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Pulp scholar specializing in H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard. Author of SEX AND THE CTHULHU MYTHOS. Reader of dead people's letters. He/him.

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Book catalogue project, day 14: THE BLACK BOOK OF CLARK ASHTON SMITH (1979, Arkham House) by Clark Ashton Smith. Clean pages, except for a little spotting on the edges.

Book catalogue project, day 13: GENIUS LOCI (1948, Arkham House) by Clark Ashton Smith. Dustjacket worn, faded. Pages tanned. In mylar. Previous owner's signature and bookplate.

Tonight's film is TOKYO SPECIES (2012, TOKYOスピーシーズ), a Japanese science fiction/horror film which is, as the title may suggest, a takeoff of the 1995 US film SPECIES (which, weirdly, in Japan did not stop with the 4 official installments).

Four LOVECRAFTIAN films I really adore. #filmsky

Four LOVECRAFTIAN films I really despise. #filmsky

Four films I really despise. #filmsky

This week on Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein we look at Spanish comic artist Joan Boix's "La Maladicion del Amuleto" (1985), an adaption of Lovecraft's "The Hound." deepcuts.blog/2024/07/06/l...

“La Maladicion del Amuleto” (1985) by Joan Boix & H. P. Lovecraftdeepcuts.blog Hay quienes consideran el género de TERROR como un subproductio. Es cierto que, como en todo, a veces domina una calidad ínfirma, pero no sólo en los Comics. También en cinema, televisión, literature....

Book catalogue project, day 13: GENIUS LOCI (1948, Arkham House) by Clark Ashton Smith. Dustjacket worn, faded. Pages tanned. In mylar. Previous owner's signature and bookplate.

Book catalogue project, day 12: The Eye and The Finger (1944, Arkham House) by Donald Wandrei. Dustjacket chipped, faded. Pages tanned. In mylar. Previous owner's signature and bookplate.

This is part of the thing that makes me drag my feet on the book. It's difficult to work on book trying to examine Lovecraft's prejudices and how they influenced his fiction in detail when folks don't even want to engage with the idea beyond the common-internet-knowledge level.

Was looking through an online scan of ABBOTT'S MAGAZINE - a 1930s periodical aimed at a Black audience - the small ads in those often tell you a lot about the intended readership.

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Well, I ordered the curry powder. Now, we wait.

Top three warning labels on the blog boil down to: 1) NSFW 2) Historical racism 3) Scary clown

The world doesn't lack for Cthulhu Mythos anthologies. That said, if I were a publisher with the money to pay writers what they're worth and produce the books I'd want to read, there are a few anthologies I'd love to see. So here are my top 5 hypothetical Mythos anthologies.

Underappreciated deep cut of the day: Lovecraft's odd connection to Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and his idiosyncratic reading of "The Yellow Wallpaper." deepcuts.blog/2021/05/01/t...

“The Yellow Wallpaper” (1892) by Charlotte Perkins Gilmandeepcuts.blog It is dull enough to confuse the eye in following, pronounced enough to constantly irritate, and provoke study, and when you follow the lame, uncertain curves for a little distance they suddenly commi...

"[...] while he who has never eaten a young wombat treated with coriander seeds, turmeric, green mango and dry ginger has not used his opportunities." - Marcus Clarke, quoted in Barbara Santich's IN THE LAND OF THE MAGIC PUDDING: A GASTRONOMIC MISCELLANY

Book catalogue project, day 12: The Eye and The Finger (1944, Arkham House) by Donald Wandrei. Dustjacket chipped, faded. Pages tanned. In mylar. Previous owner's signature and bookplate.

Book catalogue project, day 11: DISCLOSURES IN SCARLET (1972, Arkham House) by Carl Jacobi. Clean pages, excellent dustjacket, in mylar.

Tonight's film is LADY VAMPIRE (1959, 女吸血鬼), a Japanese black-and-white horror film, supposedly the first to feature a Western-style vampire.

My favorite response to the blog so far is: "Yeah, I want something just like that, just not written by that guy."

It's always weird to me when I see the rates on a call for submissions and realize I've paid more per-word on a guest post for the blog than some folks get paid for a 5k story.

"The phrase humorous stars is correct. I meant to signify the ironic indifference of the cosmos." - H. P. Lovecraft to R. H. Barlow, 1 Dec 1934, OFF 191

Book catalogue project, day 11: DISCLOSURES IN SCARLET (1972, Arkham House) by Carl Jacobi. Clean pages, excellent dustjacket, in mylar.

Book catalogue project, day 10: PORTRAITS IN MOONLIGHT (1964, Arkham House) by Carl Jacobi. Clean pages, slightly scuffed and faded dustjacket.

Tonight's film: VAMPIRE BRIDE (1960, 花嫁吸血魔), a Japanese black-and-white horror movie that promises to be interesting.

It's a short and sweet mid-week special on Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein (or Klarkashtonian Vein) as we look at "To Clark Ashton Smith" (1951), a tributary poem by Evelyn Thorne, a poet who has sadly fallen into semi-obscurity. deepcuts.blog/2024/07/03/t...

“To Clark Ashton Smith” (1951) by Evelyn Thornedeepcuts.blog TO CLARK ASHTON SMITH I think quicksilver leaps along his veins,And if you look too deeply in his eyes,You'll see behind the ice-thin laughter thereThe smouldering glimpse of fateful sorceries. I thin...

Book catalogue project, day 10: PORTRAITS IN MOONLIGHT (1964, Arkham House) by Carl Jacobi. Clean pages, slightly scuffed and faded dustjacket.

*technical difficulties resolved* Book catalogue project, day 9: A RESTITUTION OF DECAYED INTELLIGENCE by Richard Verstegan, 1655 edition (T. Newcomb, London). Leatherbound. Spine labeled "English Antiquities" in gilt, with 4 raised bands. Cover and pages worn and dirty.

Underappreciated deep cut of the day: That time a men's magazine censored the name of the cat in "The Rats in the Walls," and why we don't do that anymore. deepcuts.blog/2023/05/20/t...

“The Rats in the Walls” (1956) by H. P. Lovecraftdeepcuts.blog Racist Language The following article deals explicitly with racist language in a historical context. Frank discussion of these matters requires the reproduction of at least some samples of these pejor...

Book catalogue project, day 8: Revelations in Black (1947, Arkham House) by Carl Jacobi. Clean pages, excellent dustjacket. In mylar.

If the blog has accomplished nothing else, it's published a few banger guest posts. deepcuts.blog/2022/02/05/a...

A Transmasculine Horror Writer Looks At Lovecraftdeepcuts.blog A Transmasculine Horror Writer Looks At Lovecraft by Joe Koch If we speculate that all horror is body horror—and we may because the emotional energy experienced interacting with horror arises physiolo...

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You should check out my experimental body horror comic, Disorder. It’s 148 pages of visceral body horror about self destruction, self creation, and the horror of living in a world built upon the endless breaking of trans bodies. You can get it from my shop erikapriceart.bigcartel.com/product/diso...

I should really make a will to the effect that when I die all my books sitting in publishing limbo get released for free online.

Still struggling with negative thoughts. So, a positive. Here's a list of five (okay, six) women whose work inspired H. P. Lovecraft.

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Lovecraft Unbound will be on sale as an ebook for $2.99 in Canada and the US July 1-July 31. openroadmedia.com/ebook/lovecr...

Lovecraft Unboundopenroadmedia.com <div><b>“Readers who know Lovecraft’s legacy mostly through turgid and tentacled Cthulhu Mythos pastiches will find this book a treasure tro