Weird:
The Three Weird Sisters
Weird Al Yankovich
Weird Tales
Also weird, as of today:
H.P. Lovecraft
- who, of course, happened to be the most important contributor to Weird Tales. When JC Henneberger founded the magazine in 1923, he likely didn’t have any categorical label in mind and used the term “weird” in one of [...]
Rather weird than…
3-2
We won. I’ve been awake since Saturday morning. My surname has just become Sleep.
Inbetween the Race Race
This is…a bad post…in a bad blogging month…that, alas, will not ascend to any heights: Saturday morning I’ll swing myself into a train to Berlin, where I’ll no doubt (!) see my beloved Nuremberg side in a sweeping win in the Cup Finals against rival Stuttgart…my fingers are so crossed for myself and the community [...]
Race and Decay (X)
Oh yes.
I began my inquiry into the topic of Race and Decay Lovecraft’s prose with the assertion that decay and also apocalypse depend on the historicality of their agents (Race and Decay I), that is: you have to somehow be on the historical timeline to be apocalyptized. I then went on into a closereading of [...]
Race and Decay (IX)
Thesis I: The Lemming
Thesis II: The Intellectual Lemming
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Thesis III: The Intellectual, Vengeful Lemming
This will be my second-to-final post on the Race and Decay chapter of my grander inquiry into Lovecraft’s use of race – I will focus on a story of his that I haven’t mentioned yet here: The Shadow over Innsmouth, written in [...]
Race and Decay (What is the Roman numeral for infinity?)
I’ll finish the Race and Decay chapter with one final, longish, grand post, and I’ll get that out that weekend. Meanwhile, Iain Gibson, in his virgin post at Also, I can kill you with my brain makes me wonder and gape when he is relegating Herbert Phillips Lovecraft [sic] into the role of a receptionist [...]
Race and Decay (VIII)
Over at Table of Malcontents, John Brownlee makes an excellent case for the obligatory inclusion of a Cthulhu rubber mask into the preparations for your next date. Thank goodness I have mine always with me, together with the authentic Cthulhu tentacle replica that I bought of the mad Arab…eh…I mean, my tentacle dealer earlier this [...]
Would you close the door to all these science fiction panhandlers?
With trembling tears in my eyes I saw just very recently that, lo and behold, Philip K. Dick was imparted an honor that Lovecraft mine has long had the opportunity to enjoy – the inclusion, that is, into the portfolio of The Library of America.
As the final sentence has it in Michael Jones’ review article [...]
Race and Decay (VII)
I’ll go a little deeper into what I just scribed the outlines of in my previous post: into evil it is. The point I wanted to render into some kind of permanent memory for my ongoing discussion of Race and Decay, the second chapter of my guerre avec Lovecraft’s use of race, an exceedingly long [...]
Race and Decay (VI)
I couldn’t possibly enlist more than a few weak, but very pertinent excuses for my personal blogging inertia – such as: teaching obligations, more teaching, and then some teaching when you’re hanging in there in the afternoon, just barely surviving for the sake of it. So. It only seems that my blogging habits are slackening [...]
