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Tag Archives: Lovecraft
Hypnos: The Complete Lovecraft #35
“…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
Posted in dreamlands, Lovecraft, mythos, opinion, reads, retro book reviews
Tagged bookreview, dreamlands, drugs, Lovecraft, lovecraftian
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Herbert West-Reanimator: The Complete Lovecraft #34
Opinions are, as someone famous once vulgarly said, like arseholes, everyone body has one, and they stink up the place when let loose… Herbert West – Reanimator is a tale that inspires many opinions. S.T. Joshi, who has carved out a … Continue reading
Azathoth: The Complete lovecraft #33
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
Posted in dreamlands, Lovecraft, mythos, reads, sci-fi
Tagged amreading, bookreview, cthulhu, laundryfiles, Lovecraft, lovecraftian
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Darker Wisdoms
Writers can be a dark lot at times… Terry Pratchett, who has many so many of us smile, and laugh, and filled us with joy once told his friend, compatriot and occasional co-conspirator, Neil Gaiman, that he wrote not from joy but … Continue reading
Posted in humour, Lovecraft, pointless things of wonderfulness, quotes, writes, writing
Tagged #amwriting, amreading, humour, Lovecraft, pratchett, quotes
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The Other Gods: The complete Lovecraft #32
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
The Moon-bog: The Complete Lovecraftian #31
If in doubt, the sunken ruins of a lost city are just where you go, at least if you’re the old tentacle hugger. You have probably noticed that and if you haven’t then you’re not really paying attention. Lost cities and … Continue reading
The Nameless City: The Complete Lovecraft #29
“That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons, even death may die.” ~Abdul Alhazred There can be few tales of tales more Lovecraftian than ‘The Nameless City‘. A tale rejected by ‘Wierd Tales‘ twice and a succession … Continue reading
Posted in Lovecraft, mythos, reads, retro book reviews, rites
Tagged cthulhu, Lovecraft, lovecraftian, mythos, wierdtales
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Sweet Ermengarde: The Complete Lovecraftian #28
Some collections of Lovecraft which claim to be complete utterly ignore ‘Sweet Ermengarde’, thus expunge it from their pages. There are reasons to do so, not necessarily good reasons, but reasons all the same. I know this because of the two … Continue reading
Posted in goodreads, humour, Lovecraft, reads, retro book reviews
Tagged amreading, cthulhu, humour, Lovecraft, lovecraftian, music
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EX Oblivione: The complete Lovecraftian #27
“There is nothing better than oblivion, since in oblivion there is no wish unfulfilled.” ~ H.P. Lovecraft ‘In defence of Dacon‘ As a philosophical statement, let’s be honest here, the above is a bit on the bleak side. Though no … Continue reading
Posted in depression, Lovecraft, reads, sci-fi
Tagged cthulhu, depression, Lovecraft, nihilisum
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The Music of Erich Zann: The Complete Lovecraftian#26
Listen to them, the children of the night. What beautiful music they make: Bram Stoker… Music and horror have always been linked. Watch any horror movie, with the music track off, and you will see what I mean. We are … Continue reading
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