A reviewer once claimed that this book was an effort to re-frame WEIRD TALES centered on Robert E. Howard instead of Lovecraft. Which wasn't really the intent. www.amazon.com/Weird-Talers...

Adaptations of the movies too.

Collect them all. #StarTrek

The Atlantic claims American kids are getting "dumber" because "progressives" have stopped caring about educational standards, so we must reimpose Republican mandatory testing policies--as though half the country's schools aren't run by Republicans. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

There was a sequel to this story. "The Witch of the Willows" (1931) by Lord Dunsany was first published in THE TRAVEL TALES OF MR. JOSEPH JORKENS

I want to share one of my favorite of Lord Dunsany's Jorkens stories. These were the archetypical "club tales" - stories told over a glass of whiskey, which might just be tall tales, but which you wanted to believe. "Mrs. Jorkens" (1930), first published as "The Mermaid's Husband"

Robert E. Howard deserves a book in the Library of America.

Glimpses of the Unknown has one of the meanest ghost stories I've ever read:

"A Futile Ghost", in which the sight of a spectral nun hangs in the background of a marriage drama until the punchline: the nun is an omen of the spinster fate of our heroine, who is crippled when she falls back in fright at seeing that the nun is *her*, after which of course she'll never be married

My Deeper Cut on Lovecraft & the Shaver Mystery was cited in a PhD dissertation: "Atmospheric War and the Fantastic: André Breton, H.P. Lovecraft, and Richard S. Shaver" by Henry Ward escholarship.org/content/qt2c...

"Things, of course, would continue to worsen before they got better—if they ever got better again." —Roger Zelazny, A NIGHT IN THE LONESOME OCTOBER, 9 Oct

My review of Ancient Aliens S21E14 “Aliens in Our Midst”--a total embarrassment in which Travis Taylor humiliates himself by claiming some balloons are actually a Grey alien flying with a jetpack. www.jasoncolavito.com/ancient-alie...

I have the best friends, as demonstrated, in this case, by the fact that one of them sent me this great postcard and one of those pressed pennies from the Flatwoods Monster Museum.

"I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept." ANGELA DAVIS

CANDLE COVE (a favorite from the great creepypasta series that was CHANEL ZERO)

Feeling a little morose. 1 like = 1 line from Robert E. Howard's letters to Novalyne Price, 25 Feb 1936 With commentary. 0: Dear Novalyne:

Drop something SKELETAL

The romantic fantasy drama ‘Somewhere In Time’ starring Christopher Reeve, Jane Seymour, Christopher Plummer, and, VERY briefly, William H. Macy was released to theaters in the US this week in 1980. 🖼️ ⏰ 💞 #OTD "𝙿𝚕𝚎𝚊𝚜𝚎, 𝚍𝚘𝚗'𝚝 𝚕𝚎𝚊𝚟𝚎. 𝚈𝚘𝚞 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚗𝚘 𝚒𝚍𝚎𝚊 𝚑𝚘𝚠 𝚏𝚊𝚛 𝙸'𝚟𝚎 𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚋𝚎 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚢𝚘𝚞."

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Drop something SKELETAL

Why, yes. I DO read Sutter Cane.

MATCH BOX BATS including vintage Japanese design & c. 1900 vampire bat. #Bats associated with darkness ironically become the bringers of light!! In many Asian countries they symbolise good luck #31DaysofHalloween

Skeletal Warrior by Mike Mignola and Eric Powell #HorrorArt

Man, you don't ask much. Okay, so the idea of a multi-ethnic, multi-national, international criminal organization that depends on a secret, communal primordial religion of non-white peoples draws obvious influences from Sax Rohmer's FU MANCHU novels & Robert W. Chambers' THE SLAYER OF SOULS (1920).

WEIRD TALES's precursors (THE BLACK CAT, THRILL STORY) and rivals (GHOST STORY, STRANGE TALES OF MYSTERY AND TERROR, STRANGE STORIES, TALES OF MAGIC AND MYSTERY, etc.) don't get a tenth of the attention as WT itself does, but play a key part in the history of weird fiction.

Bad brain day. Ask me questions. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, C. L. Moore, pulp magazines.

Fun story: in 1920 the Irish Republic loaned the Bolsheviks $25,000, who gave them as collateral the Romanov family jewels. For three decades, until the loan was repaid, these jewels were kept secret behind a fireplace in an unassuming house: 15 Marino Crescent—the birthplace of Bram Stoker.

Telluride Horror Show is known for their literary programming, and this year's lineup is a veritable roll call of the best horror authors working today.

#NowWatching ‘The Night Flier’ (1997) 📰 🛩️ 🧛🏼‍♂️ “𝙽𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝚋𝚎𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚟𝚎 𝚠𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚙𝚞𝚋𝚕𝚒𝚜𝚑 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚗𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝚙𝚞𝚋𝚕𝚒𝚜𝚑 𝚠𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚋𝚎𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚟𝚎.” #100DaysOfHorror (75/100) 🖤

I get so depressed by people posting pics of Peter Haining anthologies. He was a FRAUD - attributing stories to the wrong people, making shit up that's still read as gospel, passing shit off, The damage he caused is still being uncovered and dealt with to this day. I write about this in #HALLOWEIRD

It's #HALLOWEIRD season! 'When Hell Laughed' was written by Christine Campbell Thomson (1897 - 1985) under her pseudonym Flavia Richardson. She also edited the NOT AT NIGHT series. M.R. James was *not* a fan of them (see 4th picture). #halloween #spooktober

"Our story is called 'The Howling Man' by Charles Beaumont. It's designed for the young in heart but the strong of nerve." — Serling's next-week promo for Twilight Zone's "The Howling Man" #S2E5

The return of my imaginary Horror Anthology series.

rolling into october...

If anyone wants to hear a bunch of Robert E. Howard scholars (including me) talk about his horror stories... www.youtube.com/watch?v=APDd...

Me getting momentarily excited as I look down the list of horror movies being added to streaming services this month: “…. I already own all these on blu ray.”

In our latest Hollow Earth Expedition, we travel not merely underground but through time, as we discuss Morlocks, beetle people, and the long shadow of H. P. Lovecraft.

Sooo… this is happening 😁 So excited to see my and @writerras.bsky.social baby coming to life (so to speak) on the small screen - check out all the details on @deadline.com deadline.com/2025/10/afte...

Sad to hear about the passing of the Michelangelo of Movie posters, RENATO CASARO. The Man painted so many iconic posters, specially in the 70s/80s: CONAN, TERMINATOR, DUNE, TOTAL RECALL, DANCE WITH THE WOLVES, BLOW OUT, FLASH GORDON, RAMBO, NEVER-ENDING STORY, and the list goes on and on. 1/2

This is talked about less than it should be - but Tolkien and Lewis were amazing and timeless writers because they were fervent readers of good books and literature.

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I want to talk about this exchange. There are some factual things wrong with it (Lovecraft did not hate fun), and something unsettling about trying for schadenfreude against someone dead and far beyond suffering. But mostly I think folks have a fundamental misunderstanding about Lovecraft and porn.

Not reading all these obviously, but I’ve made a pile of spooky season books to grab from. Mostly classics. I expect to read one or two of these and veer off entirely as usual… #horror #booksky #halloween #gothic #spookyseason 🩸📚💙

Must admit, I would never have guessed King for a du Maurier fan, but good for him for being One Of Us. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

About to hit 80k on this novel and I can see the end from here, so I’m allowing myself to think about that awkward process of asking for blurbs. Anyway, in the same boat? Hope this helps! (And please sign up!) gabinoiglesias.substack.com/p/asking-for...

If you see this, post a robot.🤖

We live in a culture that has internalized the idea that collective effort of any kind is socialism and a threat to capitalism.

I think we are vastly overestimating Kirk's popularity and influence, and it will be interesting to compare Whitaker's views in the Atlantic with my analysis, which will be published in a rival magazine tomorrow.

I want to share one of my favorite and most obscure of Lord Dunsany's stories. This one runs a bit long, but has THREE illustrations from two newspapers, when we get to them. 0: This is a story Jorkens told me one day.

The Night Flier (1997) 🎥 Directed by Mark Pavia Two reporters for a tabloid magazine set out to find a vampire who travels by private plane killing victims in rural airports. #FilmSky