In which a violent Turk slaughters some giants, and steals their land, at which point H P Lovecraft decides he likes the English, but doesn’t know what he’s talking about…
So, there was this guy called H P Lovecraft. He came from New England and at one time declared I am Providence. And he wrote some rather interesting creepy stories which didn’t get that much attention at the time. Despite this, they were unusual enough to capture certain imaginations, and now we have a whole world of Lovecraftian wonders. Seems all right so far… Continue reading Lovecraft’s Albion, and other Lunacies→
Today, dear listener, we have loss and identity; clarity and hope; the core of writing, style, Angela Carter and some dark, magical stories. When we thought about interviewing author Gwendolyn Kiste, we realised we wanted to burrow behind her work a bit, so we went there. Though we centre on her debut collection, And Her Smile Will Untether the Universe, we end up discussing, well, life, really. It’s an in-depth interview which we think you’ll enjoy.
Ever accidentally come across a collection of stories that hits the spot dead on? You don’t know the author and you’ve never glanced at any reviews. You have no expectations. Because sometimes the blues shivers our spines, we’d picked up J Malcolm Stewart’sThe Last Words of Robert Johnson. Anything about that haunted bluesman seemed a good start. Very neat title story, yep, with a setting that interests us, the States in 1920s and 1930s. Eerie, historical and laced with potential and actual horror. High marks so far…
Did you realise how much is happening in weird, horror and speculative fiction these days? It’s madness! So here’s a brief round-up of some books, a comic and campaigns. Folk horror poetics and photography in North from Phil Breach and Tim Turnbull; a neat Lovecraft comic for the younger folk written by Brandon Barrows; Letters of Decline, a short themed anthology on horror and the job interview, and the anthology Between Twilight and Dawn.
