Alice at R’lyeh on YouTube
MorganScorpion has put her reading of Alice at R’lyeh up on her YouTube channel. I’ve embedded the reading here, but her channel’s well worth a visit for her readings of Lovecraft, William Hope...
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IT by Stephen King
IT was one of the major reading events of my teens. As well as being the first Stephen King book I read as it came out (in paperback, anyway) right when I was in the grip of my first enthusiasm for...
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The Insanity of Jones and other tales by Algernon Blackwood
Algernon Blackwood, photo by Douglas Of all those early-20th century weird writers (Arthur Machen, M R James, Lord Dunsany, H P Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith), Algernon Blackwood seems the most...
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Wizardry and Wild Romance by Michael Moorcock
I’d like all the writers I like to like each other. But writers, self-centred and individualistic as cats, are often the worst at being objective about other writers. There’s too much stepping on each...
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Demons by Daylight by Ramsey Campbell
I’ve always been fascinated by the moments when artists and writers first find themselves, when they move out from the shadow of early, formative influences to speak with their own voice. Ramsey...
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Visions from Brichester by Ramsey Campbell
Visions from Brichester aims to collect all of Ramsey Campbell’s Lovecraftian fiction that came after (or was not included in) his first, extremely Lovecraftian, collection, The Inhabitant of the Lake....
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H P Lovecraft’s dark city muse
What happens when a fantasy writer encounters one of their own creations? In a sense, this is what happened to H P Lovecraft when, in 1924, he set out for a two-year stay in New York. As related in his...
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The Television Crossover Universe podcast interview
I’m very flattered to have been interviewed by the lovely people over at the the Television Crossover Universe podcast. This kicked off because of my poem, “Alice at R’lyeh”, which fits into the...
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The Searching Dead by Ramsey Campbell
cover to The Searching Dead, art by Les Edwards Set in 1952 and 1953, The Searching Dead (the first volume in a projected trilogy, The Three Births of Daoloth) starts with young Dominick Sheldrake...
View ArticleAlice at R’lyeh on YouTube
MorganScorpion has put her reading of Alice at R’lyeh up on her YouTube channel. I’ve embedded the reading here, but her channel’s well worth a visit for her readings of Lovecraft, William Hope...
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IT by Stephen King
IT was one of the major reading events of my teens. As well as being the first Stephen King book I read as it came out (in paperback, anyway) right when I was in the grip of my first enthusiasm for...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Insanity of Jones and other tales by Algernon Blackwood
Algernon Blackwood, photo by Douglas Of all those early-20th century weird writers (Arthur Machen, M R James, Lord Dunsany, H P Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith), Algernon Blackwood seems the most...
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Wizardry and Wild Romance by Michael Moorcock
I’d like all the writers I like to like each other. But writers, self-centred and individualistic as cats, are often the worst at being objective about other writers. There’s too much stepping on each...
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The Height of the Scream by Ramsey Campbell
The Height of the Scream, Millington (1978). Cover design by Lorie Epstein. Ramsey Campbell’s third collection, The Height of the Scream, is less of a defining moment than his second, Demons By...
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Providence by Alan Moore
Providence issue 1, art by Jacen Burrows Halfway through the run of Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows’s 12-issue comic, Providence, I re-read all of Lovecraft’s stories (as well as S T Joshi’s monumental...
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Born to the Dark by Ramsey Campbell
Born to the Dark from PS Publishing, cover by Les Edwards The second book in Campbell’s Three Births of Daoloth trilogy is set thirty years on from the first. Dominic Sheldrake, a child in The...
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You’re All Alone/The Sinful Ones by Fritz Leiber
The Sinful Ones, Pocket Books, cover by Michael Whelan What if the universe was one big machine, and human beings merely parts of it, unconsciously playing their roles, day in, day out? And what if,...
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The Way of the Worm by Ramsey Campbell
The Way of the Worm, cover art by Les Edwards The concluding book in Ramsey Campbell’s Three Births of Daoloth trilogy brings things up to the present day (the previous two being set in the early 1950s...
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Lovecraft and Trauma
Earlier this year I read Bessel van der Kolk’s book on the effects and treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, The Body Keeps the Score (2014). Its description of what happens to the brain under...
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The Witch-Cult in Western Europe by Margaret Murray
Like Jessie Weston’s From Ritual to Romance, Margaret Murray’s The Witch-Cult in Western Europe (1921) is an academic book in part inspired by Frazer’s Golden Bough, and more notable today for its...
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