Hotels are fundamentally weird places and the sense of unease they prompt is powerful fuel for weird stories. Even before we consider aspects of the uncanny, and the hotel in weird fiction, the ver…| Precast Reinforced Concrete Heart
A few months back, I watched the 1940 film The House of the Seven Gables. I’ve long meant to read it not only because of its reputation but because of H. P. Lovecraft’s admiration of it. So, after watching the… Continue reading →| MarzAat
Delayed, but here is the subject of this week’s subject of discussion by the Weird Tradition group over at LibraryThing. Review: “The Two Musics”, Michael Cisco, 2024. Illustration by Natalie Foss …| MarzAat
A Lakelands setting post| Advantage on Arcana
Contributor David Hambling sent me a review copy of this one. As usual, it jumped the review queue. Review: Tales of Shub-Niggurath, 2025. Cover by David Dodd There’s an obvious motif and plot elem…| MarzAat
After finishing Douglas Wynne’s SPECTRA series a while back, I picked this one up because it’s another detective story with fantastical elements. Review: The Wind in My Heart, Douglas Wynne, 2020. Wynne’s mystical murder mystery is short at a 118… Continue reading →| MarzAat
For various reasons, I haven’t done one of these for a while: a look at what The Weird Tradition group is discussing over at LibraryThing. Review: “The Pandemonium Waltz”, Jeffrey Ford, 2023. Our narrator starts right out telling us directly… Continue reading →| MarzAat
Penny does not expect to hear the roar of an invisible dragon on the path on the edge of a potato field. It takes a moment for her to think to look up. The hot air balloon passing above her head is too low and too large. Its white sphere stands out sharply against dense […]| Precast Reinforced Concrete Heart
Prismatic Wasteland, perhaps on behalf of Marcia B. of Traverse Fantasy, has announced an Appendix N (or other letter) blog bandwagon. An Appendix N, I only recently learned, is a list of works that a TTRPG takes inspiration from, so named for the Appendix N in an early edition of Dungeons & Dragons. As it happens, I already have a list of non-fiction works that influence my playing and writing; it makes enough sense to make a list of fiction influences, too.| Advantage on Arcana
Julius Schwartz| On An Underwood No. 5
Salutations, lecteur. Aujourd’hui, je vais te parler d’une longue nouvelle du Maître de Providence, à savoir Les Montagnes Hallucinées, de H. P. Lovecraft Introduction Howard Phillips Lovecraft est…| Les Chroniques du Chroniqueur
