This is great, despite the creepy orchestral music in the background. {File source: archive.org}
君子不器
This is great, despite the creepy orchestral music in the background. {File source: archive.org}
So I found a clean version of Oobmab’s “The Flock of Ba-hui” in (GB) Chinese (「巴虺的牧群」2013). The source is a very interesting Fantasy dojinshi and translation discussion forum called “The Ring of Wonder” (which looks completely different in its mobile format btw). There are many other works of HPL-inspired horror available on their Cthulhu board and, interestingly,…
gameraboy1: This Creeping Evil by Geoffrey BennettArrow Books, 1963Cover art uncredited
The book which actually shipped in pickled form:
Why Cosmic Horror is at the root of post-modern nihilism. tl;dr The version of existence which acknowledges the horror of an unknowable cosmos has been called “weird realism” or “speculative realism”[7] and it undermines all anthropocentric belief systems (religious or humanist). There is a tendency, even nowadays, to think of the world in which we…
Lovecraft’s Otherworldly Xenophobia – Areo Other qualities further entangle Lovecraft’s horror fiction with his personal ethnocentrism. As well as fear, Lovecraft’s creatures vividly evoke disgust and the threat of disease—they are “oozing,” “gangrenous,” “gelatinous,” “putrid” and trickling with “foetid greenish-yellow ichor.” Lovecraft was acutely sensitive to his own health, complaining throughout his life of various…
Weird Fiction: A Primer Some of the recent attention trained on weird fiction can be attributed to Jeff VanderMeer. His acclaimed Southern Reach trilogy shows off weird fiction’s range, encompassing elements of science fiction, Lovecraftian terror, paranoid conspiracy thrillers, and body horror. He’s written about literature as it relates to the first season of True…