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or Where Next for Lovecraftian Fiction<\/em>? In which my writing, H P Lovecraft<\/strong>, Ramsey Campbell<\/strong>, women and other strange phenomena crash into each other, and everyone goes home in tears. Or something like that. Never give a man his own website, he’ll only spoil things. Even worse, I’m on my own today. Editor-in-chief is at the gym; technical support crew and longdogs are otherwise engaged, and Twiglet<\/strong>, for some reason, is chewing a box of three-inch screws.<\/p>\n

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I therefore head to the trenches without tactical support. Obviously I have no actual answer to the \u201cwhere next\u201d question. This really ought to be a drunken panel at a convention hosted by a cool Jamaican woman in an armoured exoskeleton with her own cattle-prod. That would be more fun. Much of my own work is Edwardian period occult, and owes more to William Hope Hodgson<\/strong> and J B Priestley<\/strong> than it does to H P Lovecraft. But I do have a few thoughts. Oh dear…<\/p>\n

In the past few months since the Great Re-Emergence, I’ve been monitoring anthology calls fairly keenly. After all, I might have a story on an old gum wrapper which could be swiftly adapted to current needs. You know the drill. Cross out \u201cKevin the Plumber<\/em>\u201d, replace with \u201ccrazed scholar<\/em>\u201d and add more eldritch bits. There’s nothing worse than a shoggoth stuck in your Non-Euclidean u-bend.<\/p>\n

During this time I’ve seen calls for LGBT Cthulhu, Inclusive Cthulhu, Turn HPL on His Head, Post-Lovecraft Weird, Historical Mythos<\/em> and a number of others. Which is fine. And I’ve read many interviews with contemporary authors (even conducted a few), interviews which considered different aspects of writing in or beyond this area, such as:<\/p>\n