I have been away for awhile, undergoing dark & wondrous transformations, IA! Such as reading Mr. Alan Moores Neonomicon. It is not a review of the entire comic you should fear, dear readers! Rather, a LIST OF 9 THINGS YOU SHOULD NOT DO DURING A DEEP ONE MATING RITUAL
1: Yes, it formed an useful part of the ritual. Yes, one understands that he was ( Read more... )

Er, to mr. Kenneth Hite, that is
http://princeofcairo.livejournal.com/

Just in case you missed it-
http://lovecraftismissing.com/?m=200809&paged=2
Thanks for the Lovecraftiana-Nice thats its not only Joshi out there.

It is with a certain degree of pleasure that, in view of Mr. Lovecrafts odious attitude towards people, and in view, of certain recent political events, I compare him to Mr. Amos Tutuola. Now, one would not want to give cause for worry: Mr. Tutuola is neither barbarous nor strange. He has been laurel-crowned by both Mr. Alan Moore & Dylan Thomas: ( Read more... )

Lin(wood) (Vrooman) Carter was a poet & a scholar: but the spirit of the times made his life a hideous thing.
Allow one (or, to be honest, allow me to allow Jessica Amanda Salmonson) to illustrate:
http://www.violetbooks.com/lin-carter.html
The last section, "A Closing Remembrance", being of particular importance to those wondering who, exactly, this ( Read more... )

There are those who have accused Mr. Lyon Sprague de Camps "Lovecraft: a Biography" of being unduly critical. One begs to differ: if anything, it has been too influenced by the understandably one - sided positive biographies before it. Camps treatment is all the more impressive considering he was about as well - equipped to understand Mr. Lovecraft ( Read more... )

It is of course a matter of common report that the Rhinogradentia were known in certain refined aesthaethical circles well before Hr. Petterson - Skämtkvists more scientific registration of the creatures; that these circles encompassed both Herr. Morgenstern & Mr. Lovecraft is equally mundanely known, though why only Mr. Lovecrafts ( Read more... )

The general cultural acceptance of Cthulhulean forces is ever - waxing; already, now, it is hard to imagine the risk taken by Professor Joyce Carol Oates when she became their public disciple.
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1376
Professor Oates own writings, whilst firmly set in a ( Read more... )

There has been much of an uproar (as from the green gulfs of Ocean) about the "Gay Tori Spelling Cthulhu Movie"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cthulhu_%282007_film%29
on the net, recently; comments, both wry and outraged, on the irony/dis-respectfulness of such a queer ( Read more... )

I have recently read Don G. Smiths "H.P. Lovecraft in Popular Culture" - in case you were wondering, "popular culture" means "non - written media". Now, Professor Smith somehow still manages to take the apocalyptically absurd idea of an "post - literate society" seriously
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