Jan 1, 2017
Fountain (1917) by R. Mutt (Marcel Duchamp), and God (1917) by Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven. • “What is there left to know about David Bowie? What is there left to unearth?” asks Ian Penman whose lengthy review of recent Bowie books is better by far than a shelf full of cash-in doorstops. • Strázci z hlubin […]
Aug 4, 2015
The Gable Window (1984) by John Coulthart. Presenting some of my first Lovecraftian illustrations, neither of which have been made public before. This drawing, and the one below, are as much Derlethian as they are Lovecraftian, depicting scenes from a short story and a short novel written by August Derleth from fragments and notes found […]
Mar 10, 2015
Going through some of my loose copies of Man, Myth and Magic recently turned up this article by Kenneth Grant that I’d forgotten about. I have two separate sets of Man, Myth and Magic: a complete edition in binders, and a partial collection of loose copies of the weekly “illustrated encyclopedia of the supernatural”. The […]
Jan 26, 2014
Cochemare (1810) by Jean Pierre Simon. One of 100,000 high-resolution images now available from Wellcome Images. • Ted Morgan’s Literary Outlaw: The Life and Times of William S. Burroughs (1990) was a solid biography blighted by a bizarrely bad-tempered and judgemental attitude towards many of Burroughs’ friends and colleagues. Morgan says Burroughs disliked the book […]
Jul 7, 2013
Poster by Luke Insect & Kenn Goodall. In recent years I’ve had little patience for British cinema: too much dour “realism” with little of Alan Clarke’s vitality, too many comedies that aren’t funny, too many Hollywood calling cards, too much Colin Firth… So it’s been a pleasure to see Peter Strickland’s Berberian Sound Studio followed […]
Oct 12, 2011
Die Farbe (2010). The colour, which resembled some of the bands in the meteor’s strange spectrum, was almost impossible to describe; and it was only by analogy that they called it colour at all. Its texture was glossy, and upon tapping it appeared to promise both brittleness and hollowness. The Colour Out of Space (1927). […]
Aug 16, 2006
Sam Leith is engrossed by a formidable essay on the father of ‘weird fiction’. HP Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life by Michel Houellebecq tr by Dorna Kazheni intro by Stephen King 256pp, Weidenfeld & Nicolson £10 (pbk) Saturday, August 12, 2006 The Daily Telegraph “I AM SO BEASTLY TIRED of mankind and the world […]
