1. The new full cast media conference for 2012's The Hobbit: Part 1. See it here.
2. A new clip for 2011's Jane Eyre. See it here.
3. Here's a message from our girl Virginia, courtesy of my better half.
4. I thoroughly enjoyed Jana Oliver's new book The Demon Trapper's Daughter.
5. I am once again rereading (I've lost count of how many times I've done this) one of the seminal texts a) in world literature, b) in the Gothic and science fiction traditions, and c) in my personal life, Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, in anticipation of seeing this next month:

6. From Slice of Scifi, "Everything You Needed to Know about Doctor Who in One Poster":

Holmes looked at me thoughtfully and shook his head.
"I never get your limits, Watson," said he. "There are unexplored possibilities about you."
- from Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire"