aulaires’ Greek Myths. Pandora is given a box, right? And in it is every evil in the world, right? And she opens the box and releases every evil, right? Except she slams the lid down right at the end, so that Hope…