If you love an audiobook, GIRL IN THE CREEK is on sale for just $4.99 at libro.fm/audiobooks/9... !

"[...] Norton's Jaelithe, Bradley's Jaelle, and Russ's Jael—all of which might prove to be echoes of C. L. Moore's Jirel of Joiry." —Thelma J. Shinn, WORLDS WITHIN WOMEN: MYTH AND MYTHMAKING IN FANTASTIC LITERATURE BY WOMEN (1986), 190

Man, 'I Am Providence' is such a massive bio. Required reading for anyone trying to actually understand Lovecraft.

Book catalogue project, entry 500: I AM PROVIDENCE (2010, Hippocampus Press) by S. T. Joshi. 2 vols. Clean pages, some wear.

This week on Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein we look at "In Their Own Voices" (2025) by Lavie Tidhar from the NEW WEIRD & DECADENT journal, and meditate on the Innsmouth diaspora. deepcuts.blog/2025/12/06/i...

My presentation about H. P. Lovecraft's English ancestors is part of this--in the "Streaming Extras" section watch.eventive.org/hplfilmfesti..., along with author readings by Nathan Carson, @andrewsfuller.com, Frances Pai and @johnshirley2024.bsky.social! If you sign up, you can watch for free.

"Accordingly, I became a Mohammedan for a time, and dabbled in Buddhism; finding it just as easy (or as hard) to accept any of these as to accept Christianity." —H. P. Lovecraft to James Larkin Pearson, 3 Aug 1919, LRKO 317

HPLovecraft# film fest offers a host of readings and presentations of the WEIRD FICTION & POETRY FROM HELL variety. Here's an eight minute one of ME performing four rhyming weird poems from my new collection Ghost Confessions. Register & it's free! Many readers! watch.eventive.org/hplfilmfesti...

Movie Review: “TROLL 2” needs more surprises–and more monster mashing. https://ow.ly/g7rv50XCZT1

On this day in Horror History, THE WICKER MAN was released in 1973.

On this day in Horror History, VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED premiered in the U.S. in 1960.

On this day in Horror History, HOUSE OF DRACULA was released in 1945.

I finally found a good copy of Dreams from the Witch House: Female Voices of Lovecraftian Horror, edited by Lynne Jamneck, that didn’t cost as much as a used car.

Just another cloudy and cold night in the old city. #ComicSky

Controversial take of the day: As a Starfleet officer, the only correct action in the Kobyashi Maru is to not enter the neutral zone. Starfleet would have a duty to maintain galactic peace by not violating neutral zone treaties

“What you do not know and must be told is that my command orders on this subject are precise and inviolable. No act, no provocation. Will be considered sufficient reason to violate the zone.” Capt. James T. Kirk, Stardate: 1709.2 This is correct. ⬇️

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‘The Craft’ 📖 Artist: Randi Lang 🖤

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This week I have been mostly thinking about The Roman Empire About halfway through I, Claudius (1976) and it is every bit as brilliant as I had heard. Can see the clear inspiration for Game of Thrones, although I, Claudius is by far its superior Augustus' (Brian Blessed) death scene is incredible

Writer/Director Gareth Edwards’s indie sci-horror thriler ‘Monsters’ starring Scoot McNairy and Whitney Able stomped its way into theaters in the UK on this day in 2010 👥 🗺️ 👾 #OTD "𝙸'𝚖 𝚐𝚘𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚘 𝚋𝚎 𝚊 𝚖𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚘𝚛𝚘𝚕𝚘𝚐𝚒𝚜𝚝, 𝚋𝚎𝚌𝚊𝚞𝚜𝚎 𝚒𝚝'𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚘𝚗𝚕𝚢 𝚓𝚘𝚋 𝚠𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝙸 𝚌𝚊𝚗 𝚋𝚎 𝚠𝚛𝚘𝚗𝚐 𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚢 𝚍𝚊𝚢, 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝚐𝚎𝚝 𝚏𝚒𝚛𝚎𝚍."

Re-skeeting for the afternoon crowd. This is very much one of those where if you know the stories behind the stories, you have a deeper appreciation of the story. But if you know the real life stories behind the stories behind the stories, you find new and unfathomed horrors.

Choose 50 of your favorite comic book artists. One per day for 50 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews. Day 16: Norm Breyfogle

Choose 50 of your favorite comic book artists. One per day for 50 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews. Day 15: Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird

Oh, I love this.

LEGO STRANGER THINGS 5 Creel House Set Takes Us to the Upside Down nerdist.com/article/lego...

Remembering Desi Arnaz, who died OTD in 1986 at the age of 69. When he produced Rod Serling's script "The Time Element" for his DESILU PLAYHOUSE, the viewer response was so overwhelming it convinced CBS to greenlight THE TWILIGHT ZONE.

Ok thanks. I’ll have a peruse of that article in a bit One final question, can you recommend any definitive non-fiction book on the history/development of cosmic horror?

There's no such thing as a definitive book, but probably the most extensive at this point is Joshi's 2-volume Unutterable Horror: A History of Supernatural Fiction. Lot of book, but really covers a swathe of literary history.

Anything. I don't want to talk about my job. Ask me about Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, C. L. Moore, the most fucked up pulp story I've ever read, the book I wrote five years ago that still isn't published, the terrible erotic novel I posted to a fanfiction site. Anything except my profession.

I’d say both of Gabino Iglesias’s most recent novels meet the brief here

I highly recommend "Seaton's Aunt" by Walter de la Mare, "The Night Ocean" by R.H. Barlow (lightly revised by Lovecraft), "The Man Whom the Trees Loved" by Algernon Blackwood, Caitlin Kiernan's Tales of Pain and Wonder, and, uh...L'Avventura

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Despite everything… it’s still you.

Once upon a time, people made fuckin movies!

The monster roll call is the most precious fucking thing I’ve ever seen 😂

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Post something random or have an awful December

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#PhantomsFriday again tomorrow, of course. I look forward to further fear-filled and fascinating #ghost stories old and new; #folklore; art; poems and bloodcurdling info on haunted sites. @phantomsfriday.bsky.social is the place to go. #BookChatWeekly #booksky #artsky #legends #haunted

Today is the 56th anniversary of the first performance of Mahna Mahna on Sesame Street. You’re familiar with it by now, of course, but... well, it never hurts to be reminded, does it?