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Virgil Finlay illustrates Hallowe’en in a Suburb by HP Lovecraft for Weird Tales, September 1952<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2022 Literary Hub does Halloween with an abundance with Draculas, a lazy option but the pieces are good ones nonetheless: Olivia Rutigliano<\/a> attempts to rank the 50 best (screen) Draculas, and also recalls the Broadway production designed by Edward Gorey<\/a>. At the same site, Katie Yee<\/a> discovers that The Addams Family<\/em> (1991) is really about the importance of books.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The inevitable film lists: the always reliable Anne Billson<\/a> selects the scariest ghosts in cinema; at Dennis Cooper’s, TheNeanderthalSkull curates\u2026DC\u2019s Weirdo Halloween Horror Movie Marathon<\/a>, a list featuring a couple of oddities which have appeared in previous weekend links.<\/p>\n

\u2022 More books bound with human skin: Megan Rosenbloom<\/a>, author of Dark Archives: A Librarian\u2019s Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin<\/em> discusses the subject with S. Elizabeth.<\/p>\n

Beyond all this, however, readers are most likely to read De Quincey for his compellingly strange writing on opium and its effect on the mind. For it is opium, rather than the opium-eater, he writes in Confessions<\/em>, who \u201cis the true hero of the tale\u201d. He explains the drug cannot of itself create imaginative visions\u2014the man \u201cwhose talk is of oxen\u201d will probably dream about oxen. But for De Quincey, with his love for reverie, it gives \u201can inner eye and power of intuition for the vision and the mysteries of our human nature\u201d. Wine \u201crobs a man of his self-possession: opium greatly invigorates it\u201d. It \u201cgives an expansion to the heart and the benevolent affections\u201d. \u201cThis\u201d, he claims, \u201cis the doctrine of the true church on the subject of opium: of which church I acknowledge myself to be the only member.\u201d<\/p>\n

“Thomas De Quincey\u2019s revelatory writing deserves greater attention,” says Jane Darcy<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2022 New music: Weeping Ghost<\/em><\/a> by John Carpenter is a preview of the forthcoming Lost Themes III<\/em>; Moments Of Clarity<\/em><\/a> is a new album of psychedelic(ish) songs from Professor Yaffle.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “How now, you secret, black, and midnight hags!<\/span>” Sean Connery (RIP) was often playing kings in later life but he started early with this performance as Macbeth<\/a> in 1961. (Ta to TjZ for the link!)<\/p>\n

\u2022 Mixes of the week: a (non-Halloween) guest mix by Paul Sch\u00fctze<\/a> for Toneshift, and the by-now traditional Samhain S\u00e9ance Mix from The Ephemeral Man<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Clive Hicks-Jenkins’ big new adventure<\/a>: an illustrated “reinvention” of Jean Cocteau’s La Belle et la B\u00eate<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Drew McDowall<\/a> (of Coil, et al) talks Musick<\/em>, magick and sacred materiality.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “No one loves the smell of a Kindle,” says Thomas O’Dwyer<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Br\u00fcder des Schattens<\/a><\/em> (1979) by Popol Vuh | Nosferatu<\/a><\/em> (1988) by Art Zoyd | Vampires At Large<\/a><\/em> (2012) by John Zorn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Virgil Finlay illustrates Hallowe’en in a Suburb by HP Lovecraft for Weird Tales, September 1952. \u2022 Literary Hub does Halloween with an abundance with Draculas, a lazy option but the pieces are good ones nonetheless: Olivia Rutigliano attempts to rank the 50 best (screen) Draculas, and also recalls the Broadway production designed by Edward Gorey. … Continue reading “Weekend links 541”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"New blog post: Weekend links 541","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,42,851,29,7,22,48,3,16,17,46],"tags":[4179,11008,767,2272,3109,977,7609,2313,1687,11006,132,680,3046,11004,3731,10966,3439,11003,11007,465,1900,9346,1852,4462,8383,5321,11005,1636,10941,1895,2396],"class_list":["post-20153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-drugs","category-electronica","category-film","category-horror","category-illustrators","category-music","category-occult","category-psychedelia","category-theatre","tag-anne-billson","tag-art-zoyd","tag-clive-hicks-jenkins","tag-coil-group","tag-dennis-cooper","tag-dracula","tag-drew-mcdowall","tag-edward-gorey","tag-hp-lovecraft","tag-jane-darcy","tag-jean-cocteau","tag-john-carpenter","tag-john-zorn","tag-katie-yee","tag-macbeth","tag-megan-rosenbloom","tag-nosferatu","tag-olivia-rutigliano","tag-opium","tag-paul-schutze","tag-popol-vuh","tag-professor-yaffle","tag-s-elizabeth","tag-sean-connery","tag-the-addams-family","tag-the-ephemeral-man","tag-theneanderthalskull","tag-thomas-de-quincey","tag-thomas-odwyer","tag-virgil-finlay","tag-weird-tales"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-5f3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}