Well, here was Earth beneath him. No longer a green star high in alien skies, but warm soil, new clover so near his face he could see all the little stems and trefoil leaves, moist earth granular at their roots.—C. L. Moore, “Song in a Minor Key” “The Green Hills of Earth” is as close … Continue reading “Song in a Minor Key” (1940) by C. L. Moore→| Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein
If a man could see the end of his act, the end that comes at the far end of Time, and know what it meant—would men be greater than gods?—Editor’s opening to C. L. Moore’s “Greater Than Gods” in Astounding Jul 1939 C. L. Moore had cut her teeth on interplanetary fiction. Yet the syntax … Continue reading “Greater Than Gods” (1939) by C. L. Moore→| Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein
“You’ll find it by sunset only, my lady,” Guy of Garlot had told her with a sidelong grin marring his comely dark face. “Mists and wilderness ring it round, and there’s magic in the swamps about Hellsgarde. Magic—and worse, if legends speak truth. You’ll never come upon it save at evening.”—C. L. Moore, “Hellsgarde” in … Continue reading “Hellsgarde” (1939) by C. L. Moore→| Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein
Strange Stories (1939-1941) was one of the rivals that rose during a fantasy boom in the waning years of Farnsworth Wright’s term as editor of Weird Tales. While many of the rivals had little in the way of style to offer, there was one thing they did that WT didn’t—pay. The magazine had gone a … Continue reading “Miracle in Three Dimensions” (1939) by C. L. Moore→| Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein
Glad to hear that you & C L M are collaborating on a dual masterpiece. The result certainly ought to be powerful enough! Staging a meeting betwixt the mediaeval Jirel & the future Northwest…| Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein
This is an odd reference in one of C. L. Moore’s letters, about a story never published: Well, have just received my first flat rejection from Wright. A harmless little fable about a sorcerer…| Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein
C. L. Moore is an extremely gifted young woman of 25—a fact as well as fiction writer. Her stories are rivaled (now that Bob Howard is dead) only by Klarkash-Ton’s, & contain a highly unique el…| Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein
Glad you liked “The Dark Land”. I made the drawing a long time ago, and wrote the story so I could bring it in, with the addition of a cadaverous head and a swirl of vagueness.—C. L. Moore to H. P.…| Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein
Was there ever such a duel in the whole universe as the one between Northwest Smith and the nameless being that fought him in that Martian room?—a gripping tale by the author of “Shambleau”—E…| Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein
And WT is publishing in July either the Smith story which Wright has entitled THE COLD GREY GOD, all about a lovely Venusian named Judai, or else a Jirel story we have been revising for months. He …| Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein
I’m so glad you liked Jirel and the BLACK GOD’S KISS. You know, I never can tell when a story’s good or not. It never fails to surprise me when people are complementary. Jirel was…| Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein
And speaking of Cabell, wait till you read my May story! I hadn’t realized until I read over the proof-sheets they sent me last week how closely it follows the Cabell-Dunsany phraseology. For…| Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein
JE: Did the success of “Shambleau” generate numerous requests for additional stories? CLM: No, not really. The editor of Weird Tales, Farnsworth Wright, simply told me that he would lik…| Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein
Salutations, lecteur. Aujourd’hui, je vais te parler de l’une des nouvelles de SF et de Weird Fiction les plus connues. Shambleau, de Catherine Lucille Moore Introduction Catherine Lucille Moore, o…| Les Chroniques du Chroniqueur
