Just a short note. I rushed into and over that Boston Globe article here (Following the footsteps of horror icon H.P. Lovecraft) – it’s nothing to write your friends about. Just one sentence popped into my sight as a bee would into an allergic person’s arm:
“The author, now viewed as perhaps the greatest
horror writer of [...]
Call him great, then
Ech-Pi-El to Klarkash-ton: I am a bore
I’d like to divert attention away from this post and to this article by Michael Dirda in the Washington Post (per http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/LovecraftScholars/) – a short, but insightful piece on one of Lovecraft’s closest buddies, Clark Ashton Smith, or Klarkash-ton, as Lovecraft transcribed the name in his regular epistolary follies. I just finished re-re-re-reading the five [...]
This needs an editor
Men & women of letters are by definition paupers. Who after all cares for decent language when all it takes to achieve a particular end is an occasional nod or some burbling sound of discontent? I have before me right now a list of copy editing rates Lovecraft fixed for himself in the early 1930s [...]
Robert H. Waugh: The Monster in the Mirror
Wanna read a real cool book on Lovecraft? How about Robert H. Waugh’s The Monster in the Mirror, published on Hippocampus Press in 2006? It’s one of the finest Lovecraft critiques ever, of all times, and easily so – well researched, on sound theory, and he’s even tackling and mastering that most notorious of Lovecraft [...]
Hello world! And my friends on all the outlying islands of ignorance!
Hello World!
I don’t think so. This (and I’m waving my arms right now) is meant to be a work log. This is not to say it’s not going to be personal – by all means, my personal life and my work have become synonyms a while ago, so inevitably they will be mingling in this [...]
