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The rooms and corridors, with dingy carpeting and lit by flickering fluorescent lights, seem to stretch on forever: Here’s a peep at the murky, pop-cultural origins of an Internet-era nightmare.

A charmingly creepy period piece, the BBC’s half-hour, 1975 adaptation of the classic M.R. James ghost story “The Ash Tree” opens with a long pastoral sequence — a figure on horseback, riding through bucolic English countryside. The rider is one Sir Richard, a young lordling come to take up his residence in the family estate — a…

There’s so much ’80s in here — and it’s Sonnet No. 20, BTW. This little cluster of pop-cultural flotsam and jetsam is exactly what the Internet exists for …

James Graham Ballard, one of the most singular and bracing authors of science and speculative fiction writing in English, is the subject of a very British half-hour interview via the old BBC talk show Face to Face. He discusses his childhood in Shanghai, the influence of technology in magnifying the violence and sexualism of human…

The great author reads from one of her many masterpieces. “Lavinia” is a gorgeous, vivid, tragic and wild retelling of Virgil’s “Aeneid” from the point of view of Lavinia, the otherwise marginalized wife of the titular hero, Aeneas. Le Guin’s book is a great work of historical fiction, of feminist literature, and also, it is…

Samuel R. Delany is a unique force in science fiction, fantasy and literature whose output over the decades includes early pulp adventures, epic science fiction, philosophical works of fantasy, memoir, criticism, and commentary. Here’s a fine, bite-sized profile of the good professor. Interview: Delany at Readercon 2011. Video by Eric Solstein of Delany reading from…

In which the inimitable Mr. Ellison talks about one of his storefront storywriting marathons, this one based on a prompt from NBC news anchor Tom Brokaw.