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I was out ridiculously late last night with my friends; we watched X-Men: First Class.

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I was reading
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Though the story From Beyond lacks Lovecraft’s later artistry, substituting obvious horror for the subtlety of his more polished work, it shows one of his thematic elements - the scientist who overreaches the limits of what man was meant to know, and goes mad because of it ( Read more... )

H.P. Lovecraft’s work, with its creeping horrors and pervasive sense of unreality, is often dreamlike in its surreal quality. Characters are often left wondering if they had a nightmare - at least, until they discover some physical proof, to their horror.

The short stories Behind the Wall of Sleep and Hypnos both make clear the link between ( Read more... )

While many of Lovecraft’s stories still hold up today, Under the Pyramids, ghost-written for Harry Houdini, fails that test ( Read more... )

If H.P. Lovecraft were writing today, where would he take his inspiration from ( Read more... )

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So, that WSJ article.

A lot of people have interesting things to say about it. So of course I'm tossing in my two cents.

Ahem.

Ms. Gurdon can take her pearl-clutching and her gender-segregated list of appropriate reads and shove them somewhere inappropriate.I'm writing the books I wish had been in the school library when I was a kid. Books ( Read more... )