Here are the comics we added to our library collection in July (yes, I'm way behind; I'll be catching up over the next several days...): Adachi, Mitsuru. Tatchi = Touch vols. 2, 7 / Tōkyō : Shōgakukan, 1992-1994. Adams, Scott, 1957- Stick to drawing comics, monkey brain! : cartoonist ignores helpful advice / New York : Portfolio, 2007. Akimoto, Osamu, 1952- Kochira Katsushika-ku Kameari...
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There's nothing manlier than H. P. Lovecraft's horror tales and especially that of Cthulhu...unless it takes this version. The Adventures of Little Cthulhu Forwarded my direction from the wife, this is a great video which carves the tales of H. P. Lovecraft just a wee bit differently. I hope you enjoy it!
To quote myself: "When the paintings move, so should you." (Moving photographs should also be avoided at all costs.) All Horror Masters files are PDFs. Gertrude Atherton, "The Bell in the Fog" (Literary Gothic) E. F. Benson, "The Cat" (Horror...
Short stories from the anthology, Lovecraft Unbound, edited by Ellen Datlow, will provide some of my horror-themed reading moving into this Halloween weekend. This 336-page book carries the following description: The stories are legendary, the characters unforgettable, the world horrible and disturbing. Howard Phillips Lovecraft may have been a writer for only a short time, but the [...]
On Friday I went to an exhibit at the Fenimore Art Museum called “American’s Rome : Artists in the Eternal City 1800-1900 that spotlighted the Roman themed work of 19 th century American Artists. The exhibit included many painting of ruins and the commentary on these featured a quote from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel The Marble Faun that I really liked: “( America is) a land...
Quatable Sunday is hosted by Toni at the blog A Daily Dose of Toni On Hallowe'en the thing you must do Is pretend that nothing can frighten you An' if somethin' scares you and you want to run Jus' let on like it's Hallowe'en fun. - - - from an Early Nineteenth Century Halloween Postcard If a man harbors any sort of fear, it makes him landlord to a ghost. - - - Lloyd Douglas The oldest and strongest...
While talking about _The Raw Shark Texts_ yesterday I remembered a short story about the Necronomicon corrupting texts it was stored with - put it with a copy of Milton and *all* copies everywhere of Paradise Lost are permanently corrupted. That story I couldn't remember the name of at the time is "The Adder" by Fred Chappell, which I had in the Chaosium trade paperback anthology of Necronomicon-related...
CONTEXT! In thinking about the value of reviews beyond the consumer-guide, one thing that struck me that reviewers (can) do is provide context for the work being seen. They're not the only ones who do this, of course. CultureBot (for...
Recent events and discussions once again bring the topic of genre fiction's mainstream respectability to the forefront. So we thought it'd be timely to ask this week's panelists: Q: In your opinion, does literary science fiction and fantasy have mainstream respect? Why, if at all, does it need mainstream approval? What would such approval mean for genre fiction? Read on to see their level-setting...
{Photo and jack-o-lantern by flickr user coldways , used under a Creative Commons license .} A weekend of air travel--whose horrors are all too real to offer any of the pleasures of the season--allowed me finally to cross from Volume I to Volume II of the Library of America 's new American Fantastic Tales . The break between volumes coincides with World War II and the concomitant shift from agrarian...
From Propnomicon: The "From the Mountains of Madness" project has been underway since the start of this blog, and odds are that it will never really be finished. Every couple of weeks I think of some new item to include or a minor refinement to the existing presentation, so it steadily ...
By Brett Villarreal If you arrived to see film reviews skip down to read them. You can get to a good film download site through the search engines. You should have good luck with a search like "Online Movies Rentals"; if not then try "Unlimited Downloads" and "Movie Download Site". The Dunwich Horror: Adaptation of H. P. Lovecraft's tale in regards to wizard Stockwell's...
The Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense has been protecting America and the world from arcane and occult threats for sixty-five years. Wherever it's savage werewolves, cryptozoological horrors, or power-mad occultists, the B.P.R.D. has been there bumping back decisively against those who bump in the night. While the Bureau has been successful in [...]
The Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense has been protecting America and the world from arcane and occult threats for sixty-five years. Wherever it's savage werewolves, cryptozoological horrors, or power-mad occultists, the B.P.R.D. has been there bumping back decisively against those who bump in the night. While the Bureau has been successful in [...]