Link: Literary Slumming: August Derleth and Mark R. Schorer
It is easy for readers like myself to forget that Weird Tales writers and other pulpsters had literary ambitions. Dwelling in my fan-boy bubble, I Read More
Category: Horror
Clemence Housman’s “The Werewolf”
The Victorians produced many tales of werewolves but few have the impact of Clemence Housman’s “The Werewolf”. Partly because of her abilities as a writer, Read More
Link: The Trail of Lovecraft: Part Four: With Trembling Pen in Hand…
The trail has been long, beginning in the 1863 with J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s The House By the Churchyard, leading us through the 1920s and Read More
The Cases of Jules de Grandin – Part 1
This post is brought to you by The Book of the Black Sun II by G. W. Thomas, a Cthulhu Mythos collection with a difference. Read More
Link: The Trail of Lovecraft: Part Three: Clark Ashton Smith, The Great Thing
I saw something that bothered me the other day. A professional writer whom I admire said something to the effect that Clark Ashton Smith was Read More
Link: The Trail of Lovecraft: Part Two: Recycling the Mythos
In my last column, I talked about how J. Sheridan Le Fanu influenced H.P. Lovecraft, even though he never read the Irish master’s many great Read More
Link: The Trail of Lovecraft: Part One: J. Sheridan Le Fanu
H.P. Lovecraft was pretty thorough in his survey The Supernatural Horror in Literature, but he did not possess a crystal ball. He was limited to Read More
Link: Portrait of the Author as a Young Madman
The Lovecraft Circle played a kind of game, one in which they shared manuscripts before publication, in-jokes, writing jams and putting little snippets from one Read More
Link: Why I Watched Under the Dome
Damon Knight once reviewed a book thusly: “a plot that is kept in motion solely by the fact that everyone involved is an idiot.” That Read More
Link: The Yellow Nineties
I’m loving the second season of Penny Dreadful, which is set in that glorious decade known as “The Yellow Nineties.” I doubt many horror fans Read More