19th Annual H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival & CthulhuCon Preview, April 11 – 13: Portland, Or.
A Pre-Con report for the 19th Annual H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival & CthulhuCon from J. Simpson
Noticias literatura 12-2
“Vitoria Fantástica” ciclo de conferencias y presentaciones de libros en Vitoria Se ha anunciado el ciclo de charlas y presentaciones de libros titulado “Vitoria Fantástica”, que tendrá lugar de febrero a abril. Los actos del […]
Reclaiming Awe: The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All by Laird Barron
A review of a collection of short stories that brings us to that penultimate form of 20th century dread, Cosmic Horror
Happy New Year! My Top 25 Horror Moments Of 2013
Mr. Simpson shares 25 horrors with us, a journey through a horrifying year.
Ooky Spooky Animanga Part III: The Titilating Terror of Junji Ito
[Note: The following post contains some images that are visually disturbing. It is recommended that the reader use caution.] Do you like your comics with heavy inking? With a bit of body horror? With gruesome […]
Interview with Pat Mills, Founder of 2000AD
Over four decades Pat Mills has been a major force in keeping the British comics industry alive. I caught up with him to chat about the reappearance of one of his most enduringly popular characters, the Celtic barbarian, Sláine.
Noticias literatura 20-8
Upcoming Spanish language releases in the Fantascy series from Random House Mondadori
BERNHARDT J. HURWOOD, an unsung Hero of my Childhood.
Poe was too dry and Lovecraft was too trippy for my 10 year old soul, but Mr. Hurwood hit the spot, scratched the itch, tripped my trigger and blew my gaskets!
A Fan’s History — Fanzines, Continued….
Fanzines, continued: Okay, Mr. Smartypants, what’s a “sercon” zine? Actually, I’m glad you asked that question. It’s another of those annoying (well, to an outsider) fannish neologisms and acronyms. In this case, we have “serious” […]
A conversation with the Hall of Fame illustrator Murray Tinkelman
This past February I had the great pleasure of speaking with Mr. Murray Tinkelman, the famous and award winning illustrator. This came about by my wanting to do something different for once in the blog. […]
Review: The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft
I am still slogging my way through the complete works of HP Lovecraft. My Kindle tells me I am 28% done, of course that doesn’t count all of the stories I already have read, but […]
AMAZING News 7/21/2013
CAUSES 100 Great SF Stories by Women Don’t Travel to Texas If You Do Go to Texas, Stand With Their Women Scalzi on OSC Movie Boycott (Read through to the comments) CRAFT Food in Science […]
Four Reasons to Stay Out of the Water
Tales of Terror: Dark Waters Christopher Fulbright ND3 Press 0.99 Memorial Day is over, June has begun, and summer is upon us. Temperatures are climbing, and people are beginning to seek relief from the heat […]
Electrons for Everyone
As I sit wandering the internet for fresh tidbits of science fiction, fantasy, and horror, I find them flourishing everywhere. Perhaps flourishing is not the right word. Flourishing leads me to images of well-manicured flower […]
Review: Cthulhu Haiku and Other Mythos Madness
I mentioned Cthulhu Haiku and Other Mythos Madness, edited by Lester Smith (popcorn press) in a previous post, promising to review in full here in the future. The future has arrived. First let me […]
H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival & CthuluCon Happening This Weekend In Portland!
For many years, if you wanted to see the works of Howard Philips Lovecraft adapted for the big screen, one would have to have to content one’s self with endlessly re-watching The Bride Of Re-Animator […]
Open Source Horror: The Slender Man
In his terrific monograph, H. P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life, French novelist Michel Houellebecq proposes that Lovecraft differs from virtually all fiction writers before and after him because his work constitutes a founding […]
Review: The Case of Charles Dexter Ward by HP Lovecraft
A supernatural murder mystery is probably the best way to describe “The Case of Charles Dexter Ward“, the short novel by H.P. Lovecraft. Published after Lovecraft’s death in 1941, this tale combines tropes from horror, […]
SWORD & SORCERY BECOMES A SUB-GENRE: HENRY KUTTNER’S ELAK AND PRINCE RAYNOR
Henry Kuttner deserves our thanks. If things had been left to Clifford Ball, Sword & Sorcery would have fizzled out in the pages of Weird Tales. Ball, who we know very little about, was the […]
Review: At the Mountains of Madness by HP Lovecraft
While delving into the realm of science horror, I had the goal to read all of HP Lovecraft’s work. Having already read or listened to a significant portion of his fiction, I thought it would […]
BLUE PENCILS AND BLOODY SWORDS: EDITORS OF S&S
It’s easy to discuss authors for their contributions are evident. You just have to read the stories. The great editors are harder to corral, for the editor’s job is one of selection, guidance, subjective acts […]
We Can Hear You Scream: An Overview of SF/Horror Literature
The fear of the dark, the unknown, the monster standing right behind you ready to tear you limb from limb…is part of the human condition. Since the dawn of civilization we have been terrified by […]
Supernatural Horror In Literature
The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for detachment from every-day life. Relatively few are free enough from the […]
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