Richard Jacob's Story

-Jacobs, M

In this taxonomic paper Almeda is the first (to my knowledge) to find and report a relationship between a melastome, Clidemia hammelii, and a mite inhabiting its domatia. The genus of mite is Ololaelaps (Gamasida, familia Laelapidae) and G. W. Krantz (cited in Almeda, 1989) stated that this was an unusual habitat for this genus of mites because they are usually found on moss or leaf litter, or ...

Remembering Richard [Obituary, Richard A.Newton]

Walter A. Jacobs, 1923

Ken Jacobs, Alchemist

«it Reminded Me of Poe’s Story»: Edgar Allan Poe’s Legacy, the Ghost Story and the American Gothic in Richard Matheson’s a Stir of Echoes

Even if A Stir of Echoes (1958) has often been overshadowed by Richard Matheson’s best-known novels I Am Legend (1954) and The Shrinking Man (1956), it should be given the credit it deserves as a novel that functions both as a reflection as well as a source of intertextuality. A Stir of Echoes is rooted in the tradition of the ghost story and the American gothic, but above all, it comprises mot...