Lovecraft scholar S.T. Joshi has assembled a heck of a collection of stories ostensibly inspired by At the Mountains of Madness, arguably H.P. Lovecraft’s best work. It’s… Read more “Book Review: The Madness of Cthulhu”
Tag: H.P. Lovecraft
Tabletop RPG Review: Against the Unknown
I’ve been a fan of the Call of Cthulhu tabletop role-playing game for a long danged time. I started on Basic Roleplaying, which uses the same core… Read more “Tabletop RPG Review: Against the Unknown”
Book Review: The Dark Eidolon and Other Fantasies
Being a reader of Lovecraft, Howard, and some of the other ‘Weird Tales’ folk from that time, I was always aware of Clark Ashton Smith as another… Read more “Book Review: The Dark Eidolon and Other Fantasies”
Book Review: Future Lovecraft
My perennial statement about anthologies: they’re a mixed bag. This book definitely holds to that. It’s got a lot of stories, from a lot of different creators.… Read more “Book Review: Future Lovecraft”
Book Review: The Hounds of Tindalos
I’ve come up with an analogy that sums up my feelings about author Frank Belknap Long. If H.P. Lovecraft and C.L. Moore are AMC or FX, if… Read more “Book Review: The Hounds of Tindalos”
Book Review: The Rim of the Unknown
When I was a lad, and first getting into the works of H.P. Lovecraft and other weavers of weird tales, Frank Belknap Long’s name quickly entered… Read more “Book Review: The Rim of the Unknown”
Book Review: The Yith Cycle
Chaosium’s “Cycle Books” are a fantastic series of themed anthologies (for the most part). But they do have one thing that I’m not thrilled with, usual series… Read more “Book Review: The Yith Cycle”
Musings on the Lovecraftian Universe Part 1
What follows is not meant to be a scholarly exploration or dissertation. S.T. Joshi and others far, far more qualified and eloquent than myself covered any… Read more “Musings on the Lovecraftian Universe Part 1”