The Starry Wisdom : A Tribute to H. P. Lovecraft
Oct05

The Starry Wisdom : A Tribute to H. P. Lovecraft

The Starry Wisdom A Tribute to H. P. Lovecraft Edited by D. M. Mitchell   An Occasional Look at Lovecraftian Anthologies: 8   Do you like wallowing in other people’s shit?  No, I’m serious.  Is your particular satisfaction based on getting right down there and rolling around in the excreted waste of others?  Or reading loving descriptions of the same? How about descriptions of male and female genitalia so extreme that they are more...

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Hours of the Dragon The Weird Works of Robert E. Howard, Volume 8
Oct05

Hours of the Dragon The Weird Works of Robert E. Howard, Volume 8

Hours of the Dragon The Weird Works of Robert E. Howard, Volume 8 Edited by Paul Herman   These ongoing pieces are overviews rather than reviews and therefore contain spoilers galore.         When you take a moment to think about it, in the half-a-dozen or so years after 1928, between them Howard Phillips Lovecraft and Robert Ervin Howard changed the very face of horror/fantasy writing – and the reverberations...

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