ALA Booklist Starred Review – Issue: December 15, 2015H. P. Lovecraft and his Mythos have seen a resurgence in popularity in the last 10 years, in both popular and scholarly circles, but this collection stands out among the crowd. Editor French selected 12 of the key deities from ...
There is no question that HP Lovecraft, influential writer of horror fiction and son of Providence, held views that were clearly racist, outdated outliers even by the standards of his time. My goal here is not to excuse his racism, but to place it in a context of Lovecraft as a human b...
As I have said before, the weird studies of Harley Warren were well known to me, and to some extent shared by me. Of his vast collection of strange, rare books on forbidden subjects I have read all that are written in the languages of which I am master; but these are few as compare...
This collection of “Additional Monsters for RuneQuest” was created by Sandy Petersen. The “H.P. Lovecraft Creations” chapter includes statistics for Deep Ones, the Great Race, the Mi-Go, Nightgaunts, the Old Ones, Shoggoths, and Spawn of Yog-Sothoth. Petersen went on to create the Ca...
Lovecraft’s complete list of works along with a short summary: 1) The Alchemist – 1916 Book Summary: For over 600 years the male descendants of the Chabrillane family have all inexplicably perished on their 32nd birthday. The legend of the curse began the night Henri Chabrillane, killed...