Tag Archives: cthulhu

The strange foray into afterglow

Posted on March 25, 2022 by darrack1

In less than a month I have managed to publish two books. Admittedly I expected to publish both of them last year and then didn’t… But still its been a busy time with years worth of work coming to fruition … Continue reading →

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A failure to Beware!

Posted on March 7, 2022 by darrack1

A year ago I discovered an oddly entertaining fact. I was born on the day Howard Philip Lovecraft died. Why I found this oddly entertaining is a long story, but in essence, I’ve joked for a long time that I … Continue reading →

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Echo’s of Lovecraft

Posted on January 12, 2022 by darrack1

Back at the end of November I reviews a novel by Keith Healing called ‘The Burnt Watcher‘, I was, you may recall, quite taken with it, and the post cataclysm world in which it took place. Not least because it … Continue reading →

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Writing the Lexicromicon

Posted on October 19, 2020 by darrack1

Over the course of the last four years I have somewhat inadvertently written a non-fiction book. This was a somewhat alarming thing to discover as it was never really my intention. I’m a writer of fiction god-damn-it. I don’t write … Continue reading →

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The Book : TCL #66

Posted on October 9, 2020 by darrack1

Towards the end of his life Lovecraft had a minor crisis of confidence in his own writing. Such minor crisis are not particularly unusual among writers, it probably was not the first time in his career, it was probably the … Continue reading →

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The Evil Clergyman : TCL 65

Posted on October 8, 2020 by darrack1

Old tentacle hugger had more than his fair share of strange dream by anybody’s standards. It was often these dreams that inspired aspect of his stories and occasionally there entirety. This story however is unique among the collected works because … Continue reading →

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The Thing On The Doorstep : TCL 64

Posted on October 8, 2020 by darrack1

It is true that I have sent six bullets through the head of my best friend, and yet I hope to shew by this statement that I am not his murderer. At first I shall be called a madman—madder than … Continue reading →

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The Shadow over Innsmouth / TCL #61

Posted on September 23, 2020 by darrack1

While many of Lovecraft’s stories were published in periodical magazines like Weird Tales in his lifetime, only one was ever published as a book, even then the whole print run was only 200 copies each priced at a dollar. It … Continue reading →

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At The Mountains Of Madness :TCL #60

Posted on September 18, 2020 by darrack1

Its fair to say that of all Lovecraft’s stories Call of Cthulhu has had the greatest cultural impact in the zeitgeist, but in terms of over all impact and inspiration At The Mountains of Madness probably tips the scales. Of … Continue reading →

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The Whisperer In Darkness: TCL #59

Posted on September 18, 2020 by darrack1

Its been a while since I wrote about Lovecraft, my original plan to read and blog every Lovercraft story in a year is somewhat behind schedule as I started it way back in January 2017. But there are still plenty … Continue reading →