Lovecraftian Stories You Might Have Missed
Notice the “Lovecraftian stories”, not “Cthulhu Mythos stories” of the title. If you have been at this Mythos thing as long as I have (actively Read More
Tag: H. P. Lovecraft
Frank Belknap Long – Part Two: The 1940s
If you missed Part One… The 1940s saw Frank Belnkap Long move into new areas as a professional writer. He is moving away from Lovecraft Read More
Link: The Two-(or More) Headed Mythos Monster: Collaboration
In 1934, H.P. Lovecraft and his friend Robert H. Barlow poked fun at all their friends and acquaintances in a story called “The Battle That Read More
Frank Belknap Long – Part One: 1920-1939
Frank Belknap Long (1901-1994) had a career that spanned seven decades. He began in the pages of Weird Tales, and was actually H. P. Lovecraft’s Read More
The Passage of Dilvish
Roger Zelazny’s Dilvish the Damned had two distinct periods of development, separated by a twelve year hiatus. The first explosion of story writing was in Read More
The Casebook of Lucius Leffing (1973)
Joseph Payne Brennan (1918-1990) created The Casebook of Lucius Leffing in a spirit of another age. Which is fitting, since Leffing himself suffers from the Read More
Mythos Sites: Nan-Matol
This post is brought to you by The Book of the Black Sun by G. W. Thomas, a mandala of Cthulhu Mythos fiction featuring a Read More
Lin Carter & His Pastiches
On Facebook somebody said why doesn’t somebody do a list of all the authors that inspired Lin Carter’s many pastiches? Well kids, let’s give it Read More
Yag-kosha and The Tower of the Elephant
“The Tower of the Elephant” (Weird Tales, March 1933) by Robert E. Howard is one of the central Conan stories, set in his youth. Conan Read More
Release the Hounds! The Demon Dogs of Weird Tales
Weird Tales featured many themes such as vampires, werewolves, plant monsters, cats, the undead and, of course, ghosts. One of the animal themes was dogs, Read More