Atlantis by Sarah Hubacher. • Regular readers will know Leigh Wright from his Wyrd Daze creations which I've linked here many times in the past. (The same goes for his frequent Mixcloud compilations.) Leigh's wife died recently which means he now has to return to the UK from Canada where he doesn't have permanent resident status. His request for help is…

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The Book of Hyperborea (1996). Cover art by Robert H. Knox. "My Hyperborean tales, it seems to me, with their primordial, prehuman and sometimes premundane background and figures, are the closest to the Cthulhu Mythos, but most of them are written in a vein of grotesque humor that differentiates them vastly." -- Clark Ashton Smith Since re-reading Clark Ashton Smith's…

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Comets from Meyers Konversationslexikon (1885–90). • At The Daily Heller: Steven Heller reviews A Life in Ink, a new monograph about the art of Ralph Steadman. Heller is full of praise for Steadman, and discusses commissioning his work for The New York Times. But in his bewilderment at Steadman's lack of a knighthood he seems unaware of the degree to which state honours are frequently refused by Britons, especially those who position themselves in opposition to the established order.

Work-related research over the past week has had me looking for interesting 14th-century alphabets. This is a period I usually ignore in favour of the designs of the following century which tend to be a lot more florid, often to the point of illegibility. (Michael Baurenfeind’s books offer prime examples.) Medieval alphabets are more readable on the whole, once you attune yourself to the missing letters ("j", "u" and sometimes "w"), also the common occurrence of the long "s", the bar that crosses the "x", and the way that "z" will resemble a number 3.

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Poster art by Nicholas Kouninos for Procol Harum / Pink Floyd / HP Lovecraft at the Fillmore, San Francisco, 1967. • Take a break from so-called reality with Gruesome Shrewd, more queasy psychedelia by Moon Wiring Club. MWC's Ian Hodgson described his intentions to Simon Reynolds in a Reynolds roundup which notes the 20th anniversary of the Ghost Box project.

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Poster for The Phantom of the Opera, 1925. The first Universal horror film, and the best screen adaptation of Gaston Leroux's novel, was released 100 years ago this month. • "Evolution seems to have a thing for mind-bending molecules here on planet Earth. Psychedelics are more widespread in nature than you might think. These remarkable compounds, which can profoundly alter consciousness, arose repeatedly across evolutionary time, stretching back at least 65 million years.