“I could not go into that dim chaos of old forest…”

03 Tuesday Jun 2014

Posted by asdjfdlkf in Odd scratchings, Scholarly works

Gurus of Sci-Fi: the Hugo Gernsback and Forrest J. Ackerman Papers…

Ackerman is known less as a writer and more as a literary agent for writers like Lovecraft and Ray Bradbury. […] Ackerman’s papers came to Syracuse University in the late 1960s. By 1973 they totaled 100 linear feet and included fanzines, correspondence, manuscript drafts, and ephemera — all of it to this day unprocessed.” (My emphasis)

“The case of these imaginative theorists has not been helped by the action of superstition…”

03 Tuesday Jun 2014

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Amazon has a new listing for the forthcoming (July 2014) book The Curious Case of H. P. Lovecraft, touted as a “comprehensive new biography” in 192 pages. The author’s past books apparently include “The Dark History of the Occult”; “The Crimes of Jack the Ripper”, “Nazis and the Occult”.

Lovecraft was right, part 936

03 Tuesday Jun 2014

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Siberian fisherman hauls up a ferocious god statuette made at the beginning of recorded time…

The figurine has almond shaped eyes, a large mouth with full lips, and a ferocious face expression “[…] the experts told me that this object was carved at the very beginning of the Bronze Age. […] Marina Banschikova, director of Tisul History Museum said: “Quite likely, it shows a pagan god.