Easily Distracted
Notes on the genre literature of 1760-2020
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Sunday, March 28, 2021
Re-reading Lovecraft: The Dunwich Horror
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The wrong fork My impression from reading "The Dunwich Horror" in high school was that it was one of Lovecraft's masterpieces,...
Saturday, September 7, 2019
Strange crossroads: the weird and the Fortean
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The intersection of spectral literature and Forteana always interests me. The 2019 book Weird Wires: Strange Reports from the Past by Sam...
Monday, August 26, 2019
Lovecraft on Poe
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Supernatural Horror in Literature by H.P. Lovecraft Chapter VII. EDGAR ALLAN POE ....Whatever his limitations, Poe did that which no one el...
Monday, July 15, 2019
Torn halves of weird decadence: My reading notes on Chapter 5 of Weird Fiction in Britain 1880–1939 by James Machin (Palgrave 2018).
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Weird Fiction in Britain 1880–1939 by James Machin (Palgrave 2018). CHAPTER 5 Weird Tales and Pulp Decadence ....Brian Stabl...
Sunday, June 30, 2019
Re-reading Lovecraft: The Thing on the Doorstep [1933]
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Have I read " The Thing on the Doorstep " before? I'm sure I did at some point in high school. I remember the man-pretending...
Re-reading Lovecraft: The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (1927).
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Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circum...
Sunday, June 23, 2019
Re-reading Lovecraft: Machenean Perichoresis in The Music of Eric Zann and He.
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From the article Some Thoughts on 'N' By Thomas Kent Miller (Copyright © 2012-2018 All Rights Reserved): ….in 1936 Machen declared ...
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