Tomes of Evil
Tomes of evil do not begin or end with H. P. Lovecraft’s most famous volume, The Necronomicon of Abdul Alhazred. His friends like Clark Ashton Read More
Tag: The King in Yellow
The Fantastic in the Argosy: 1934
If you missed the last one… 1934 was the last year of the big serials, before most of the SF/F is replaced by short stories Read More
The Fantasy Vampires of Clark Ashton Smith
The vampires of Clark Ashton Smith are something different in the pages of Weird Tales. “The Unique Magazine” had plenty of tales of the undead. Read More
December’s Shivery Hand Upon Us
December’s shivery hand upon us and you know what that means…ghost stories. Unlike my fellow North Americans I do not subscribe to October as the Read More
Link: Father Brown Goes Mythos
Spoiler Alert: This column will reveal the solution to a famous Mystery story. If you haven’t read it (shame on you!), I apologize in advance. Read More
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
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: The Yellow Nineties
I’m loving the second season of Penny Dreadful, which is set in that glorious decade known as “The Yellow Nineties.” I doubt many horror fans Read More