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Bright Futures: BitCoin Hurricane’s

Posted on December 14, 2017 by Mark Hayes

The future’s bright… Utopian in fact… No, really it is… Everything has an upside, even global warming, welcome to a future where Burgundy grapes are grown on the south facing slopes of the North Yorkshire Moors, and English summers are … Continue reading →

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The Hound: The Complete Lovecraft #36

Posted on October 30, 2017 by Mark Hayes

From one of the crumbling gravestones–dated 1747–I chipped a small piece to carry away. It lies before me as I write–and ought to suggest some sort of horror story. I must place it beneath my pillow as I sleep… Just … Continue reading →

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What The Moon Brings: The Complete Lovecraft #36

Posted on October 18, 2017 by Mark Hayes

ales …the spectral summer when the moon shone down on the old garden where I wandered; the spectral summer of narcotic flowers and humid seas of foliage that bring wild and many-coloured dreams… Lovecraft at his best is a master … Continue reading →

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Hypnos: The Complete Lovecraft #35

Posted on October 10, 2017 by Mark Hayes

“…Young with the youth that is outside time, and with beauteous bearded face, curved, smiling lips, Olympian brow, and dense locks waving and poppy-crowned.” As gods go in Lovecraft’s fiction, the Greek god of sleep is probably one of the least … Continue reading →

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Azathoth: The Complete lovecraft #33

Posted on September 28, 2017 by Mark Hayes

The novel that never was… About a deity never mentioned in the fragment that remains… Azathoth is arguably the great lost work. If a copy of the complete word exists, it is only in the Library of unwritten books in the castle … Continue reading →

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Nyarlathotep: The Complete Lovecraftian#24

Posted on August 1, 2017 by Mark Hayes

Nyarlathotep . . . the crawling chaos . . . I am the last . . . I will tell the audient void. . .  Of all the pantheonic creatures of mythos created by Lovecraft, Nyarlathotep is perhaps second only to old tentacle face himself in its impact upon popular culture. I … Continue reading →

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From Beyond: The Complete Lovecraftian#23

Posted on July 19, 2017 by Mark Hayes

You don’t have to read much of ‘From Beyond’ to know you’re in the middle of Lovecraft country. If ever a passage screamed Lovecraft it is this one from the first page of the story… “What do we know,” he … Continue reading →

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Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family: The Complete Lovecraftian#22

Posted on July 13, 2017 by Mark Hayes

As titles go, ‘Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family.‘ is laborious, and fails to even give the slightest of inclines as to what the tale is about. Even for Lovecraft, a writer knows for his occasionally vague titles, … Continue reading →

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‘Beyond Redemption’ and the bedside table…

Posted on June 4, 2017 by Mark Hayes

I read a lot, as most writers do. Indeed it is more or less a prime requisite for the job. The great sage himself, Stephen King, says… “If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above … Continue reading →

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The Cats of Ulthar: The complete Lovecraft#17

Posted on March 19, 2017 by Mark Hayes

Cats walk between worlds, the real and the mystical, the mortal and the spiritual, the land of the living and the land of the dead… Least ways this is a recurring theme through fiction and the mythologies of the ancient … Continue reading →

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