Thursday, March 31, 2016

Guest Post: Fugues and Fish Heads: Arthur Machen and Johann Sebastian Bach by Dale Nelson

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Today, March 31 (New Style), is the 331st birthday of J. S. Bach. When Machen wrote of “a highly elaborate and elaborated piece of ...
Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Rex Ryan, Midnight Love

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Book collector and researcher extraordinaire, Andrew Parry, has found a "lost" Rex Ryan novel, Midnight Love , published by the...
Sunday, March 27, 2016

A new issue of Biblio-Curiosa

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A quick note to point out a new issue (no. 6) of Chris Mikul's zine Biblio-Curiosa , covering "unusual writers" and "stra...
Thursday, March 24, 2016

Guest Post: Eating and Drinking with Machen and Orwell by Dale Nelson

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We are animals, but not mere animals.   Sometimes we may feed like animals – by which expression I don’t mean gross gobbling, but rathe...
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Monday, March 21, 2016

Poisoned Binding

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Hints for the Preservation of Health in Tropical Africa The advice offered by The Crown Agents for the Colonies in this 1945 guide is bri...
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Friday, March 18, 2016

Lovecraft's Lost "Cancer of Superstition" Typescript?

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On April 9th, 2016, the Chicago auction house Potter & Potter will be selling a typescript which they claim is by H.P. Lovecraft, ghost-...
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Thursday, March 17, 2016

Guest Post: Machen’s Teilo in “The Tree of Life” and the Talosian Situation by Dale Nelson

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In the Star Trek pilot “The Cage,” a spaceship crashed and only a child survived.   Inhabitants of Talos IV raised the girl, Vina, as w...