March 2018 – Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein
5 posts published by greyirish during March 2018| Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein
5 posts published by greyirish during March 2018| Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein
7 posts published by greyirish during August 2025| Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein
When Providence, R.I. journalist Winfield Townley Scott published his first biographical essay on H. P. Lovecraft in the Providence Journal in 1943, it was with the caveat that he had not been able to contact Lovecraft’s wife, Sonia H. Davis. After publication, they got in touch, and through Scott’s efforts Sonia’s memoir of her marriage … Continue reading Deeper Cut: The Letters of Clara Lovrien Hess→| Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein
I wrote a story once, which I don’t believe you ever saw—starting out as my story “Greater Glories” started with a man lost in the interior of a giant body, being swept into its brain-chamber and finding himself in the presence of a god whose people have almost completed their race-goal. The people are of … Continue reading “Greater Glories” (1935) by C. L. Moore→| Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein
Your scholarship is in danger, your friends aren’t human, and something ancient is awakening in the dreamlands. As reality itself becomes uncertain, questions of identity and transformation become matters of survival. Just another finals week at Miskatonic University. —Starspawn: A Miskatonic Mystery website The Lovecraft Mythos has provided the inspiration for games since the 1980s, … Continue reading Interview with Starspawn Studios→| 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
4 posts published by greyirish during February 2018| Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein
The friend whose daughter had gone to school with Asenath Waite repeated many curious things when the news of Edward’s acquaintance with her began to spread about. Asenath, it seemed, had posed as a kind of magician at school; and had really seemed able to accomplish some highly baffling marvels. She professed to be able … Continue reading “The Thing on the Cheerleader Squad” (2015) by Molly Tanzer→| Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein
Mr. Wright has accepted the new story, JULHI. (Pronounce it! I can’t.) All about a very peculiar one-eyed female of a hitherto unknown race, with an immovable mouth perpetually stretched open in a heart-shaped arch, thru which she speaks by humming in various keys and intensities. You’ve heard people make a violin talk, haven’t you? … Continue reading “Julhi” (1935) by C. L. Moore→| Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein
“Are you depressed?” I asked her. My wife had a sleep mask over her eyes but I knew she was awake from the way she was breathing. She reached a pale hand out from under the duvet and scratched at her nose, then snatched the hand back. The gesture was vaguely reptilian. I picked the … Continue reading “The Yolo Wallpaper” (2025) by Sonya Vatomsky→| 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 considerable fun, but I hadn’t considered the story is very good. Somehow it seems—along with the rest of my later … Continue reading “Black God’s Shadow” (1934) by C. L. Moore→| Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein
Eldritch Fappenings The following review is of a work that contains cartoon nudity, and some images are reproduced.Reader discretion is advised. In 2017, writer-artist Cynthia von Buhler introduced…| Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein
8 posts published by greyirish during July 2025| Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein
Now from darkness, there springs light Wall of sleep is cool and bright Wall of sleep is lying broken Sun shines in, you have awoken—Black Sabbath, “Behind the Wall of Sleep” England. August 1969. The cinema across the street was playing the Italian horror anthology film I tre volti della paura (1963, “The Three Faces … Continue reading “Behind the Wall of Sleep” (1970) by Black Sabbath→| 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
As reckoned among the race-stocks of the world, the Indian is certainly not inferior. Neither, for that matter, is the Mongolian race as a whole. It is simply our reaction against the alien and the…| 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
People have such queer ideas about private detectives.—Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye (1953) Hardboiled detective fiction has never ignored the existence of ethnic minority, BIPOC, and LGBTQ+ c…| Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein
5 posts published by greyirish during June 2025| Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein
Tune: “When I Was A Lad” (H. M. S. Pinafore)—Anne Braude, “The Ballad of Conan” in Niekas #31 (1983), 41 The first fandom of Robert E. Howard’s Conan of Cimmeria arose…| Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein
So you’re not here to initiate me into the mysteries of the sea-mother whose faces rise and fall with the countless waves and her consort who makes the fish shoal as thick as cornfields in th…| Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein
I always preferred to think that strong women and loving couples and flirting and passion and a hundred other delightful emotions existed, somewhere, in Lovecraft’s world, and we just didn…| Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein
Before the story begins, before the very first word, Lovecraft fans will recognize the title as the the climactic revelation of H. P. Lovecraft’s “Pickman’s Model” (1926). T…| Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein
After the death of H. P. Lovecraft in 1937, his friends August Derleth and Donald Wandrei (founders of Arkham House), and R. H. Barlow (Lovecraft’s literary executor) began a concerted effort…| Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein
I shall watch for the tale, “Medusa’s Coil,” you mentioned. Regardless of the author, if you instilled into the tale some of the magic of your own pen, it cannot fail to fascinate…| Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein
Keener news-followers, however, wondered at the prodigious number of arrests, the abnormally large force of men used in making them, and the secrecy surrounding the disposal of the prisoners. No tr…| Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein
Most interesting of all was a glancing reference to the strange jewellery vaguely associated with Innsmouth. It had evidently impressed the whole countryside more than a little, for mention was mad…| Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein
Hazel Heald’s story in the current W.T. is very good. —Clark Ashton Smith to H. P. Lovecraft, 7 Mar 1934, Dawnward Spire, Lonely Hill 538 “Winged Death” is pretty much a ghost-written Ech-Pi-El-ism…| Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein
I’ve just ghost-written a tale for a client in a fashion amounting virtually to original composition—about a waxwork museum or chamber of horrors where there is a rumour that not all of the fabulou…| Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein
ZEALIA BISHOP is not primarily a writer of supernatural tales; her preference is for romantic fiction, of which she has written and published far more than she has in the genre of the weird. Her fa…| Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein
I’ve seen the new Wonder Stories, & agree that it seems to be improving. A revision client of mine has a story in the current issue—”The Man of Stone”—in which you may possibl…| Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein
[…] his Secret Seed, Cthylla, in whose darkling womb he planned to rise up again one day reborn, had been threatened. – Brian Lumley, The Transition of Titus Crow (1975) As with “…| Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein
The “Elizabeth Berkeley” of “The Crawling Chaos” is Winifred Virginia Jackson—a now fairly well known poetess, formerly active in amateur journalism. The sketch (it is scarc…| Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein
I am very sorry that I did not keep his letters, but moving around from place to place made it impossible. As some of them were personal I did not wish them to be around for others to read perhaps …| Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein
Dear Mr. Lovecraft :— Your letter of the 20th just arrived. I shall be only too glad to have your friend have The Mound for sale or to see—especially that since it offers an opportunity to partiall…| Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein
But first I must explain that my husband, Fritz Leiber, Jr, son of the Shakespearian actor, (who often played in Providence in time past) met Lovecraft through myself and formed a delightful friend…| Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein
I have, I may remark, been able to secure Mr. Baird’s acceptance of two tales by my adopted son Eddy, which he had before rejected. Upon my correcting them, he profest himself willing to prin…| Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein
I found Lovecraft diffident but very gallant, with a gallantry of an era we only read about in mid-Victorian literature. In our conversation we discusses among things my short novel, “The Mou…| Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein
I grew up reading the works of H. P. Lovecraft. I loved every fish monster, evil cult and doomed protagonist, frankly finding his affected writing style and weird creatures intrinsically hilarious …| Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein
Thirteen women in shadowy Innsmouth, brides of arranged marriages to the inhuman denizens of the neighboring reef, are bound by the will of their male relatives, until they pursue revenge. —J. M. Y…| Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein
New England Conservatory of Music Yearbook, 1920 The Boston Globe, 27 Mar 1919 Alice Marion Hamlet was born 24 April 1897, the only child of Lanna and Grace Hamlet, in Boston, Massachusetts, where …| Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein
My first memories are of the summer of 1892—just before my second birthday. We were then vacationing in Dudley, Mass., & I recall the house with its frightful attic water-tank & my rocking-…| Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein
I first met him at the Boston Convention when the amateur journalists gathered there for this conclave, in 1921. I admired his personality but frankly, at first, not his person. As he was always tr…| Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein
Harry Houdini, the great illusionist, escapist, and debunker of spiritualists was born into a Jewish family in the Austro-Hungarian empire in 1874 as Erik Weisz. In 1878, the family emigrated to th…| Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein
Four years ago Hazel Heald made her bow to the readers of Weird Tales with an eery story called “The Horror in the Museum,” which established her at once among the most popular writers …| Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein
Glad you enjoyed the Witch House and Museum story. Another tale which I revised for the “Museum” author, and which Wright has accepted, brings in von Juntz and his black book as almost the central …| Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein
1921 The Boston Post 1920 The Boston Post 1909 The Idaho Statesman The details of Mrs. Miniter’s long career—a career inseparable from amateur journalism after her sixteenth year—will doubtle…| Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein
H. P. Lovecraft spent most of his adult life in genteel poverty, slowly diminishing the modest inheritance that had come down to him from his parents and grandparents. He had no cash to spare on ex…| Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein
I see that I need to don armour against a curious fate that concerns itself with bringing loss to me. The loss of Mr. Lovecraft’s letters also touches you. May the California sunshine restore…| Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein
All this rivalry, however, was conducted with the utmost good humour, Mrs. Sawyer, for the National, insisted that her society was larger and older—that the United was merely a smaller, later…| Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein
S. Lilian Middleton-McMullen, whose works are now distinguished by publication in poetry magazines all over the country, is a discovery of Winifred V. Jackson’s, and an added plume in the cap of th…| Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein
Mary Faye Durr was born on 17 May 1893, the youngest of three children born to Abraham and Mary Durr. Like many women of the period, details of her early life are sketchy. Is it known that she grad…| Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein
