Leslie S. Klinger, the annotator of The New Annotated H.P. Lovecraft: Beyond Arkham, is a very thorough fellow. His attention to detail is intensive and his penchant for in-depth research dazzles. In this second volume, the follow-up to 2014’s The ...
Read More »The Ballad of Black Tom (Book review)
It is well known that iconic horror writer H.P. Lovecraft was a racist. Last year, the World Fantasy Awards decided to cease having Lovecraft’s image on its trophy for that reason. Lovecraft died in 1937. Many who opposed the banishing ...
Read More »HP Lovecraft’s The Thing on the Doorstep Gets the Indie Treatment
Hollywood has not been kind to H.P. Lovecraft, a writer who, despite being more popular now than he ever was in his own lifetime, seems perpetually unable to find writers and directors willing to give him his due. But where ...
Read More »Destroyers of Worlds: Kaiju, Cosmic Horror, and Atomic Elder Gods
“The basis of all true cosmic horror is violation of the order of nature, and the profoundest violations are always the least concrete and describable.” – H.P. Lovecraft, Selected Letters III “There are no secrets about the world of nature. ...
Read More »Lovecraft’s Monsters (Book Review)
Craving some Lovecraft? Want to swim with (not exactly) fish? Like girls with gills, guys with BIG lips or vice versa? Do webbed appendages entice? Well, Editor Ellen Datlow has put together an anthology that will rock your liquid fantasies. ...
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