Link: Sing a Song of Tentacles: Mythos Poetry
H. P. Lovecraft and his two closest Mythos-writing friends, Clark Ashton Smith and Robert E. Howard, all wrote poetry. It’s what people who were born Read More
Category: Cthulhu Mythos
Link: By Its Cover: Mythos Tomes
H. P. Lovecraft did not invent the idea of the arcane tome, one so evil its very existence meant insanity and worse for its possessor. Read More
Sword & Sorcery Favorites You Might Have Missed IV
With favorites you are always going to find others who have read those stories, and to those people I will apologize, but it surprises me Read More
Anthony M. Rud and “Ooze”
To a fan of Weird Tales Anthony M. Rud is the guy who kicked it all off. He wrote the lead story “Ooze” in the Read More
The Plant Monsters of ACG
ACG pre-Code horror comics did more than just vampires and werewolves (though lots of those). Five comic stories in four years featured killer plant monsters. Read More
Link: Why Mythos Movies Suck (A Lot)
The earliest Lovecraft adaptation was The Haunted Palace in 1963. Using a title of Poe’s and a plot of HPL’s, Roger Corman serves up a Read More
August Derleth in Weird Tales
August Derleth takes a lotta crap. Some of it is deserved but some of it isn’t. Like when people say Derleth wouldn’t have been in Read More
Link: Bio of a Mythos Sorcerer
Many of the students of the arcane that inhabit Mythos tales could be called “sorcerers”. Men like John Carnaby in Clark Ashton Smith’s “The Return Read More
Link: Cosmic Mojo – Part 2
The authors of cosmic creepiness mentioned in the previous piece, “Cosmic Mojo Part 1”, were English, for Lovecraft was an anglophile of the first order. Read More
Link: Cosmic Mojo – Part 1
Critics of horror fiction have labeled Lovecraft’s brand of storytelling “cosmic” horror to differentiate it from the regular legions of werewolves and murderers that filled Read More