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Top 10 grimoires | The Necronomicon at #9. Hail Yog-Sothoth!

Weird, but wonderful
| Harrison reviews Lovecraft.

Der Tod als Erwürger (1851) by Alfred Rethel.
It’s a fact (sad or otherwise) that a substantial percentage of my music collection would make good Halloween listening but in that percentage a number of works are prominent as spooky favourites. So here’s another list to add to those already clogging the world’s servers, in no [...]

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1920: the writer sits, at night, an old city asleep outside his window, dim light upon the empty page. He sits and waits for the words. When the words arrive he sets them down, hopelessly he often feels, a pointless task he submits to with resignation. Recurrent illness has been a rebuke against expectation, lack [...]

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 that nothing can interest me unless it contains a [...]