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The Other Gods: The complete Lovecraft #32

Posted on September 22, 2017 by

Pantheonic gods are cooler than monotheistic ones. I say this not to denigrate anyone’s faith. Somethings just are… A cigarette smoking teenage Marlon Brando in black leather in ‘Rebel without a cause’.  Leaning against a Harley Daverson answering the onerous question “What … Continue reading →

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The Temple: The complete Lovecraft #21

Posted on July 5, 2017 by

“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 →

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Celephais: The Complete Lovecraft #19

Posted on June 5, 2017 by

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 →

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Beyond the Walls of Sleep(movie): The Complete Lovecraft #15

Posted on February 20, 2017 by

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 →

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Life in the Passing Place

Posted on February 17, 2017 by

Step in from the cold, through the saloon door of the strangest bar in creation. A place where causality is just a set of rules and the rules can be bent. Where no one knows your name, but everyone has … Continue reading →

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The Statement of Randolph Carter: The Complete Lovecraft #14

Posted on February 15, 2017 by

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 →

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The Doom That Came To Sarnath: the complete Lovecraft#13

Posted on February 11, 2017 by

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 →

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