Dec 4, 2006
I didn’t win but I made the second round apparently (along with 120 others…middle row in the above picture, second from the right). Congratulations to Spencer Fruhling whose winning design you can see at the bottom of this page. An interesting choice, there were a number of pastiche-based entries which I thought might be rejected […]
Dec 4, 2006
BBC Radio 3 gets hip to the squamous nightmares of HPL.
Available to listen to online until next Sunday.
Geoff Ward examines the strange life and terrifying world of the man hailed as America’s greatest horror writer since Poe.
During his life Lovecraft’s work was confined to lurid pulp magazines and he died in penury in 1937. Today, […]
Dec 4, 2006
Photography by Patrick Sarfati.
Dec 4, 2006
The apocalyptic spectacles of Romantic painter John Martin are routinely treated by art critics as kitsch, a dismissal which ignores the considerable power and perennial attraction that many of his best pictures possess. Kitsch is a bad thing, it seems, unless you’re Jeff Koons or Jake and Dinos Chapman.
Martin’s most famous work, The Great Day […]