#WyrdWednesday A painting by Philippe Druillet, who co-founded Métal Hurlant. This image is from an art book, but was originally used as the cover of Pilote No. 663 (1972).

#PhantomsFriday Not Theirs the Cypress-Arch (1951) by Clark Ashton Smith.

#WyrdWednesday The painting Atlantis (1972) by Frank Frazetta depicts a statue of an Atlantean warrior amidst partially submerged ruins.

#PhantomsFriday Traffic not with ghosts Lest if you do You find their world More real than earth to you. From: Unsought Advice (Weird Tales, May 1937) by Dorothy Quick, used as the epigraph to Requiem for a Siren: Women Poets of the Pulps (From Beyond Press, 2024). Art credit in alt text.

#WyrdWednesday Oh, the heart in my breast turned stone, and the brain froze in my skull— But I won through, I alone, and I poured my chalice full Of horrors and dooms and spells, black buds and bitter roots— From the hells beneath the hells, I bring you my deathly fruits. Credit in alt text.

Robert E. Howard Foundation eBay listings. These are the items from the collection of Barbara Barrett, a long-time member of the Foundation who passed away and bequeathed them. The auction goes to fund the necessary repairs to the Robert E. Howard House & Foundation. www.ebay.com/usr/rehfound...

#PhantomsFriday If I can raise one ghost, why I will raise And call up doomsday from behind the east. Awake then, ghostly doomsday! Throw up your monuments, ye buried men That lie in ruined cities of the wastes! From: Doomsday (1851) by Thomas Lovell Beddoes Art credit in alt text.

#WyrdWednesday A Rose For Ecclesiastes (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Nov 1963) by Roger Zelazny. A future exploration of Martian history and society with spirituality, philosophy, and culture of Earth's past as backdrop. Also a personal story of lost love. Art credit in alt text.

Lud-in-the-Mist, the capital city of the small country Dorimare, is a port at the confluence of two rivers, the Dapple and the Dawl. The Dapple has its origin beyond the Debatable Hills to the west of Lud-in-the-Mist, in Fairyland. In the days of Duke Aubrey, some centuries earlier, #BookWormSat 🧵

#BookWormSat Darrell Schweitzer wrote many stories set in a fantasy world based very loosely on the ancient Nile region. In his setting, the god of the underworld is crocodilian. Collected in The Mask of the Sorcerer (1995), Sekenre (2004) and a few in a two-volume short story collection (2020).

#PhantomsFriday The text of the poem Night Terror (Weird Tales, July 1930) by Sara Henderson Hay added to a drawing from a Stephen Fabian art collection book.

No boundaries, no limits. My artbook will be titled UNBOUND. 12+ years of maps - Coming September 2026 🧭

#WyrdWednesday "I hope...my repast won't offend a delicate stomach. I have learned that the best way to keep my health is to eat the fruits of the earth in their intended state—so much goodness is wasted in cooking and garnishing." ~ Family matriarch in Wolfland (1980) by Tanith Lee.

I Just Wanna Be Your Tugboat Captain. Two Harbors, Minnesota

#BookWormSat Conan and the Emerald Lotus (1995) by John C. Hocking. A fearsome flower is key to a sorcerous plan for conquest. Reprinted with the sequel in City of the Dead (2024). "I am the master of the Emerald Lotus. You have tasted its glorious power and felt its mortal demands..."

#PhantomsFriday Mementos (Weird Tales, May 1934) by Marie W. Linné.

#WyrdWednesday The Hill Woman (Weird Tales, October 1934) by Frances Elliot.

#BookWormSat Walter de la Mare's birthday I enjoy his eight earliest poetry collections very much. I haven't read his later collections and have read only a few of his many stories, so I need to remedy that! Art credit in alt text.

#PhantomsFriday Suspicion (Weird Tales, Nov 1953) by Harriet A. Bradfield. Art credit in alt text.

#BookWormSat Places of note, real or imagined The House of Cthulhu (1973) by Brian Lumley. One of his Primal Land stories, blending his own ancient sword-and-sorcery setting with the weird fiction mythos of other authors. Title story in this 1991 collection. Art credit in alt text.

#PhantomsFriday Art and poem credits in alt text.

François Baranger's illustrated version of The Shadow Over Innsmouth is now expected out in English in Q4 from Free League Publishing. I don't know if other shops will be selling it as well. freeleaguepublishing.com/shop/the-cal...

#PhantomsFriday Keith of Ravelston by Sydney Thompson Dobell. I don't know when this poem was first published nor if it's based on folklore. The only historical references that I found had no hint of the supernatural. This text is from the 1969 reprint of Dark of the Moon (1947).

#BookologyThursday "...a large and elaborate manse of archaic design, shrouded behind the trees of an untidy garden. The lower windows glowed with amber light: a cheerful sight for the benighted wanderer..." Book/art credit in alt text.

Doing some newspaper research and ran across this magnificent contraption. I think this should make a comeback. 24 Feb 1934, Beaumont (Texas) Journal, page 1.

#PhantomsFriday "For outside, riding the mist in ghostly majesty, a great Viking dragonship lay parallel with our compartment, its sides adorned with moisture-dripping shields. And behind those shields, spears raised in hideous salutation, ranks of armored skeletons..." Book/art credit in alt text

#WyrdWednesday Bloodchild (1984) by Octavia Butler. A young human living on a planet of aliens learns the horrifying life cycle details of the insect-like being that he has been raised with and must make a decision. This story has many fascinating issues to ponder and debate.

#BookologyThursday A few lines from Nocturnal Poet (2014) by K. A. Opperman combined with a 1976 drawing by Stephen Fabian. More information in alt text.

Coming next week in paperback and eBook: THE MAGTONE SAGA.

#BookWormSat #WorldPoetryDay The restorative power of forests and nature in The Return of the Year (1895), another poem by Archibald Lampman.

#BookWormSat #WorldPoetryDay In the Pine Groves I (1900) by Archibald Lampman.

#PhantomsFriday "Except for the figure of a man, flying, his coat flapping like broken wings, nothing stirred. Just him...and his pursuer: a second male figure, tall, utterly silent, flowing like a fog-spawned wraith not one hundred yards behind..." Story and art credit in alt text.

#BookologyThursday Dragons Elsewhere: The Fantasy Art of Jesper Ejsing (2019) features a large collection of his work, much of it from tabletop games like D&D, Magic: The Gathering, and Hearthstone. One section is devoted to dragons.

#WyrdWednesday Heroines Hellsgarde (Weird Tales, Apr 1939) by C.L. (Catherine) Moore. Jirel of Joiry must save her captive men-at-arms by bringing back an item from the ruins of a castle. A supernatural horror story in a sword-and-sorcery setting. Art credit in alt text.

#BookWormSat The Beasts and Blessings of the Hallow'd Hall (2025) by Conner Fawcett and Jack de Quidt. A very creative compendium of supernatural oddities and folk horror with great illustrations and text descriptions. It expanded on a tarot deck and is accompanied by a music track.

#PhantomsFriday Deserted House (Weird Tales, Sep 1933) by Marion Doyle.

And more about Lord Dunsany, his works and worlds by yours truly (with more Sime illustrations, of course) below wunderkammertales.blogspot.com/2025/07/beyo...

#WyrdWednesday Voyages The Terran Trade Authority books made amazing voyages seem possible. This painting by Peter Elson is from Starliners: Commercial spacetravel in 2200 AD (1980) by Stewart Cowley. It shows spacecraft of Alphatel, national spaceline of Alpha Centauri. More detail in alt text.

#BookWormSat The anthology Warlocks and Warriors (1970) included The Bells of Shoredan (1966) by Roger Zelazny, one in a series of his stories featuring a half-elf named Dilvish the Damned and a talking, metal-skinned demon horse. Art credit in alt text.

#PhantomsFriday Listening (Weird Tales, Feb 1935) by Cristel Hastings.

#WyrdWednesday Art and poem credit in alt text.

#BookWormSat Mischief-makers The Brownie stories, written and illustrated by Palmer Cox, were published in magazines and a series of books in the late 1800s and early 1900s. They used rhyming verse and many illustrations to tell new tales based on these mischievous creatures from folklore.

#PhantomsFriday Illustration by Stephen Fabian from the art book Fantasy by Fabian (1978). It was accompanied by this text: On the red hearth's reddest centre, from a blazing knot of oak, Seemed to gibe and grin this phantom when in terror I awoke; More info in alt text.

#BookologyThursday A painting by Stephen Somers from The Art of Arkham Horror (Dark Horse Books, 2021). Inspired by weird fiction stories of undersea gods and monsters by many authors.

#BookWormSat Recompense by Robert E. Howard was not published in his lifetime, but was a titled draft in his standard finished format, ready to be submitted. This text is from Collected Poetry V1 (REH Foundation Press, 2008). His skill with poems like this carried over into his prose writing.

#BookWormSat A Song of Dreams was first published by Clark Ashton Smith in The Star-Treader and Other Poems in 1912 and later modified very slightly. If I had to choose one favorite poem by him, it would be this one, since it expresses so beautifully why people read and write speculative fiction.

The Spire awakens once more in Steam Early Access on March 5, 2026! ⚔️ New characters, enemies, environments & more await you in Slay the Spire 2, the sequel to the iconic roguelike deckbuilder. Will you attempt the climb alone... or enlist the aid of your fellow adventurers?

“Hellwig's Conquest: A Tactical Game based on Chess” This book now available on Etsy and ebay. Letter-sized, perfect bound, w/ color plates, 144 pages. Etsy: www.etsy.com/listing/1619390774/hellwigs-conquest-a-tactical-game-based ebay: www.ebay.com/itm/376551975509

#WyrdWednesday Sadastor (1930) by Clark Ashton Smith. A demon tells a strange, dark tale of a doomed siren on a dead planet. This prose poem or very short story, filled with beautiful language, is almost never mentioned among his works, but is one of my favorites. Art credit in alt text.