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Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein
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Pulp scholar specializing in H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard. Author of SEX AND THE CTHULHU MYTHOS and WEIRD TALERS. Reader of dead people's letters. He/him. Blue checks happen to other people.

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Tales of the Leather Nun (1973)
Two comic panels, in slightly yellowed black-and-white. 1st panel: Cthulhu gets a facial while two Great Old Ones look on. 2nd panel: The penis disappears, leaving Cthulhu on his own. Cthulhu says: "Just as I thought! Some kind of practical joke! Damn you, dwarf, just you wait--"
November 26, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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Post your warning label. This is mine:
Eldritch Fappenings This review deals with a work of pornography, and the history of erotic art and writing. As part of this review, selected images with cartoon depictions of genitalia and/or sexually explicit contact will be displayed. As such, please be advised before reading further.
November 25, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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A broken Viking sword, bent back on itself.
November 25, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Norse carved cross.
November 25, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Technically I don't need any illustrations at all, but I like to dress it up a little.
Three corroded Viking swords, point-down.
November 25, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Once again I don't have budget for an artist or graphic designer for this project, so I'm making do with public domain images. Yaaay.
Black-and-white-image of a Celtic cross cover.
November 25, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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I often regret my lack of any artistic training or graphic design sense. I keep telling myself one of these years I'll up my graphic design and layout game for books and websites, but there never seems to be enough time.
Inverted Rorschach test ink blot, in greyscale. Look, I wanted something here.
November 25, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Book catalogue project, day 494: Sosostris: A Tale of the King in Yellow (2000, Armitage House) by John Tynes. Chapbook. Clean pages, minimal wear. 84/100.
Book catalogue project, day 494: Sosostris: A Tale of the King in Yellow (2000, Armitage House) by John Tynes. Chapbook. Clean pages, minimal wear. 84/100. On the (white) cover: Photographs of three people in royal garb. Their faces are blurred out. Numbering page. 84/100.
November 25, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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45: As to Howard’s legacy in Weird Tales, Lovecraft simply said:
There will be no successor to fill his peculiarly distinctive place. Price may try to parallel some of his work—but the difference will be easy to perceive. Ar-E’ch-Bei spoke all too truly when he wrote: “Conan, the Warrior-King, lies stricken dead.” (DS 661)
November 24, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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If you see this, post a comic book cover you love.
Cover of Legends of the Dark Knight #5. A skull shatters. Inside is Batman.
November 24, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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Book catalogue project, day 493: A Guide to the Cthulhu Cult (1996, Armitage House) by Fred L. Pelton. Chapbook. Clean pages, minimal wear. 32/100.
Book catalogue project, day 493: A Guide to the Cthulhu Cult (1996, Armitage House) by Fred L. Pelton. Chapbook. Clean pages, minimal wear. 32/100. On the cover: an odd symbol, a circle within a circle, surrounded by four wavy tentacles in 16 coils. Numbering page. 32/100
November 24, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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Frankenstein decides to die a virgin, as the women of the future look on.
November 23, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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Book catalogue project, day 492: From Beyond: A Cthulhu Mythos Play in Two Acts (1996, Armitage House) by Brendan Babe, James Pelton, and Jonathan Taylor. Chapbook. Clean pages, minimal wear. 26/100.
Book catalogue project, day 492: From Beyond: A Cthulhu Mythos Play in Two Acts (1996, Armitage House) by Brendan Babe, James Pelton, and Jonathan Taylor. Chapbook. Clean pages, minimal wear. 26/100. On the (white) cover: A black-and-white image of a woman's face overlayed on a man's, with what might be tentacles or veins in the background. Numbering page. 26/100.
November 23, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Michelangelo's David, showing the heart-shaped pupils.
November 23, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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It was a cube. When he held it, it had been a cube. But the second it touched the table it shifted, gained new facets. He watched it roll...and come to a stop.

IX

A shiver went through her body. The old gob smiled.

"Well. That's a start on your journey. But dare you roll it again?"
4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 rtifact SHables r Inflict a -2 penalty on the user's saving throws vs. poison Cause the user's touch to rot away wooden items the size of a bow or less in ld4 days Cause the user's touch to kill plants (inflicts ld6 points of damage to plantbased creatures) Cause NPC reactions to the user to be neutral or worse Infl ict insatiable hunger upon the user, who must eat a full meal once every wak¬ ing hour Instantly change the gender of anyone handling an artifact for the first time Inflict deafness upon the user, who then can only hear when people shout. Spellcasters must shout their spells to be suc¬ cessful. Inflict an incurable disease upon the user. At the beginning of each month a saving throw vs. death magic must be made to avoid losing 1 point of Constitution. When the user's Constitution reaches 0, death occurs. Cause the user's touch to have a 50% chance of draining the magic from any item not an artifact
November 23, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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"Here I tried for the first time the celebrated Mexican dish of hot tamales—small cylindrical pastry crusts stuffed with highly seasoned chopped lamb & immersed in a highly seasoned sauce of brownish colour. I liked them very much, though not quite as much as the similar Italian dish called ravioli, which employs a tomato sauce like that used on spaghetti." —H. P. Lovecraft to Lillian Clark, May 10-11 1931, LFF2.891
November 22, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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"My taste has become so prodigiously Italianised that I never order anything but spaghetti & minestrone except when those are not to be had—& they really contain an almost ideal balance of active nutritive elements, considering the wheaten base of spaghetti, the abundant vitamines in tomato sauce, the assorted vegetables in minestrone, & the profusion of powdered cheese common to both." - H. P. Lovecraft to Lillian D. Clark, 18 Sep 1925, LFF1.402
November 22, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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Yep!
Stephen Hickman's Lovecraft bust from Bowen (beside a Cthulhu-underwater resin model) Stephen Hickman's 2020 Cthulhu idol. Stephen Hickman's 1997 Cthulhu idol from Bowen.
November 22, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Book catalogue project, day 491: The Ballad of Eric Zann (2015, Eryx Press) by K. L. Young and Rob Corless. Chapbook. Clean pages, minimal wear. Signed by author. With sleeve.
Book catalogue project, day 491: The Ballad of Eric Zann (2015, Eryx Press) by K. L. Young and Rob Corless. Chapbook. Clean pages, minimal wear. Signed by author. With sleeve. Square-cut book in a sleeve with a diecut hole, to make it look like a 45 record. Without sleeve, the cover made to look like a 45 record. Open to the first page, to showcase a naked, glowing man from behind, surrounded by crackling energies and tentacles against a background of composition paper.
November 22, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Book catalogue project, day 490: The Yellow Sign (2019, Stefan Poag) by Robert W. Chambers & Stefan Poag. Chapbook. Clean pages, minimal wear. Signed by artist.
Book catalogue project, day 490: The Yellow Sign (2019, Stefan Poag) by Robert W. Chambers & Stefan Poag. Chapbook. Clean pages, minimal wear. Signed by artist. On the cover: A crowned, yellow-robed figure with a strange symbol on their back looks out from the tall parapet of a strange city over a rocky bay to the sea. Rear cover. Signed by Stefan Poag, May 2020 "In the time of the Pandemic!" Interior. Focus on a woman holding a ring in the palm of her hand. The ring has a large rectangular black stone with the Yellow Sign on it.
November 21, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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Fulci's Inferno by Matt Rogerson
November 20, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Book catalogue project, day 489: Sunshine Over Arkham (1991, Midnight Press) by Halbert F. Speer. Chapbook. Clean pages, minimal wear.
Book catalogue project, day 489: Sunshine Over Arkham (1991, Midnight Press) by Halbert F. Speer. Chapbook. Clean pages, minimal wear. The plain (manilla) cover is accented with some art deco knotwork designs. In Which an Imaginative Researcher Discovers the Exact Location of the City of Arkham from Clues Provided in the Macabre Writings of H. P. Lovecraft of Providence, Rhode Island.
November 20, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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This was false advertising (Sanho Kim is actually South Korean, not Japanese), but I was too young to know any better.
MANGA HORROR. A mermaid plays the flute above a storm-wracked sea, while other mermaids drown a man in the distance. Banner: "We dare you to read this chilling tale of the 'Bloody Mermaid' by Samho Kim"
November 19, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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84.2: and Pugmire practiced what he preached:
My work cannot honestly be called “Lovecraftian” because I focus exclusively on supernaturalism; but Lovecraft’s influence has kissed everything I’ve written. Sometimes that kiss is long and deep and blatant; but in the works I consider my best, the lips are lightly applied, though the passion runs deep. (Pugmire 1999, 3)
November 19, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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Book catalogue project, day 488: FuBar: A Periodical vol. 3 no. 2 (1986, Soft Books) by Joseph Bell. Fanzine. Clean pages, minimal wear. 114/200.
Book catalogue project, day 488: FuBar: A Periodical vol. 3 no. 2 (1986, Soft Books) by Joseph Bell. Fanzine. Clean pages, minimal wear. 114/200. On the (red) cover: A black-and-white photograph of a medieval full-face helmet. Number page. 114/200.
November 19, 2025 at 9:49 AM