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Tag Archives: Lovecraft
Tentacles
Regular readers will be aware I review indie books when I read them. Or at least do if I love the books. If I don’t I keep quiet about it, because if I don’t like something it doesn’t mean others … Continue reading
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Tagged amreading, amreadinghorror, bookblog, bookloversday, bookreview, books, call of cthulhu, cthulhu, horror, Lovecraft, lovecraftian, mythos, reads, sciencefiction, steampunk, writer, writerslife, writing
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The strange foray into afterglow
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
Posted in amreading, amwriting, book reviews, books, fiction, goodreads, Hannibal Smyth, Harvey Duckman, indie, indie novels, indie writers, indiewriter, Lovecraft, mythos, novels, Nyarlathotep, opinion, pointless things of wonderfulness, reads, sci-fi, self-publishing, steampunk, supernatural, writes, writing
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A failure to Beware!
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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Tagged amreading, books, call of cthulhu, cthulhu, Lovecraft, lovecraftian, mythos, Nyarlathotep, reads, sciencefiction, writer, writerslife, writing, writingtips
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Echo’s of Lovecraft
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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Things to come… In Twenty Twenty-one
New years resolutions are always an exercise in futility and is 2020 taught us anything, its that all plans for a year are built on foundations of sand. This time last year I wrote that I hoped to write four … Continue reading
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Tagged amreading, amwriting, amwritingscifi, amwritingsteampunk, Lovecraft, reading, reads, sciencefiction, steampunk, steampunk fantasy, writerslife, writing
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Howard vs Lovecraft…
It is a reasonably undisputable fact that HP Lovecraft is more well known now than his most of his literary contemporary’s from the golden age of pulp scifi/fantasy magazines back in the 1920’s and 30’s. Indeed, were you asked to … Continue reading
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Writing the Lexicromicon
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
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
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
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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