Category Archives: rites

Quoting the horror…

Posted on March 26, 2019 by

Everyone likes a good horror movie, even if they say they don’t, and the best horror movies often start out as novels. Of course, they don’t always seem much like the novels when they are finished, and the novels are … Continue reading →

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The Dream-Quest Of Unknown Kadath: TCL #52

Posted on February 13, 2019 by

So, here we are after 47 shorts stories of various qualities from the wonderful to the torrid, a fragment which should never really have been printed, a couple of serials, one fabulously entertaining, one best forgotten, and one novelette the … Continue reading →

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The Silver Key: TCL#50

Posted on December 17, 2018 by

Randolph ‘bloody’ Carter, where have I read that name before… Or more to the point where will I read it again.. Way back in the dim dark days of February 2017, when the Lovecraftian parts of this blog were still … Continue reading →

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Dresden in Teeside: Book review: Brennan and Rix…

Posted on December 14, 2018 by

I have an unfortunate habit… Okay, I have lots of unfortunates habits, starting blog posts off with irrelevant tangents before I even get in the vague vicinity of the point being one of them. But if you’re not a regular … Continue reading →

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The Call Of Cthulhu: TCL #47 Part 2 The Tale of Inspector Legrasse…

Posted on June 11, 2018 by

“Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn.” “In his house at R’lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.” The above is from the second part of Call of Cthulhu, Lovecraft’s most well-known work, and one of his best. I’m not going to make … Continue reading →

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In The Vault: The Complete Lovecraftian #44

Posted on May 8, 2018 by

Not for the first time, and not for the last, I find myself with little sympathy for the unfortunate main character of a Lovecraft short story. Let’s face it, Lovecraft’s characters often get what they deserve. Okay, that may seem harsh, after all, who … Continue reading →

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He: The Complete Lovecraftian #43

Posted on May 3, 2018 by

New York, New York; the big apple, the land of dreams, where the canyon walls are made of concrete and glass, full of life and people of all creed and custom, the melting pot of the western world. Who could … Continue reading →

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The Horror At Red Hook: The Complete Lovecraftian #42

Posted on April 10, 2018 by

It was back in the 80’s when I first came across the literary universe of H.P Lovecraft, and I came across in it a way that many people fo my generation did, in the form of the Call of Cthulhu … Continue reading →

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Nyarlathotep – a strange convergence

Posted on April 9, 2018 by

‘And it was then that Nyarlathotep came out of Egypt.’ It may be a sign that the end of times is upon us. Or perhaps just a sign that some people believe it is so. Or a sign of a … Continue reading →

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The Festival: The Complete Lovecraft #40

Posted on March 5, 2018 by

“Efficiunt Daemones, ut quae non sunt, sic tamen quasi sint, conspicienda hominibus exhibeant.” —Lactantius. (Devils so work, that things which are not, appear to men as if they were real.) The mildly ominous quote above preludes a Lovecraft tale that … Continue reading →

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