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Release: NovelForge 3.x

08 Saturday Mar 2025

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For a few years now, the Photoshop plugin creator Mediachance has also offered the desktop CQuill Writer 1.x creative writing software, this being an affordable $60 standalone helper / story-organiser / style-prompter. After much development over the winter this has just been renamed NovelForge 3.x and 3.x can link to powerful LLM AIs (aka ‘chatbots’), which work directly in its editor window.

It uses the same user registration as CQuill, and I tested this… and yes… NovelForge picked up my old CQuill registration details. Just download the NovelForge trial installer, and it will automatically pick up your CQuill registration and also import the old project files. The user interface and workflow possibilities are much the same, with only a new AI assistant tab.

There’s a video on How to setup NovelForge with OpenRouter for free, to access remote LLM AIs. As you can see here, it can also work with local desktop AI hosting suites…

Use cases: paraphrasing; condensing; dialogue fixing (e.g. speech of the time period, regional accent and dialect, prevailing courtesy mannerisms etc); coherence and readability; cliche and modern slang avoidance; crafting more believable character responses e.g. emotional / logical / humorous; adding world-building details and names; quick research assistance; potentially also a ‘stylisation makeover’ (‘write it like Lovecraft’) and scene extension (‘suggest three events that might happen next, one of which should be plausible but unlikely’). And so on.

The interface is decidedly old-school, but dark mode can be enabled using the third-party Windowtop, and the font size is natively scalable.

In the past I’ve mentioned that I plan to use my registered CQuill to distill a ‘Lovecraft Style’ module (doing so is only possible in the paid version). This is still planned, and (as with the further novels I hope to write one day) I’ll find the time and energy eventually.

Grab your Amazon ebooks while you can…

16 Sunday Feb 2025

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The Verge notes “Amazon will stop allowing Kindle book downloads to your PC soon”. Who knew it was possible? Yup. Via…

Amazon Account.
Digital content and devices.
Content and devices.
Books.
More Actions…

And then you download.

I have an old Kindle 3 and so was able to get Letters to James F. Morton as an unencrypted .AZW3 book, which means the book’s full-text can now appear in my local searches using AnyText Searcher. Regrettably it’s the only book of Lovecraft’s letters-to-correspondents available as an ebook.

Return to ‘The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne’

08 Saturday Feb 2025

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Gosh, has it been five years? How time flies. I’ve at last got around to fully working through the imaginative pulpy steampunk series The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne (SAoJV) (2000). It’s long, at 22 x 45-minute episodes. While an episode often feels longer than it is (briskly edited, sharply written), like most long TV series it’s patchy and padded when you take it on an episode-by-episode basis. If one wanted just enough for two evenings entertainment, I’d suggest the following view-list and viewing order…

1. “In The Beginning” (Introductions, Phileas Fogg backstory, Queen Victoria)

2. “Queen Victoria And The Giant Mole” (Verne’s machine stolen)

13. “The Golem” (Golem, murders in Paris)

3. “Rockets Of The Dead” (Transylvania)

14. “Crusader In The Crypt” (England, Phileas Fogg backstory completed)

11. “Black Glove Of Melchizedek” (Ancient occult glove, Fogg’s other brother)

12. “Dust To Dust” (Egyptian mummy)

20. “Secret of the Realm” (Sargasso Sea, Grail, Queen Victoria)

This omits the ‘mind-control, make the characters act out of character’, ‘time-travel’, ‘palace intrigue’ and ‘visit America’ episodes, to focus just on the better steampunk / supernatural episodes. The picked episodes are self-contained, though there are overlapping elements such as Queen Victoria, Count Gregory and the League of Darkness, the head of the Secret Service, and Fogg’s backstory (which you’ll likely lose track of, if you watch all 22 episodes in order).

Filmed in HD for some $30m in year-2000 Canadian money, and it shows. But sadly the HD has been locked in a corporate vault due to feuding investors. All we have is recordings from TV. There’s not even a DVD.

The drawbacks are the mis-cast teen Jules Verne with his jarring American accent and stage-school acting ability. Better to have had him be Nikola Tesla’s American son, and ideally played by a more capable actor. But then… they wouldn’t have had the series title and name-recognition. British secret agent Rebecca Fogg is consistently superb both in acting and action (there are a lot of stunts), and she often reminded me of Tilda Swinton. Her cousin Phileas Fogg is the main action-man and fills the role of a louche and jaded dandy-soldier well… though… he’s not David Tennant (who would have been brilliant in the role). Fogg’s servant Passepartout is often too goofy and clownish for the small screen. A brilliant physical clown, but he could have ‘dialled it back’ two notches for TV. But when the series works, it works. It’s fun, it’s pulpy, it still looks good thanks to superb storyboarding (oh, for a book of the storyboards and concept art…) / lighting / sets / costumes, cinematography etc. The music and audio production are fine, though three of the TV recordings have a slight echo. The digital FX are definitely from the 2000s, but quite adequate. Nothing explicitly Lovecraftian.


Related: There’s surprisingly little good non-anime TV steampunk. But the three-hour TV adaptation of Terry Pratchett’s Going Postal (2010), and the wild west TV steampunk series Legend (1995, 12 episodes) look the most promising follow-on possibilities.

Fix your Amazon WishLists

10 Friday Jan 2025

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Many readers will have a number of Amazon WishLists, probably with substantial user comments appended. But now some useless tea-boy at Amazon has tinkered with your WishList comments, making them very tiny and also hiding more than the first line of text. So here’s a useful free UserScript for your Web browser, Amazon Wishlist item user-comments / user-notes – fix. This should fix the problem. Requires TamperMonkey or similar, to run UserScripts on Web pages.

A quickie ‘greatest hits’ for Star Trek (TOS)

04 Saturday Jan 2025

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A few readers may be interested in my recent revisiting of Star Trek (Original Series, Kirk and Spock etc). My viewing was only a sampling of the best, as I didn’t want to slog through it all. I also avoided those ‘make the characters act out-of-character’ and ‘time travel to the Earth in the past’ episodes that you tend to get in long TV sci-fi series. Anyway, here’s my final list for a quickie Enterprise-focused ‘greatest hits’ tour of the Original Series (fans call it ‘TOS’), plus the follow-on cinema movies. You should be able to get through it in three or four evenings.

__Series 1__

1×10 The Corbomite Maneuver

1×14 Balance of Terror

1×22 Space Seed (Origin of Khan, useful as backstory for the later movie)

1×25 The Devil in the Dark

1×26 Errand of Mercy (Klingon Empire)

__Series 2__

2×01 Amok Time

2×10 Journey to Babel

2×15 The Trouble With Tribbles (not as good as I recall it, but fun)

__Series 3__

3×02 The Enterprise Incident

3×07 Day of the Dove (Kang)

3×09 The Tholian Web

3×16 The Mark of Gideon

THEN –> 1st Movie, Star Trek: The Motion Picture (Director’s Edition, aka Director’s Cut) which has a creaky start but is much better after the first 30 minutes. Then Wrath of Khan and finally The Search for Spock.

Lovecraft Annual 2010

26 Thursday Dec 2024

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Bargain alert on Amazon UK, for Lovecraft Annual #4, 2010. Apparently this issue had the full longer “Notes on a Nonentity” autobiographical article. I have my copy ordered, and there’s still one left at the same price. Shipped by Amazon, and can be sent to a locker.

HPLinks #17 – Masonic Lovecraft, Lovecraft as trainspotter, Lovecraft and Science conference, search the Providence Journal archives, and more…

11 Wednesday Dec 2024

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HPLinks #17.

* The journal Fraternal Review, from the Southern California Research Lodge, has a new ‘H.P. Lovecraft and Freemasonry’ special edition. Contents include…

* Harry Houdini and Masonry.
* Lovecraft’s Masonic grandfather.
* Masonic influences on Lovecraft, as well as Lovecraft’s subsequent influences on the occult world.
* Real-life location of the Masonic Lodge that inspired the one taken over in Lovecraft’s “The Shadow Over Innsmouth”.

A $5 digital edition is available. It’s interesting to think what might have happened had Lovecraft taken a different path… able to break into local journalism, then a local magazine editor (he would have been a cert for something like the Hospital Trust magazine The Netopian, with all its local history) and… thus been enticed to join a local Masonic Lodge. Possibly there’s a “what if” Mythos story in that?

* Deep Cuts looks into Her Letters To August Derleth: Muriel E. Eddy, and there are also a few firmer biographical memories found in the article “Mrs. Hinckley’s Providence”. The latter having an item of data on Lovecraft’s youth that I don’t think I’d seen before…

Dorothy Walter, a member of our Short Story Club, said Mr. Lovecraft used to call on her when she was young. About 20 years ago [circa 1946-47] a stranger came from Baltimore and asked Miss Walter and me [Mrs Hinckley] many questions. I only remember that my father knew Mr. Lovecraft and always spoke to him. When we came from Wickford to go to school, Mr. Lovecraft was usually sitting in the Providence railway station, probably because it was nice and warm there.

Presumably the father was taking the girls to the train for school each day, or meeting them off the train, and thus he said ‘hello’ to the boy Lovecraft. This seems quite plausible, though due to Lovecraft’s avid early interest in trains and railroad-men rather than for the warmth (his adult aversion to cold was later known, which probably coloured memories). Deep Cuts puts this at a time when Lovecraft was perhaps 10-12 year old. So maybe 1901-02? I also note that the article also recalls that at that time, at the back of the railway station there was a “beautiful backwater cove”. Tidal and sweet-smelling as she recalled it, but which was later filled in. This huge water feature can be seen on panorama views of the early city. It’s interesting to hear that it may have been known to Lovecraft as a boy. I seem to recall he was to be found, late in life, doing a bit of ‘urban exploring’ in the same location.

* Deep Cuts also has Three Letters to the Editor, 1909, found via the digital archive of the Providence Journal. The topic of Lovecraft’s letters was Robert E. Lee and the South in the Civil War. Also letters from the young Lovecraft on the stage play The Clansman, something which was also debated among amateur journalists some years later — and as such his opinions on it are already well known.

* I see the (new?) Providence Journal Archives search is free, but then any items found are paywalled via individual pricing or a monthly subscription. I’m uncertain if they can take payments from outside the U.S., since payment is via credit card only. $29.95 gets you a one-month ‘unlimited downloads’ pass. Sadly passes cannot be gifted to researchers, since only the cardholder is allowed to use them.

The search-box supports phrases in quote marks e.g. “Ladd Observatory”. As with many old newspapers, however, the OCR of tiny print leaves much to be desired and there are many false-positives and oversights. For instance a search for “Winslow Upton” of the Ladd, will not find some articles that have his name and can be found with “Ladd Observatory”. Still, there are fascinating free snippets available, and even these may give mythos writers a historical hook on which to hang a story…

Found in a few minutes: Winslow Upton of the Ladd Observatory discussed “life on other worlds” in public in 1907. Whipple graves were opened ‘en masse’, 1910. Lovecraft’s beloved River Seekonk was being totally poisoned by sewage outflows, 1923.

* Newly announced, the dates for the Robert E. Howard Days in June 2025.

* The German Lovecraftians have released dates for their annual get-together, 17th to 20th July 2025. In scholarly activity, note that a Literature Team Leader is now required to take forward their ongoing work… “on a volume of essays from German-speaking countries and a translation project for Lovecraft’s letters and essays”.

* In France, a two-day conference at the University of Poitiers on ‘Lovecraft and the Sciences’. 5th-6th December 2024, so sadly it’s been and gone. But here’s the programme in PDF, and I guess there may be recordings on YouTube and/or a book in due course.

* Skulls in the Stars reviews The Opener of the Way by Robert Bloch. Being a “quality edition” of 22 early Bloch stories, published by Valincourt. Has plot spoilers.

* New and free at FantasyBabble (spin-off from HorrorBabble), “A Stroll through the Dreamlands: 13 stories by H.P. Lovecraft”. The reading runs 2 hours 47 minutes, and it has all the Dreamlands stories in audio (except the Randolph Carter tales).

* In early 2025 France’s prestigious comics mega-fest Angouleme will feature a Masterclass with Gou Tanabe, the acclaimed manga adapter of Lovecraft. The event is one of several that will run alongside his large one-man exhibition ‘Gou Tanabe x H.P. Lovecraft’…

The great architect of a mythology which has infused all the world’s popular culture, H.P. Lovecraft has now built a bridge between 20th century New England and 21st century Japan, transcending borders and time, enabling pulp and manga to meet and join hands. This show is an opportunity to verify, once again, how great stories are universal.

* News of another Lovecraft all-night lakeside camp-out near Mexico City. Noctambulante 2025 is a Lovecraft-themed ‘camping and cinema’ event, and this time the organisers also promise that… “Cthulhu will emerge from the depths of Lake Xochimiclo”. Campers are expected to dress in a Lovecraftian manner. Starting on the evening of 29th March 2025, and booking now.

* The well-loved vintage videogame The Thing: Remastered, apparently forthcoming in a new release with… “updated character models, textures, and animations, with the implementation of advanced 3D rendering for updated lighting and atmospheric effects.”

* Also being mooted for a polish, a 40th anniversary Re-Animator edition of the celebrated 1985 comedy-adaptation movie of Lovecraft’s Home Brew shocker “Herbert West: Reanimator”.

* Visualizing Camelot was a 350-item university gallery exhibition surveying the uses of King Arthur in popular culture. The show was developed by subject-expert curators who were able to draw on specialist American and British collections of such material. It’s been and gone but a substantial website remains online.

* And finally, the new online H.P. Lovecraft Translator…


— End-quote —

“I was arrested mainly by the great temple of the Scottish Rite Masons, whose striking architecture lifts it out of the commonplace and mundane into the realm of the cosmick and mystical. Gazing upon it, I could well believe all the vague legends connected with the Masonick order; for here surely dwelt arcana whose sources are not of this earth. I saw it first at night, when only the twin cryptick braziers beside the great bronze door lit up the grim guardian sphinxes and the huge windowless facade. Mystery dwelt there — and I departed full of vague thoughts hinging upon the obscurest of dream-memories.” — Lovecraft on his visit to Washington in 1928.

“The hall retains its pristine impressiveness; its lofty rooms forming the present home of Ionick Lodge, the Masonick branch founded by my grandfather, and of which he was the first Grand Master. It did me good to see his picture there, enshrin’d in proper state.” — Lovecraft visits his grandfather’s Masonic Lodge in 1926.


Public domain in 2025

03 Sunday Nov 2024

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We’re fast approaching the copyright release season, at the start of 2025. Authors who died in 1954, and books and magazines published in 1929. Here are some items I dug up, which may interest Tentaclii readers. Possibly there may be some I’ve missed, and if so please comment.


Writers who died in 1954:

* Edwin Baird, first editor of Weird Tales. Books included…

The City Of Purple Dreams (anon)
The Heart Of Virginia Keep
Fay
Will-O’-The Wisp

In movies, the writers for The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and Dr. Mabuse.


Individual unusual books of interest, from authors who died in 1954:

Verse and voice:

Aesop’s Fables Arranged For Voice.
The Poems Of Wales.
The Anthology Of Nonsense Verse.
[Reed, 1925].

Potential for graphic-novel adaptations?:

Herodotus, Father Of History. [Presumably a popular biography].
Birth Of A Spitfire. [How they were made, 1941].
The Psychology & Tradition Of Colour.

Activities that don’t age:

Clog Dancing Made Easy.
Shell Collector’s Handbook.

And a couple of local items only of interest to myself, but I’ll note them anyway. Louis Mellard, whose 1920s books included the intriguingly titled Lost Romances Of The Midlands, Tramp Artist In Derbyshire, and others.


Books and other publications of note from 1929:

Some of these may already be public-domain due to the author’s death-date.

* Aleister Crowley

Moonchild
The Stratagem and Other Stories

* Frank Owen

The Wind That Tramps the World

* Maurice Reynard

The Hands of Orlac

* Sax Rhomer

Book of Fu-Manchu

* M.P. Shiel.

The Purple Cloud (revision)

* William Seabrook

The Magic Island (first-hand book dealing with voodoo zombies, though a recent Lovecraft Annual essay convincingly shows that Lovecraft had invented the modern horror zombie)

* Joseph Gaer

Burning Bush (Jewish fairy tales)

* Richard Tooker

The Day of the Brown Horde (neolithic ‘ancient man’ novel, well-known in its day)

* John Taine

The Greatest Adventure (Antarctic horror-adventure)

* Forrest Reid

Walter De La Mare; A Critical Study.

* A. A. Milne

Toad of Toad Hall (from the world of Wind in the Willows).

* Lynd Ward

Gods’ Man: a novel in woodcuts. (proto graphic-novel)

* Anthologies

I see The Great Weird Stories (Duffield, 1929), and Master Detective Stories (Clode, 1929).


Known to Lovecraft:

* Bertrand Hart

His Providence Journal “The Sideshow” columns for 1929, in which he jousted with Lovecraft and others.

* de Castro (Lovecraft revisionist)

Portrait of Ambrose Bierce (1929, actually revised by Frank Belknap Long).

* Myrta Alice Little

“Sweet Christmas Time” (published poem, 1929).

* Everett McNeil

The Shores of Adventure; or, Exploring in the New World with Jacques Cartier (1929, though some chicanery appears to have kept his later novels locked-down, when they should not be).

* John L. Balderston

Berkeley Square (1929 published play, later made into a time-travel movie greatly admired by Lovecraft).

Also note O’Brien’s The Dance of the Machines: The American Short Story and the Industrial Age (1929), which was a book admired by Lovecraft.


The 1929 run of Weird Tales and other pulp magazines, and their contents. Note F.B. Long’s “The Hounds of Tindalos”. I’m not looking at detectives in this brief survey, but I see Derleth’s first “Solar Pons” detective stories were written in 1929. Apparently they saw print in the same year, along with the first tales of Dashiell Hammett’s Sam Spade character.

In comics, Buck Rogers and Tintin first appeared in 1929. In cartoons, there’s Popeye the Sailor-man, and apparently the Silly Symphonies(?). Though trademark-trolls may still claim the names.


Finally, in 1929 Gernsback first gave the name ‘science fiction’ to a new literary format. The first science-fiction fanzine appeared, Cosmic Stories. The first continuous science-fiction comic strip appeared, an adaptation of a novel. The first spur for modern ‘sword & sorcery’ also appeared, Robert E. Howard’s “The Shadow Kingdom” (Kull, in Weird Tales). The anthology Beware After Dark! (1929) put Lovecraft’s horror “The Call of Cthulhu” between hardcovers, and the volume had wide popular distribution. The rest is history…

Some changes at Amazon

26 Saturday Oct 2024

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Some interesting findings re: using Amazon UK.

Have you been wondering where all the ‘Warehouse Bargain’ books have gone? I had mused on the possibility that POD printer Lightning Source now had a new printing plant, and so there were no ‘slightly damaged’ POD returns to be had at nice prices. But… I now discover that only by searching in the new Amazon Resale category will you find (for instance, currently) a £15 copy of Lovecraft’s Letters to Family and Family Friends, Volume 2: 1926-⁠1936, sold and shipped by Amazon in ‘acceptable’ condition. Presumably a warehouse return, after a picky purchaser noticed a slight bump or a greasy mark left by a printing-machine? And even then you have to skim through several pages of shovelware drek to find this item. (And if there are no results then it will silently present you with the normal search-results, which is annoying).

This £15 bargain doesn’t show up in the book’s regular page, even in the lower ‘New & Used’ tab. Nor does it show up in your regular ‘sorted by low to high’ search-results.

Another trick is searching Amazon Resale with one word…

HOVSCO Electric will find nothing.

HOVSCO alone will find a heavily discounted HOVSCO Electric bicycle.

But yes, obviously the old ‘Warehouse Bargains’ are there if you know where to look. They can even be shipped to your local Amazon locker. Good to know, though… I guess that by telling readers about this I may lose out on some bargains myself. Oh well, enjoy your slightly-bumped bargains.

Note also that I find that Amazon has started hiding pages-that-exist from search results. For instance, I have Travel and Communication in Tolkien’s Worlds (1996, and reissued in 2020) on my Wish-List, added a year ago. But this no longer shows in search results — not even when using the simplest form of Travel Communication Tolkien as search keywords. Yet the page for it still exists. Amazon is thus no longer comprehensive, and this problem obvious seriously diminishes Amazon’s use as a bibliographic starting-resource for scholars. The problem will also likely push second-hand book-sellers to eBay instead, when they can’t find the page to list their item on.

Sixpenny Marvels

21 Monday Oct 2024

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The Tearoom of Despair bemoans the lack of Marvels in the corner-shop…

you can’t just walk into a shop and buy a new Marvel comic book anywhere. So there is no chance of picking up something random, just because the cover looks aces, because there is nothing there. And they really did use to be everywhere…

Yes, I remember that well. Many small shops in the West Midlands of England had a spinner-rack of usually fairly random-but-recent American monthly imports, often visible from the window and priced for the British in pennies rather than U.S. cents. Sometimes they had a big job-lot of ship-ballast comics (cent-priced, U.S. news-stand returns?)… and then there were huge piles of American dynamite to sort through. And they were not sealed in bags for collectors to salt away unread either. Comics were later pre-bagged in the early dedicated comics-shops which emerged across the UK in the 1980s, and the buyer who wanted to peek inside was often treated as a pest. But in your corner-shops a comic was just cheap six-penny trash, and no-one assumed any lasting value. Which meant you could flip through and check out the art. Was that Incredible Hulk #122 one of the Herb Trimpe classics you had only seen in part in the British B&W Marvel reprint weekly? Or a rush-job where they used a fill-in artist? Nope, it was all Trimpe, and in colour…

I even recall encountering a huge ship-ballast hoard, age 10 in the unlikely spot of the newsagents in a tiny village of Banwell near the holiday resort of Weston-super-Mare. I guess the owner had probably got them dirt-cheap at auction in the port of Bristol or suchlike and hauled them back. The problem was, of course, that even if one could sift out a small run of one title, one lacked the pocket-money to buy them all up.

The British weekly B&W Marvel reprints, however (in which you could sometimes actually follow a story arc across multiple issues), were usually laid and layered on a newsagent’s wide horizontal counter. No spinner-racks, due to the difference in size and paper and the need to accommodate a thick stack of 40 or so. Weekly British comics sold well in those days. Often too well, as that week’s issue was often sold out by the time you arrived. Hence the joy of finding a complete story in an American issue. It wasn’t crudely cut up into three or four weekly parts, one of which you’d missed.

As Tearoom points out, it’s ironic that you can often find the cheesy spin-off Marvel merchandise, but not the actual comics. Still, it’s good that all the pre-PC classics are now easily available, albeit as garishly re-coloured and mummified reprints. For instance, £16 will now get you the Kindle ebook In The Hands Of Hydra, 440 pages of the classic 1968 Roy Thomas / Herb Trimpe Incredible Hulk. Whatever you missed and yearned for when younger, can now be had instantly, and perhaps also shared with interested young relatives. Great for getting boys to keep reading outside of school, I’d imagine. And boys do still read comics, even in an age of abundance with videogames, audiobooks, movies and TV shows galore. A robust National Literary Trust 2023 survey showed that 44% of British boys read comics for pleasure at least once a month, with a modest-but-expected 10% tail-off as they move from age 10 to 17. Sadly the huge survey doesn’t seem to have asked where these comics came from. Nor did they ask about any U.S. superhero / Japanese manga divide in reading tastes.

I would query Tearoom‘s statement that…

there is no chance of picking up something random, just because the cover looks aces, because there is nothing there.

Well, not physically. But if one ventures into the pirate websites, that is the very format. Covers, covers, covers, by date of arrival… and thus mixing new superhero comics, indies, kiddy-humour, and vintage reprints. No walled gardens, no locked-down reader apps. Pretty similar to the old spinner-rack at the corner store, I’d suggest. No sixpences required.

Of course, I’m not condoning piracy here, just pointing out it exists and kids can easily access it. If you have an income to spend, you should be supporting the artists and writers.

Complete Set of Weird Tales

25 Wednesday Sep 2024

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Complete Set of Weird Tales on eBay, in paper. Yours for $150,000 with Buy It Now, in what said to be overall Very Good condition.

More Ornaments in Jade

22 Monday Jul 2024

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Wormwoodania this week draws attention to a book of prose-poems by Arthur Machen. I see that the book, Ornaments in Jade (1924), has since arrived on Archive.org as a good scan. I blogged about it back in 2021, when I also weighed up the chances of Lovecraft having read it before writing Dream Quest.

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