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Tag Archives: cthulhu
Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family: The Complete Lovecraftian#22
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
Posted in humour, Lovecraft, retro book reviews, rites
Tagged amreading, bookreview, cthulhu, Lovecraft
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The Temple: The complete Lovecraft #21
“He is calling! He is calling!” The question of whom is doing the calling above, well that’s one open to interpretation, but whoever it may be they reside in an ancient temple submerges deep below the waves of the Atlantic… Of … Continue reading
Posted in Lovecraft, mythos, retro book reviews, rites
Tagged amreading, cthulhu, horror, Lovecraft
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The Picture in the House: The complete Lovecraft #20
Lovecraft’s tales cover a broad spectrum, but the best of them are those that inspire a visceral response deep in your gut. The ones that get under your skin, gnaw the back of your mind and invoke your inner fears. ‘The … Continue reading
Posted in Lovecraft, mythos, retro book reviews, rites
Tagged amreading, cthulhu, Lovecraft
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Celephais: The Complete Lovecraft #19
Regular readers may have noticed there has been a bit of a lull in Lovecraftian posts for the last couple of months. Indeed the last of these was ‘The Tree‘ way back in early April. There are several reasons for … Continue reading
The Cats of Ulthar: The complete Lovecraft#17
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
Posted in dreamlands, Lovecraft, opinion, retro book reviews
Tagged bookreview, cthulhu, Lovecraft
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The Terrible Old Man: The complete Lovecraft#16
Among other things, I am a bit of an aficionado of the ‘Future Shock’. For those that have never heard of them, they are short one-off stories in the British comic 2000AD, generally written by new up and coming writers, … Continue reading
Posted in 2000AD, Lovecraft, retro book reviews
Tagged #amwriting, 2000AD, cthulhu, Lovecraft
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Beyond the Walls of Sleep(movie): The Complete Lovecraft #15
In a slight detour from the written word, I am going to look beyond Lovecraft’s stories to someone else’s interpretation of one of them. If you remember back to my review of ‘Beyond the walls of sleep‘ you will remember that a … Continue reading
Posted in Lovecraft, movies, pointless things of wonderfulness
Tagged cthulhu, horror, Lovecraft, movies
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The Statement of Randolph Carter: The Complete Lovecraft #14
This is one of those tales you come across in Lovecraft’s mythos that leaves you with no more than a half-hearted um… It’s just simple and straightforward without any real depth to it. A run of the mill tale that … Continue reading
Posted in Lovecraft, mythos, retro book reviews, Uncategorized
Tagged #amwriting, cthulhu, horror, Lovecraft
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The Doom That Came To Sarnath: the complete Lovecraft#13
Thirteen is an ominous number on occasion. This being the thirteenth post, it is perhaps appropriate that it is ‘The Doom That Came To Sarnath’. For more reasons than one. As the subject is an impending doom befalling a city, … Continue reading
Posted in book reviews, Lovecraft, pointless things of wonderfulness, rites
Tagged amreading, bookblog, bookreviews, cthulhu, horror, Lovecraft
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The Street: The Complete Lovecraft#12
The first time I read this story I was left feeling a little uneasy, and not sure why. If I had read it in the past, it escapes my memory, so it was one I came to fresh for this … Continue reading
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