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H. P. Lovecraft wrote weird fiction and cosmic horror, including The Shadow Out of Time. His stories and ideas have also prompted adaptations, criticism and new fiction.
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Stuart Gordon's From Beyond opened forty years ago this weekend. We look back at the Resonator, the slime, Barbara Crampton's finest hour and…
Of all the volumes in this series, ‘Collected Essays Volume 1: Amateur Journalism’ was the one for which I had the least sense…
In a recent episode of the excellent ‘The Good Friends of Jackson Elias’ podcast, one of the presenters recalled a situation where a…
For all his fame today, HP Lovecraft’s recognition as a great writer was a long time coming. In ‘The Recognition of HP Lovecraft’,…
In some ways, this volume of the excellent perhaps even essential ‘Collected Essays’ series is the most difficult to review objectively. While HP…
Before he published his fiction in the amateur press, H.P. Lovecraft wrote his own astronomy journal and had pieces published in local newspapers.…
Every year, the ‘Lovecraft Annual’ brings together a collection of critical essays about HP Lovecraft. There’s no overall theme as such, so each…
As its name suggests, the ‘Lovecraft Annual’ is published every year and presents a variety of essays from a range of authors. In…
Famously, more interested in the architectural atmosphere of a place than the people who lived there, Lovecraft was surprising well-travelled, albeit within the…
The first thing to understand about this curious book, ‘A Monster For Many: Talking With H P Lovecraft’, is that Robert Waugh is…
While Lovecraft isn’t today well-known as a poet, in his time he wrote a great deal of verse in a variety of styles.…
As one of the foremost exponents of Lovecraft scholarship, Robert Waugh sagely kicks off this impressive study by asking that most crucial of…
