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June 11, 2014
Great Holes Are Dug: a review of “The Children of Old Leech”
I didn’t grow up in the sticks, but I wasn’t an urban kid, either. I guess edge of the sticks might be an appropriate descriptor for my neighbourhood: the outside rings of cheap housing on the borders of a bedroom community which was itself on the outside of a mid-sized Cascadian burg. No sidewalks defined our roads, only aged grey asphalt crumbling at the edges into tarry pebbles, scrub pine needles and the discarded rusty skin of arbutus trees. There was a field bordering a line of warehous...
May 30, 2014
Top 5 Films That “Do Lovecraft” Better Than Lovecraft
Howard Lovecraft’s thematic influence is all over the popular media these days, draped like a flaccid mass of fetid shoggoth protoplasm over everything from comics to My Little Pony to the films of Guillermo del Toro, a director who gets HPL and mostly gets his world and Mythos right. But for every del Toro, there’s a dozen lesser directors for whom the addition of some tentacles and a raving scholar or two constitutes the apex of what can now be called “Lovecraftian horror”, a term that’s pr...
May 23, 2014
Open Call for Submissions RESONATOR: New Lovecraftian Tales From Beyond
Tillinghast: "My ... god! It's ... a new anthology from Martian Migraine Press!" Dr. McMichaels: "I want to see more. FEEL MORE!"
In his classic story From Beyond, Howard Phillips Lovecraft introduced the Tillinghast Resonator: a monstrous device that stimulates dormant senses in man, opens up unseen worlds to unsuspecting eyes, and calls through terror and ecstasy from a realm far beyond our mundane perceptions. This is an open call for submissions to the third anthology from Martian Migraine...
May 16, 2014
Cold Blades and Cosmic Blasphemy!: A Review of “Sword and Mythos”
Though I grew up in the era that saw the rise of Dungeons&Dragons as a cultural touchstone, I was largely clueless about the genre it drew most if not all of its cues from. An example: I had no idea what those kids were playing when I saw E.T.: The Extraterrestrial as a boy.
Child Me: "What're they doing?" Dad: "Satanism. They're doing Satanism."
I thought it was some kind of club meeting or something, and wondered when the spaceships were gonna show up. (I suppose it was a club meeting, after...
April 24, 2014
Cosmic Claustrophobia: Gabriel Blackwell’s ‘The Natural Dissolution of Fleeting-Improvised-Men’
Part of the appeal of H. P. Lovecraft’s work is the sensed worlds (of teeming monstrous biology, creeping paranoia, undeniable nihilism) that lurk not so much within the text itself (famously verbose and weighted with archaisms as it is) but in the spaces between the flowery words and behind the formal lines. Lovecraft’s fiction is all about the suggestion, the hint, and that which we speak of when we speak of the unspeakable. To read Lovecraft is, in a lot of ways, to get what the man was ab...
April 20, 2014
Keeping It R’lyeh, One Month In
Migraineers, we released Scott R Jones‘ When The Stars Are Right: Towards An Authentic R’lyehian Spirituality exactly one month ago. Print and electronic editions. Now, the ebook version, well… there’s an unlimited supply of those, obviously. Photons and code, basically. Same stuff of which the Universe is built: common as muck. But the print editions, constructed of precious inks and the rendered flesh of forest titans? Ah, rare materials indeed. The first print run came to 100 books, a numb...
Justine Geoffrey’s Top 5 Sexy Lovecraftian Stories
So, I trust we’ve all gotten over our sticky prudishness re: the intersection of Lovecraft’s Mythos/general philosophy and the vast and pulsing arena of human (and non-human) sexuality? Yes? Good. Moving on! Here are my Top 5 picks (and one Honourable Mention) for the Sexiest Lovecraftian Stories…
Honourable Mention
Le Ciél Overt by Kirsten Brown
For me, Lovecraftian sexuality is all about going that extra mile, y’know? What swims in those black seas of infinity, and more importantly, what are i...
March 20, 2014
Smut and Spirituality for Spring!
A double-header Newscluster for you this morning, Migraineers! Some smut and spirituality to start off your Spring!
CONQUEROR WOMB goes FREE on Kindle for a Limited Time…
First off: the Spring has sprung! the grass is riz! And if you’re wondering where the Black Goat of the Woods is, well babies, She is over in the Amazon Kindle store where she’s been since we put her there, gathering followers and great reviews. And in celebration of the Vernal Equinox, she’s making herself all free and easy f...
March 4, 2014
What They’re Saying About ‘When The Stars Are Right’
“In the decades since H. P. Lovecraft’s untimely death, countless objects, films, novels, stories, and poems have expanded upon The Old Man of Providence’s oeuvre and its associated pantheon of alien god-things. Among those secondary creations, alongside such nameless horrors as plush Cthulhus and stranger things, have been numerous false Necronomicons, promising arcane wisdom and occult power, but too-often turning out to be a gamut of unpronoun...
February 28, 2014
‘When The Stars Are Right’ PRE-ORDER
Scott R Jones‘ When The Stars Are Right: Towards An Authentic R’lyehian Spirituality is at the printers, but you can pre-order this game-changing title NOW directly from Martian Migraine Press. The book itself is a perfect-bound paperback, 128 pages printed on acid free, elemental chlorine free paper containing 40% post consumer content. (We’re doing our best when it comes to Keepin’ It R’lyeh with the environment, natch!)
When The Stars Are Right is priced at $15.99CAD plus shipping. We use P...
