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Saint medals of that size usually just have the words "Pray for us" on the back. There are a lot of standard St Jude prayers, though, so my own guess is that he was intimately familiar with the particular one he used; he was able to repeat it so fluently and quickly. Sadly, I don't speak Latin and the only words I understood involved asking the saint to pray for her and that's pretty standard verbiage. I'm still looking, though, because now it's a Thing and I want to find out more. :-D Once he understood it was possession and not madness, I think he was hoping they'd bring in a professional instead of needing him to MacGyver up a temporary divine fix. Edited to add: He doesn't have to have been a priest! It turns out, there are exorcism prayers that can be used by the faithful who aren't actual clergy. [search for "laity exorcism"] Apparently abjuration in this sense is a term used mostly by people who do occult magic. (I blame my background in role-playing games that I even learned it.) Granted, he still could be / could have been some sort of clergy, but I like the idea that anyone with faith could become an effective demon hunter.

These suggestions come about after watching the latest episode of Penny Dreadful and wondering, "What the hell prayer or ritual was that?!?" The first is "Roman Catholicism in Fantastic Film: Essays on Belief, Spectacle, Ritual and Imagery" edited by Regina Hansen, and the second is "Sacred Terror: Religion and Horror on the Silver Screen" by Douglas E. Cowan. Both are about how religion is used and often misused in genre film, and they are really interesting. The first book is a collection of essays, so hit and miss depending on which topics have your interest, and the second is pretty academic but still enjoyable.

St Jude, on whom Ethan called during his exorcism / abjuration, was a good choice. He's not just the patron saint of lost causes, he was also known to be a healer and an exorcist. I'm still leaning more toward the idea that this was an abjuration because he called on St Jude over and over with the same prayer, instead of the full Rituale Romanum that we know from other movies. Abjurations normally just force the demon from the presence of the faithful for a short time, though, so this might not be over yet. NB: I've been reading a lot lately about the use of religion -- Catholicism, in particular -- in fantasy and horror stories, so my theorizing is based on that more than on anything. I accept the fact that there might be flaws in my understanding of the theology at work. :-)

A new edition of "Toms, C****" etc is supposed to be coming out in Fall, but they were saying that last year.

I cannot believe I forgot this! World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (the complete edition). This is a perfect book to adapt for audio, because each chapter is basically one person's story, so one actor per character. The complete cast list has an amazing collection of people, too, so I highly recommend this. I haven't heard the new-ish complete edition yet, but the abridged version was awesome. I don't even like zombie stories and I loved this book.

I am amused by a small detail; the actress that played Vanessa's mother also played Eva Green's character's mother in the film "The Dreamers".

I'm not normally a fan of audio books because I read more non-fiction than anything and I don't have the patience to have that sort of thing read to me. However, someone telling me a story just feels different, so those books I tend to get according to the reader or performers. The Series of Unfortunate Events books as read by Tim Curry are lots of fun, but I haven't listened to the other readers yet. He's a very Snicket-y read, is Mr. Curry. Any of the Jon Ronson books that he reads himself are hilarious, even though they are non-fiction, because he seems perpetually bewildered to be in the situations he gets himself into. All the versions of Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere are fun, but I especially like the BBC 4 Radio Play with James MacAvoy as Richard and Natalie Dormer as The Lady Door. Gaiman's Anansi Boys is also good because Lenny Henry reads the voices and dialects perfectly. Lastly, Samuel L Jackson reading "Go the F**k to Sleep" is funnier than it should be. :-)

I like short story collections because they have such variety. The Armless Maiden and Other Tales for Childhood's Survivors edited by Terri Windling The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter Little Red Riding Hood in the Big Bad City edited by Martin H. Greenberg Red as Blood by Tanith Lee Snow White, Blood Red edited by Ellen Datlow

I love this forum discussion already. :-D We have a store in Seattle called Cinema Books that has nothing but books on all aspects of media production, so it's really easy for me to stumble on a wide variety of TV and movie topics that turned out to be surprisingly interesting. Because I don't have a topic to stick to, here is a random handful of titles. Created by: Inside the Minds of TV's Top Show Creators by Steven Prigge It's nominally a book about how to get a job as a TV writer, but what makes it enjoyable are the insights the various creators give on works we know. Ghostwatch: Behind the Curtains by Rich Lawden Everything you ever wanted to know about the creation and reception of one of the best tv "hoaxes" ever. I use hoax in quotes because the show was never intended to be believed, much like War of the Worlds. They just wanted to make a scary Halloween show, and they were a bit too successful. Yes, the book is on Lulu, but it's well-written and of good quality. Lab Coats in Hollywood: Science, Scientists, and Cinema by David A. Kirby It's about how science consultants try to bring realistic science to all sorts of movies. This book talks about successes, failures, and the negotiation between science realism and the necessities of movie production. Operation Hollywood: How the Pentagon Shapes and Censors the Movies by David L. Robb Synopsis: Directors of war and action movies receive access to billions of dollars worth of military equipment and personnel, but it comes with a hidden cost. As a veteran Hollywood journalist shows, the final product is often not just what the director intends but also what the powers-that-be in the military want to project about America's armed forces. The Exorcist: Studies in the Horror Film by Danel Olson This is the largest and most in-depth examination of The Exorcist that I've ever seen. Production information, essays, and photos fill 500+ pages. Huge dense book. The Philosophy of TV Noir by Steven Sanders and Aeon J. Skoble Synopsis: Drawing from the fields of philosophy, media studies, and literature, the contributors to The Philosophy of TV Noir illuminate the best of noir television. Prime Time Blues : African Americans on Network Television by Donald Bogle It's a bit out of date, having come out in 2002, but it covers a lot of ground, so it's a great start for learning some TV history. I don't know that I agree with his opinions and conclusions all the time, but I appreciate his giving the reader so much to learn from.

"Will wants to think of this as purely an intellectual exercise, and in the narrow definition of forensics, that's what it is. He's good at that, but there are other people just as good, I imagine." "But—" “What he has in addition is pure empathy and projection,” Dr. Bloom said. “He can assume your point of view, or mine—and maybe some other points of view that scare and sicken him. It's an uncomfortable gift, Jack. Perception's a tool that's pointed on both ends." I'm using Google Books for this, which gives it as pages 189 of the version of Red Dragon they are using.

Grey Worm now has feelings for someone other than Daenerys. Will she be amused and tolerant or will she see it as a threat to her need to dominate of all she surveys? Missandei keeps trying to pull from Grey Worm his memories of life before becoming Unsullied. If he comes to sees himself as more of an individual man with his own desires and not just those of the Khaleesi, will that change anything? At least I hope there's more to it than cuteness, because this is a gritty dark show about dark grittiness hiding in the shadows of a greater grittier darkness and nothing marginally pleasant can survive.

There are plenty of parents in the real world who kill their children to spite their partners, so Hannibal doing it doesn't surprise me. He kills so often and for less personal reasons that doing so to hurt Will is almost more normal.

I've found some interesting recent articles about José Andrés and his contributions as a culinary consultant. How to Cook a Human with Hannibal's Bryan Fuller and Chef Jose Andres (TV Guide) Killer food: Dissecting José Andrés’ culinary visions for NBC series ‘Hannibal’ (Las Vegas Weekly) Also, there is an interesting academic article on "symbolic meanings of food through Hannibal’s food work and food spaces" called Playing God in the Meals of Hannibal Lecter by Choi Yik Heng.

What happened was, the real-life case first appeared in Geberth's second edition of his textbook (1996). Harris used the details in Hannibal (1999). Geberth got annoyed that his own book wasn't credited as the source, so Harris added some special thanks in subsequent editions of the novel. Geberth later presented the case at the AAFS conference in 2009, because everyone was curious about it thanks to the novel and film. Edited to add: Here is a link to the meeting notes from that AAFS conference. He presented it at a breakfast seminar! http://www.ncstl.org/search/results/view/85089

I've seen the original photos [in a homicide textbook] that inspired Mason's fate at Lecter's hands, and I really hope it's not so vivid when televised. Which is admittedly a silly concern, given what we've already seen, but it's just that little bit too real for me.

I like that Collider article for talking more about censorship issues with the show, and to reiterate that if NBC hadn't picked up the show, there was still a Plan B.

JACK CRAWFORD Where do you fall on the spectrum? Will picks up the rhythm and syntax of Jack’s voice: WILL GRAHAM My horse is hitched to a post closer to Aspergers and Autistics than narcissists and sociopaths. Which isn't really an affirmative answer, seeing as narcissism and sociopthy are personality disorders and not part of the autism spectrum. However, it's the sort of answer that can be accepted without more probing; it's a lie of omission.

This article is specifically about Hannibal’s Feminist Take on Horror, which I am posting because it came up in another topic here.

What he'd said was, "I don't want to do rape stories on the show, because I don't find them entertaining. I think that they're exploitive. There are some rape elements intrinsic in the novels that I'm, like, how do we shift that story so it's not about rape."

He was distancing himself from people in ways that other people associate with Asperger's, but I don't think it was deliberate mimicry. I think it's more that there are many popular conceptions (and misconceptions) about the autism spectrum, and people draw their own conclusions.

Bryan Fuller Breaks Down The Homoerotic Charge of “Hannibal” This has a lot of interesting stuff in it about text / subtext, intimacy, 'bromance', and grisly murder tableaux.

"Goodbye horses, I'm flying over you... Probably not intentional, but the starling brought this to mind. :-)

Jack pushing him did cause great stress, though, which affected Will's immune system. The compromised immune system issues led to the encephalitis, just as it did with real-life profiler John Douglas.

So might the drumstick with raised claw represent the mushroom garden victims, with all those hands sticking up from the earth?

Thank you so much for this! I have purposefully avoided the books, so being able to discuss the show as a show will be a happy thing for me.