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SENSOR SWEEP: Lovecraft’s Imitators, Byproducts of Modernization, Globalizing Genres, and Subverted Stereotypes
Wednesday , 11, May 2016 Sensor Sweep 8 CommentsAppendix N (Zak S.) Lovecraft, Nerds And The Uses of Ick — “These sheltered, life-phobic souls: shy, nervous, fragile, conflict-averse, fastidious, introverted bookworms, whose main social outlet is nerd conventions, with their small circle of gentle hobbyist correspondents are, ironically, imitating Lovecraft because they haven’t read Lovecraft, or haven’t learned anything from reading him. They aren’t […]
Robert E. Howard and H. P. Lovecraft on Immigration
Sunday , 14, February 2016 Uncategorized 3 Comments“You are right in your denunciations of unrestricted immigration. You are fortunate in having lived in a district apart from the mongrel swarms.” Robert E. Howard to H. P. Lovecraft Robert E. Howard’s correspondence with H. P. Lovecraft covered weird fiction, history, and current events. One item that came up was immigration. By the time […]
A Beautiful Friendship: Lovecraft’s Induction into the WEIRD TALES Roster
Friday , 12, February 2016 Appendix N 2 CommentsThanks to the tireless efforts of SFFAudio, a smorgasbord of hard to find information about the early days of the weird fiction scene is freely available for anyone that wants to dig through it. Among the many treasures hidden in the scans from Weird Tales magazine are H. P. Lovecraft’s first several letters to that iconic […]
Maria Popova at Brain Pickings has uncovered a fascinating piece by H. P. Lovecraft: the advice he gave to aspiring writers in the January 1920 issue of The United Amateur. His praise for the King James Bible is especially striking: It is also important that cheaper types of reading, if hitherto followed, be dropped. Popular magazines inculcate […]
Sensor Sweep: Lovecraft’s Terror, Damon Knight’s Charity, the Great Rewriting, and Dour-faced Old Men
Monday , 18, January 2016 Sensor Sweep 4 CommentsThe Pulps (Cirsova) Quick Musings on the Depiction of Women in Science Fiction — “I can’t remember the names of all the bad black and white sci-fi flicks from the 50s I’ve watched with my dad, but for some reason while Hollywood was content to again and again show us shrieking lady scientists who are […]
This newly discovered Lovecraft letter is quite the find. Even better, you don’t have to travel to some New England area university library to get a look at it. (I’ve noticed that people with a grossly batrachian aspect tend to trail me when I’m in that neck of the woods anyway.) That’s right, the whole thing […]
RETROSPECTIVE: The Complete Cthulhu Mythos Tales by H. P. Lovecraft
Monday , 25, May 2015 Appendix N 4 CommentsSPOILER WARNING: Before we start this one, let me say that if you have not read Lovecraft’s Mythos stories, you need to stop reading me and start reading him. I was irked at first by the fact that this particular volume did not put the tales in the order in which they were published. However reading […]
Sensor Sweep: Wizards of the Coast, D.C. Comics, Kull, Tolkien, Bradbury
Monday , 22, April 2024 Sensor Sweep Leave a commentSword & Sorcery (Echoes of Crom): Join me and co-host, Matthew Knight as we discuss the Elak of Atlantis tale “Dragon Moon” by Henry Kuttner. This is the story that inspired the Cauldron Born song, “Dragon Throne”. Conan (Sprague de Camp Fan): “Hyborian Names” is an article by L. Sprague de Camp that appeared in […]
Baen’s “Hell” series edited by Janet Morris ran for seven anthologies and four novels from 1986 to 1989. I remember the series and resisted reading or buying them when they came out. The idea did not appeal to me. The idea is sort of like Philip Jose Farmer’s “Riverworld” series that when a person dies […]
Sensor Sweep: Poul Anderson, Prince Valiant Game, Blue Sonja, Ballantine Fantasy
Monday , 15, April 2024 Sensor Sweep 1 CommentScience Fiction (Type Bar Magazine): A recent Washington Post articleindicated that only 12% of the reading public were interested in reading science fiction. A perusal of bestseller lists for science fiction shows an even more alarming truth: the science fiction books that do sell are a shrinkingly small number of reprints, classics and novels that […]
Sensor Sweep: Bad Books, Ramsey Campbell, Weird Tales
Monday , 8, April 2024 Sensor Sweep Leave a commentReading (John C. Wright): Readers who do not want to read a curmudgeon (me) being curmudgeonly, please go away. This is not a review or a philosophical analysis. No attempt at balance or fairness has been made: the following consists of merely a description of negative reactions. These are some books I just could not […]
H. P. Lovecraft (Aeon): Lovecraft honed these elements through his short stories (along with two novellas and a single novel), developing a unique version of the weird fiction pioneered by authors such as Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Machen and M R James. However, Lovecraft did not enjoy mainstream success during his lifetime. Fantasy (Sprague de […]