Showing posts with label H. P. Lovecraft. Show all posts
Showing posts with label H. P. Lovecraft. Show all posts
Thursday, June 06, 2024

Leave Them Wanting More?

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Here's an essay by Cory Doctorow about fiction, movies, and games giving audiences what they need instead of what they want, or think th...
Thursday, October 05, 2023

Mental Illness in Horror

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The Horror Writers Association's monthly newsletter has started running a column about the treatment of mental illness in horror fiction...
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Thursday, December 22, 2022

Holiday Parodies

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Have I previously recommended POLITICALLY CORRECT HOLIDAY STORIES, by James Finn Garner? Although slightly dated to the specific "polit...
Thursday, December 15, 2022

Giant Viruses

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Scientists have discovered and revived a 30,000-year-old virus, not seen since the Upper Paleolithic era, buried under the Siberian permafro...
Thursday, November 17, 2022

The Purpose of Horror

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What is horror fiction (whether in print or on film) good for? My parents certainly took a dim view of my fervent interest in the genre, beg...
Thursday, June 02, 2022

Lost Continents

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Recently I came across a reference to a "paleomicrocontinent" whose remains underlie parts of central Europe, called Greater Adria...
Thursday, October 22, 2020

Horror as a Coping Mechanism

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It comes as no surprise to me that a recent psychological study suggests horror fans may be uniquely well prepared to confront scary realiti...
Thursday, November 21, 2019

Good Art, Problematic Creators

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Cory Doctorow's latest LOCUS column discusses the renaming of the John W. Campbell Award. We might also mention (although Doctorow doesn...
Thursday, August 22, 2019

Pre-Human Civilizations?

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Could some other species have built a civilization on Earth long before we evolved? Gavin Schmidt, director of NASA's Goddard Institute ...
Thursday, March 01, 2018

From the Dark Places

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I'm thrilled to announce that my horror novel with romantic elements FROM THE DARK PLACES has been re-released. It's one of my books...