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The Actual Star by Monica Byrne (SF book review)

‘The Actual Star’ is one of those books that tries to tell multiple stories at once, intertwining them and using

If the titular character, Professor Quanderhorn, immediately suggests Bernard Quatermass, you’d not be far off the inspiration for the BBC

‘The Necronomicon’ was, of course, a fictional book first used by HP Lovecraft in a short story, ‘The Nameless City’,

As one of the foremost exponents of Lovecraft scholarship, Robert Waugh sagely kicks off this impressive study by asking that

Diving into a comic-book series with the final collection is probably not the best approach, and to be fair to

Set in the early 1960s, ‘Creature Feature’ kicks off in a Chicago TV studio where Kathy Anderson is playing Vivacia

From the striking front cover painting of Cthulhu literally eating the world through to the mind-flayer smoking a pipe on

When it comes to the deeper criticism of HP Lovecraft, there’s little out there to match Robert H. Waugh. What

In 1927, an essay was published in ‘The Recluse’ magazine in which its author, HP Lovecraft, described the development of

Each year, the ‘Lovecraft Annual’ collects various essays, reviews and articles by or about H.P. Lovecraft. As such, it’s a