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Pulp scholar specializing in H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard. Author of SEX AND THE CTHULHU MYTHOS and WEIRD TALERS. Reader of dead people's letters. He/him. Blue checks happen to other people.

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The Robert E. Howard House & Museum in Cross Plains, TX is in need of imminent repair work to its foundations, as well as moisture and termite damage. If you can afford to give a little to help keep this bit of pulp history alive, it would be appreciated.

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Save the REH Museum
Donations collected here go directly to the Robert E. Howard Foundation, which will forward 100% of the proceeds to Project Pride in Cross Plains, Texas, to support restoration and maintenance of the ...
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Book catalogue project, day 480: H. P. Lovecraft: A Symposium (n.d. (1963), n.p.) by Fritz Leiber, Robert Bloch, Sam Russell, Arthur Jean Cox, Leland Sapiro, and August Derleth. Chapbook. Clean pages, some wear.
Book catalogue project, day 480: H. P. Lovecraft: A Symposium (n.d. (1963), n.p.) by Fritz Leiber, Robert Bloch, Sam Russell, Arthur Jean Cox, Leland Sapiro, and August Derleth. Chapbook. Clean pages, some wear. On the off-white cover: A shadowy figure waves from a graveyard, a crescent moon hanging above, a denuded tree in the background.
November 11, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Tonight's film is CURSE OF THE DEVIL (1973, "El Retorno De Walpurgis") a Paul Naschy werewolf film from Spain. This is the Vinegar Syndrom BluRay.
November 11, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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"Cna dhy gllyd llnaf lha mynnedd!"
- H. P. Lovecraft to James F. Morton, 9 Mar 1933, LJM 315
November 10, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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November 10, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Blizzard I Beside the solid river I saw the city shiver. Though life was there behind The fronts of stone, It hid and hushed; the streets alone Ran with the bugling wind. So while the blizzard swept Drifts into hils, men slept. II It was my dream that men could sleep And let the storm grow deep. Not only in the maple vein The spring mounts early: in the hand It is a sibilant ocmmand More potent than the word of rain. The snow stands back on either side, And through the highway free and wide Our vehicles of venture glide. —Catherine Moore, in Poetry.
November 10, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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November 10, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Verse of the day:

Living by night and hiding from the day
November 10, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Underappreciated deep cut of the day: an essay about Lovecraft, a mezuzah, antisemitism, and portrayal of Jewish characters in popular culture.

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The House of Rothschild (1934)
Antisemitism The following article deals explicitly with antisemitism in a historical context. Frank discussion of these matters requires the reproduction of at least some samples of antisemitic sp…
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November 10, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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I've been burned by people like this. Part of the problem, I think, is that at the low level, the actual scammers overlap with the genuinely incompetent amateurs, and you want to believe the excuses.

This is why I pay people on time, in full, & never overcommit. Never want to be that asshole.
November 10, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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"No doubt that murdered story will haunt everything I write for years to come, coloring with its dismembered theme all sorts of tales that have no connection with it whatever."
—C. L. Moore to R. H. Barlow, 12 Dec 1935
November 10, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Book catalogue project, day 479: The H. P. Lovecraft Centennial Conference Proceedings (1991, Necronomicon Press) edited by S. T. Joshi. Chapbook. Clean pages, minimal wear.
Book catalogue project, day 479: The H. P. Lovecraft Centennial Conference Proceedings (1991, Necronomicon Press) edited by S. T. Joshi. Chapbook. Clean pages, minimal wear. On the (dark red) cover: a profile silhouette of H. P. Lovecraft.
November 10, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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". . . . & may Bast, Sekhmet, & all other feline deities watch over little Peter Ivanovitch & bring him to safe (if not placid) maturity!"
- H. P. Lovecraft to Edward H. Cole, 17 Sep 1934, LAG 87
November 9, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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Package shipped from France.

All the way across the ocean.

All the way to the correct post office.

Where it was scanned by the machine and it turned out the sender had transposed two digits on the zip code.

Immediately sorted to return to sender.

No human being looked at the label.

Fhtagn me.
November 9, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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She smiles and says "I will always love you"
The deformed, inbred mother from the X-Files episode "Home"
November 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Book catalogue project, day 478: The First World Fantasy Convention: Three Authors Remember (1980, Necronomicon Press) by Robert Bloch, T.E.D. Klein, Fritz Leiber. Chapbook. Clean pages, minimal wear. With errata page.
Book catalogue project, day 478: The First World Fantasy Convention: Three Authors Remember (1980, Necronomicon Press) by Robert Bloch, T.E.D. Klein, Fritz Leiber. Chapbook. Clean pages, minimal wear. With errata page. On the cover: grey-and-white image of Lovecraft opening a book in a foggy graveyard; behind him, Edgar Allan Poe looms. Errata sheet.
November 9, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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Abusing the alt-text on this one.
Picture: A cow stares out at the sea. WHO hath desired the Sea? - the sight of salt water unbounded - The heave and the halt and the hurl and the crash of the comber wind-hounded? The sleek-barrelled swell before storm, grey, foamless, enormous, and growing Stark calm on the lap of the Line or the crazy-eyed hurricane blowing - His Sea in no showing the same - his Sea and the same 'neath each showing: His Sea as she slackens or thrills? So and no otherwise - so and no otherwise - hillmen desire their Hills! Who hath desired the Sea ? - the immense and contemptuous surges? The shudder, the stumble, the swerve, as the star-stabbing bowsprit emerges? The orderly clouds of the Trades, the ridged, roaring sapphire thereunder - Unheralded cliff-haunting flaws and the headsail's low-volleying thunder - His Sea in no wonder the same - his Sea and the same through each wonder: His Sea as she rages or stills? So and no otherwise - so and no otherwise - hillmen desire their Hills. Who hath desired the Sea? Her menaces swift as her mercies? The in-rolling walls of the fog and the silver-winged breeze that disperses? The unstable mined berg going South and the calvings and groans that declare it - White water half-guessed overside and the moon breaking timely to bare it - His Sea as his fathers have dared - his Sea as his children shall dare it: His Sea as she serves him or kills? So and no otherwise - so and no otherwise - hillmen desire their Hills. Who hath desired the Sea? Her excellent loneliness rather Than forecourts of kings, and her outermost pits than the streets where men gather Inland, among dust, under trees - inland where the slayer may slay him - Inland, out of reach of her arms, and the bosom whereon he must lay him - His Sea from the first that betrayed - at the last that shall never betray him: His Sea that his being fulfils? So and no otherwise - so and no otherwise - hillmen desire their Hills. - Rudyard Kipling, "The Sea and the Hills"
November 9, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Tonight's film is NUDE FOR SATAN (1974, "Nuda Per Satana"), a horror/exploitation movie from Italy. There are a few different cuts of this film, this is the 82-minute unrated version from Severin.
November 9, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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November 8, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Someone asked if I make any money off the blog.

No. I do not monetize the blog. No ads, no sponsorships, no Patreon. I do use Amazon affiliate links, but that's just to offset the cost of the books a little, really, and most months it doesn't pay out anything.
November 8, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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November 7, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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This week on Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein we review "Chosen" by Lyndsey Holder, from the collection SHE WALKS IN SHADOWS (2015).

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“Chosen” by Lyndsey Holder
Brown Jenkin was agitated, running circles around me, climbing up my back and crawling down into my lap, staring at me with his beady black eyes. I reached out to him tentatively and he nuzzled my …
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November 8, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Book catalogue project, day 477: The Major Works of H. P. Lovecraft: A Critical Commentary (1977, Monarch Press) by John Taylor Gatto. Chapbook. Pages tanned, cover chipped.
Book catalogue project, day 477: The Major Works of H. P. Lovecraft: A Critical Commentary (1977, Monarch Press) by John Taylor Gatto. Chapbook. Pages tanned, cover chipped. The cover is mostly red, with a black stripe set at an angle. Back cover is the mirror image of the front, although the text is different. Sizable chip out of the back cover.
November 8, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Tonight's film is BRAIN OF BLOOD (1971), a grindhouse horror film; US/Philippines co-production.
November 8, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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Hwæt, #BookSky! Free stories! A tip jar! Potential Christmas gifts! It's a cornucopia of links!

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Hwæt! My collection of historical and S&S short stories, OLD GODS AND OTHER TALES, is FREE on Kindle until Saturday night, 11:59 PM PT. Grab a copy whilst you still can! It’s understandab…
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November 7, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Unhappy brain day, so to try and stave off the gloom, a game.

1 like = 1 line from the 15 Jun 1933 letter of Robert E. Howard to H. P. Lovecraft, talking about writing, schooling, and life
November 7, 2025 at 3:23 PM