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HPLinks #30 – Dragon-Fly, insectile Lovecraft, weird spaces and landscapes, dead goths, AI Shadow trailer, Barry’s Library, and more…

19 Wednesday Mar 2025

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HPLinks #30.

* On eBay, “two issues of Barlow’s The Dragon-fly, 1935 and 1936. The listing offers some interior pictures.

* New in open-access, the Routledge book The Insectile and the Deconstruction of the Non/Human (2023)… “tracks the insectile across the archives of psychoanalysis, seventeenth century still-life painting, novels from the nineteenth century to the present day, and post-1970s film.” Includes the chapter “The Insectile Informe: H.P. Lovecraft and the Deliquescence of Form”…

What resonates not only throughout Lovecraft’s work, but also across the scholarship establishing and legitimising him as a writer stretching his ear towards the non/in/anti-human, is the discourse of the valorisation of form: ‘man’ — the ultimate apparition of form— emboldened against the murmur, the buzzzzzzzzz of a background without form.

* A new open-access book from Italy, in Italian. In translation the title is Geometries of Terror: architectural spaces and weird literature (February 2025). Includes, in Italian…

   — The Localization of the Supernatural Between Weird and Modernism

   — Howard Phillips Lovecraft’s “The Tomb” and the Representation of Places of the Unknown

   — The Word and the Void: Ghostly Spaces in Western Literature

   — The Architecture of the Unconscious: Hauntings, Places and Non-Places in the Works of Robert Aickman

The book is under Creative Commons Non-commercial, thus translations for a non-profit ‘zine or blog are possible.

* The open-access Journal of the Short Story in English has a new special issue on ‘Creative and Critical Responses to Landscape and Temporality in Short Fiction’ (2024). Includes “Fragmented Temporality, Digression and Experiments in Consciousness Representation: Arthur Machen’s “The White People””.

* Leslie Klinger, talks about his annotated books in a new podcast interview, including his two hefty volumes of annotated Lovecraft.

* I’ve newly found a postcard of the “Dunwich Woods”. Actually of the English Dunwich, perhaps circa the 1920s, but it could easily be from Lovecraft’s Dunwich. Possibly of use to RPG gamers, as part of a prop pack?

“Dunwich Woods”

* The editors of the Cardiff University open-access journal Studies in Gothic Fiction have issued a February 2025 official notice — they have suspended activities and are no longer accepting submissions. The seventh and final issue was themed ‘The Popular and the Weird: H.P. Lovecraft and Twenty-First-Century Adaptation’, and is still available online for now.

* More Lovecraft and modern philosophy. In the Italian PhD thesis Ontologies of the Future in Contemporary Philosophy: Stiegler and Meillassoux (2021), near the end one finds the long chapter “Overpassing Mediation: Meillassoux and Lovecraft”. Meillassoux being a French philosopher. Freely available online, in English and open-access.

* In Spain, the event CTHULHUton 2025 at the end of March 2025…

* Comic-book industry/history magazine publisher TwoMorrows has been left unpaid, following the financial collapse of the huge Diamond distributor. Diamond had long distributed comics and associated niche magazines to retail stores. TwoMorrows ask readers of their long-running ongoing magazines (Cryptology, RetroFan, Comic Book Creator, Jack Kirby Collector, etc), to “renew their magazine subscriptions” if possible, to help with cashflow. To those of us in the UK they’re offering “new lower international shipping rates” or bookshop distribution via Turnaround Distribution. Lovecraftians everywhere may be especially interested in the one-off monster books page.

* On YouTube, an impressive trailer/visual-pitch for a big-budget movie adaptation of “The Shadow Out of Time”.

* And finally, the sumptuous illustrated catalogue for the auction of The Library Of Barry Humphries, 26th March 2025. Freely available online, as a .PDF file. Slaver over the gothic and weird goodies you could have had, if only you’d sold a couple of bitcoins and the auctioneer’s hammer had fallen in your favour.

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“[On the streets of College Hill] I acquired a fascinated reverence for the past — the age of periwigs and three-cornered hats and leather-bound books with long-fs. My taste for the latter was augmented by the fact that there were many in the family library — most of them in a black windowless attic room to which I was half-afraid to go alone, yet whose terror-breeding potentialities really increased for me the charm of the archaic volumes I found and read there. […] Living in an ancient town amidst ancient books, I followed Addison, Hope, and Dr. Johnson as my models in prose and verse; and literally lived in their peri-wigged world, ignoring the world of the present.” — Lovecraft, “Ec’h-Pi-El Speaks”.

“As a devotee of the past, I have naturally read more English than American books, and have felt profoundly the charm of those scenes and events amongst which my race-stock was moulded and developed; so that my conception of home and of natural beauty has come to centre in that soil around which so vast a majority of ancestral associations hover — “This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.” — Lovecraft, “In Defence of Dagon”.

“I am not really literary in the purest sense of the word. Books & authors, as such, do not interest me; since I want only what they transmit. It is beauty — the beauty of wonder, of antiquity, of landscape, of architecture, of horror, of light & shadow, line & contour, of mystic memory & hallowed tradition — that I worship, & I never think of talking about books when I can talk of the stars or the hills or the abbey towers of dim, far lands or the steep roofs that cluster on the slopes of archaic towns. That is why I have read so relatively little, & why science with its breathless mysteries & inconceivable vistas has so often crowded mere letters from my sphere of paramount interest.” — Lovecraft to Donald Wandrei, February 1927.

“So many promising & deeply interested weird fans live in places where bizarre books are unobtainable — places like Milltown, Mont., Asotin, Wash., Auburn, Cal., West Shokan, N.Y., &c. &c. — that we feel we ought to give them the benefit of whatever volumes of the sort we may chance to possess. Hence a rather active programme of borrowing is carried out among ‘the gang’. And it is not only the small-towners who need to borrow — for even the largest city libraries are sometimes devoid of the most important weird items.” — Lovecraft, to Natalie H. Wooley, January 1935, on the ‘underground library’ he helped to run in the 1930s.

HPLinks #28 – Whelan and Mountains, authenticity, REH Borak audiobooks, Sinking City 2, and more…

05 Wednesday Mar 2025

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HPLinks #28.

* Artist Micheal Whelan recalls his career breakthrough 1976: Year in Review (Part One)…

Staking everything on a letter from Donald Wollheim that promised a [book] cover assignment, bolstered by recent success selling his work at conventions, Michael packed his VW Beetle and with trailer in tow headed to New York City to pursue illustration…

At the foot of this portion from his pleasingly-illustrated memoirs, Whelan also notes that he will shortly be…

adding a small preliminary painting from [Lovecraft’s] “At The Mountains of Madness” to our shop. An exclusive preview of the original art will be available for our paid subscribers on Substack before the art is released to our shop on Wednesday, 5th March [2025] at 11am EST

* In the new £140 academic libraries book on Authenticity and Adaptation (Palgrave, Feb 2025), the chapter “”I have looked upon all that the universe has to hold of horror”: The Authentic Lovecraftian Image in Film and Television”. Seeks to identify an authentic core of Lovecraft-inspired visual media, amid its exuberant abundance…

The ‘Lovecraftian’ can be seen everywhere in twenty-first-century visual culture.

* New in Italian and available via Amazon Italy, Yog-sothothery, Oltre La Soglia Dell’immaginario Di H.P. Lovecraft (‘Yog-Sothothery: H.P. Lovecraft Beyond the Threshold of Imagination’) (October 2024). Being a multi-author volume of what sounds to me like literary essays, in Italian. The essayists explore Lovecraft’s…

fantastic stories, considered among the most innovative and intense ever committed to paper, [in] seven essays […] which take the premise that ‘to appreciate Lovecraft you need to have suffered a lot’.

* At the University of Rennes, France, the three-day Le Festival Sirennes. Set for 20th-22nd March 2025…

* In Spanish, another journal review of the book A traves del abismo: H.P. Lovecraft y el horror ontologico (2024) (‘Through the Abyss: H.P. Lovecraft and ontological horror’). Freely available in open-access.

* The German Lovecraftians want a team leader for their Literature Team, which is…

currently working on a volume of essays from German-speaking countries, and a translation project of Lovecraft’s letters and essays

Also, some readers may wish to know that the Tolkien Society’s Amon Hen mag-a-journal is still seeking a volunteer graphic designer, and has been for over a year now.

* New on YouTube, Robert E. Howard’s “Blood of the Gods” (featuring his El Borak adventurer character) in audiobook, Part One and Part Two (120 minutes total). Plus another El Borak tale “The Daughter of Erlik Khan” (150 minutes). Both with a good professional reader. Since the 2012 El Borak audiobook is off-the-market (read from the Del Ray collection by another reader, Michael McConnohie) and totally unavailable, these seemingly-new El Borak recordings are very welcome. Several commenters complain about “ads” in these YouTube readings, but I assume they’re somehow clueless about ad-blockers and/or .MP3 YouTube downloader freeware such as that offered by MediaHuman.

* Want even more desert adventure from Robert E. Howard? Yup, there’s more, via a free audiobook from Horrorbabble reading “King of the Forgotten People” (53 minutes). 1930s adventurer Jim Brill goes seeking a missing scientist in the far reaches of the Gobi Desert.

* Also of note in free audiobooks. New and free on Librivox, the collection The Lost Valley and Other Stories by Algernon Blackwood. Also The Magician by Somerset Maugham. The latter centres on a lightly disguised Aleister Crowley circa 1907/08, and… Lovecraft it is not. Though the final description of the creepy Victorian house interior in the Staffordshire Moorlands is well done.

* One of the best big-budget Lovecraftian videogames of recent years now has a Kickstarter page for its planned sequel, The Sinking City 2. The campaign launches on 6th March 2025.

* Possibly of use for Mythos writers for games, the free Llama-3.1-8B-BeyondReality, a relatively lightweight free and local AI specifically designed for suggesting “interactive fiction scenarios” for “text-based adventures”.

* And finally, E-Arkham makes a growing series of fab monsters for the free 3D software DAZ Studio. Load, pose, choose a suitable eerie lighting preset, and then render in 3D. And potentially also then use these renders as seeds for AI enhancements / stylisation in Stable Diffusion. All his items are rather expensive at present, but those experienced in DAZ and Poser know to Wishlist and then come back when the big 70%-80% discount sales are on. All royalty-free, so you can use your renders commercially if you wish.

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“The advent of Spring — even technically — is surely pleasant to think of. — […] a warm day sent me splashing through the mud & melting snow of the fields & woods […] I never before saw the ponds & brooks so high — & when I crossed the broad gorge of the Blackstone I found the lower banks [of the river] completly over-flowed; with great trees & cottage roofs projecting above an aqueous expanse like reliques of sunken Atlantis.” — Lovecraft to Toldridge, 29th March 1934.

“A sense of rushing through chartless corridors seized me, and I saw dates dancing in aether—1923—1924—1925—1926—1925—1924—1923—crash! Two years to the bad, but who the hell gives a damn? 1923 ends 1926 begins! Even the spring had delay’d so that I might see it break over Novanglia’s [New England’s] antient hills! I have lost 1924 and 1925 [to New York City], but the dawn of vernal 1926 is just as lovely as I view it from Rhodinsular [Rhode Island] windows! […] There is no other place for me. My world is Providence. […] The vista from my pseudo-ariel desk corner [at 10 Barnes St.] is delectable — bits of antique houses, stately trees, urn-topp’d white Georgian fence, and an ecstatic old-fashion’d garden which will be breathlessly transporting in a couple of months. Westward, from the brow of the hill, the view is awesome and prodigious — all the roofs, spires, and domes of the lower town, and beyond them the violet expanse of the far rolling rural meadows. [The State House and its] proud copper dome is the dominating feature of the Providence skyline. The view from this dome is said to be absolutely unparalleled — countless steepled towns, league on league of undulating countryside, and the beautiful blue bay to the south, gemmed with emerald islets. One can, the genial sexton says, see as far as Newport on good days; and he has promised to let me up there with a spy glass whenever I feel like making the climb.” — Lovecraft to Belknap Long, 1st May 1926, on Lovecraft’s return home from his long exile in New York City.

“… glimpses of a charming and mysterious gap in the far-off, vapour-wreath’d purple hills. There birds sang, and the sun filter’d down thro’ delicate vernal foliage and trac’d strange faery patterns on the grass and sand of the lane.” — Lovecraft describing his habitual place of outdoor writing, used daily while visiting Dwyer in “the West Shokan hinterland”. — Lovecraft, Travels in the Provinces of America, 1929.

“And so I emerg’d from under the Roman arch and beheld the city. The morning sun was high and brilliant, and the summerish air told me at once that I had at last set foot in that gentle Old South of which I have so often dream’d. Green and white were omnipresent — springtime leaves and grass, and delectable expanses of aethereal cherry-blossoms …” — Lovecraft in Washington, to Aunt Lillian, 21st April 1925.

Wayne June (1954-2025)

31 Friday Jan 2025

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Red Hook Studios and others have confirmed that Wayne June — for many ‘the voice of Lovecraft’ — has recently passed away. June’s signature weighty voice is heard on many of the finest audiobook readings of Lovecraft’s tales. In these, he has left us a great legacy.

June also billed himself as “audio producer, drummer, singer”. Born in 1954, he began performing with a rock band when aged 15, and he continued to play with a wide variety of 1970s and 80s live and studio bands on a paying basis. He later spent seven years touring every U.S. state, and also internationally, with his guitar hero Johnny Winter. June was the drummer on Winter’s acclaimed album I’m a Bluesman (2004).

Establishing himself as a professional voice artist circa 1998, he was able to draw on his extensive studio experience. But he also trained his voice to audiobook perfection with lessons at Edge Studios in New York, by volunteering for many and varied recordings at Recording for the Blind (RFB&D), and by taking acting classes. His voiceover and audiobook business appears to have been based in Shelton, Connecticut (near New Haven and a little north-east of New York City).

Having grown up reading horror, science-fiction and Lovecraft paperbacks, it was natural that he would want to professionally record such material in readings. His breakthrough narrations were of Lovecraft (the extensive Dark Worlds of H.P. Lovecraft series), three volumes of Poe and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (for his own AudioBookCase venture), and many others (for AudioRealms and others). In recent years he was best known as the narrator (‘The Ancestor’) of the popular Darkest Dungeon videogames (2016-, Red Hook Studios), an extensive performance and a core part of the game’s experience.

A relatively recent horror fandom podcast interview with him is still online, Final Guys #70 – Wayne June Interview (2018).

Doubtless someone with the required skills will be compiling a comprehensive Wayne June discography in due course. Possibly some ‘lost’ recordings will also be uncovered. For instance, he talked of recording Lovecraft’s The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, but (if recorded) this is apparently unreleased.

Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath in audiobook

06 Saturday Jul 2024

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Something for the weekend? Here are some listenable choices for hearing an unabridged reading of The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, in audiobook.

* By the venerable HorrorBabble, free on YouTube. Four hours. The closest to a British accent.

* By Dagoth Ur, free on YouTube. Three hours and 40 mins. Good, but you may want to de-echo it with iZotope RX 7 and then slow it down a bit in the player. Too fast, too much ballroom echo.

* As the SFFaudio Podcast #354, freely online. Nicely paced in five hours, but still a difficult listen in terms of distinguishing the separate words. That may just be down to a variety of American accent unfamiliar to my ear, though. You may have more success. Download available. The discussion came later, in another podcast.

* In paid-for there’s the HPL Historical Society’s Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft audiobook. A clear steady reading by a professional actor. Probably the best choice if you can afford the £40. Too fast for me, at four hours and 23 minutes. For the AIMP player I used a speed of 93%, ‘Voice’ preset in the Equalizer, and a Bass boost.

* You might even pop the text into a Word .DOC, then make sure there is no text that flows across page-breaks. Then save it to a PDF, and drop that into the Microsoft Edge browser. Edge currently offers sustained text-to-speech reading of a PDF, with Microsoft’s advanced AI TTS voices. These are free in Edge, and would otherwise be paid-for.

There is, as yet, no Phil Dragash-like unabridged ‘fully voice-worked’ reading, with music and environmental FX. Note that there are now AI sound FX makers to help things along. Another local one was released just the other day, Stable Audio Open.

Gordon Gould, 1930-2023 – narrator of Lovecraft’s tales

01 Monday Jul 2024

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I was sorry to hear that Gordon Gould, the excellent ‘Books for the Blind’ narrator of Lovecraft’s tales, has passed away at age 93, in February 2023. I discovered this via a short alt.obituaries newsgroup post…

Gordon Gould was also noted for recording an astonishing 600+ books over several decades for American Foundation for the Blind’s (AFB) Talking Book Studios under the auspices of the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) division of the Library of Congress.

Possibly more than that, as I see a LoC search has 1,133 titles for him, as narrator, in the online AFB catalogue. It might be useful if someone could go through them all and winnow out a links-list of all the fantastic fiction readings. I also see other interesting items there, such as Lovecraft’s Selected Letters I as an Arkham House audiobook (though not read by Gould).

His ‘Books for the Blind’ reading of the Lovecraft collection Dagon and Other Macabre Tales can be found on Archive.org and despite the title it includes many Dreamlands tales. This appears to be the only Lovecraft he recorded, and he never read Dream Quest. What a treat that would have been.

On searching, I find The Putney Post had an obituary and small photo…

Gordon Gould Jr. passed away peacefully in his Manhattan apartment on February 26, 2023. He was 92 years old. He will be remembered not only as a talented professional, but also as a loving family man and friend.

Gordon joined the Chicago Tribune as a feature writer in June 1956. Gordon was awarded the 1961 Edward Scott Beck Award for Excellence in Foreign News Reporting for his story of an adventure-packed, four and one-half month trip in which he and 11 others were the first to drive passenger cars — three bright red Corvairs — from Chicago to the Panama Canal along the Inter-American Highway. At the time, the route included a then-unfinished link through the virtually unmapped Darién jungle.

Growing up before the advent of television, Gordon yearned to be a radio actor. But by the time he was old enough to be one, radio dramas had largely disappeared. When he moved to New York, he was overjoyed to discover the CBS Radio Mystery Theater and to be invited to join its pool of actors. Gordon eventually played in 60 episodes of Mystery Theater from 1974 to 1982, and was the last American actor to portray Sherlock Holmes on a nationally syndicated radio show. Gordon played villain General Veers in the radio adaptation of The Empire Strikes Back, alongside Mark Hamill (as Luke Skywalker), Billy Dee Williams (as Lando Calrissian) and John Lithgow (as Yoda). The program first aired on NPR in the United States in 1983.

Gordon was the voice of countless radio and TV commercials. And, over 34 years, Gordon brought books to life for the visually impaired, recording more than 600 Talking Books for the Blind for the Library of Congress. Gordon was also a regular on-stage presence.

Gordon and his beloved wife of 51 years, Mary, were avid patrons of the arts, particularly opera. They regularly traveled across the United States and Europe to attend operas and music concerts. Their Manhattan apartment was a modern-day Parisian salon with friends gathering regularly to listen to music (including a recital of all of Chopin’s piano études) and exchange ideas. They frequently discussed the arts, travels, and global affairs. Gordon’s career and mind were impressive, but no more so than his gentle, loving nature. He was predeceased by his wife, Mary, and his dear son John Kinzie Gould. Gordon is survived by his beloved daughter and grandsons, Nell Gould, and Cooper and Griffin Gould.

CBS Radio Mystery Theater website has a listing of his programmes, and another small picture in uniform (perhaps made in the early 1950s).

Not to be confused with his namesake, who invented the laser.

Annals of the Jinns / Sorcery of Aphlar

26 Wednesday Jun 2024

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New on Librivox, The Weird Fiction of The Fantasy Fan. Including R.H. Barlow’s complete ‘Annals of the Jinns’ series. Also Lovecraft’s possible 1934 revision of a short tale by the emerging young Rimel, “The Sorcery of Aphlar”…

“Very glad to see the new tale [Sorcery of Aphlar] — which reminds me somewhat of Dunsany. I’m returning it with a few changes which I think would help somewhat. … [also] I’ve taken the liberty of changing the name of the hero …” (23rd July 1934)

Which could be Lovecraft-ese for ‘I’ve ripped it to shreds and re-written it’, or perhaps he did make only a few tweaks. We don’t know. The first two thirds often reads like a Lovecraft tale of the Dreamlands. However, we do know from the letters that Lovecraft finds Rimel’s next tale much better, and therefore he only gives it a light revision…

“The Jewels of Sharlotte” … marks a vast amount of progress … Good work! … as you may see I haven’t made a single major change. Just a few re-arrangements and substitutions, & it stands as originally written.” (23d August 1934, Lovecraft’s emphasis).

This might be taken to mean that the previous and lesser tale had had major changes and re-writing to make it fit for publication. The same letter reveals no quibbles from Rimel about the revision, but celebrates in passing that “Sorcery of Aphlar” had just “landed with Hornig” in The Fantasy Fan.

The tale adds a new and very minor Tolkien/Lovecraft comparison. Both managed to anthropomorphise a snail in fiction, though it was probably Rimel’s idea to do so here.

Myths and Myth-Makers in audiobook

18 Tuesday Jun 2024

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New on YouTube, a seven-hour audio reading of Myths and Myth-Makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology by the American historian, philosopher, bookman, and lecturer John Fiske. He introduced Darwin to America, wrote a book on the early history of New England (Lovecraft had it in his personal library), and another which outlined “cosmic” philosophy, among many other accomplishments. This particular book on myth was written while Fiske was a philosophy lecturer and assistant librarian at Harvard, and it became a key source for Lovecraft’s knowledge of the early ethnography of folk-tale, fairy and myth…

HPL was much influenced by Fiske’s popular study, Myths and Myth-Makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology” (Collected Essays: Science, page 318).

The reading is very likely to be by an AI voice, but how you tell that has changed since the days of the old robo-voices. It’s now a telltale of AI that the narrator pronounces a wide range of really complex ancient names correctly every time. The days of text-to-speech garble-de-gook appear to be gone! Usefully, for those who want to check the names as they hear them, the YouTube video displays the text of the book along with the narration.

Though you can also find the book it in a good clean scan on Archive.org. Or on Project Gutenberg in plain HTML, which is more easily searched.

Incidentally, readers of Tentaclii may also be interested in this amusing paragraph on Fiske from an old issue of the Skeptical Enquirer, which notes that Fiske also became an expert on eccentric ‘crank’ writers…

In his [late] essay “Some Cranks and their Crotchets” he relates that, when he was librarian at Harvard and trying to straighten out the card catalogue, he came across many books that seemed to be listed under the wrong categories. […] Fiske proposed to group these crank publications under “Insane Literature”. However, it was called to his attention that this appellation might hurt the feelings of certain living authors, so he decided to change the classification to “Eccentric Literature”. During the course of this reclassification project, Fiske became familiar with much of the eccentric literature of the day. In his case familiarity bred contempt. […] Fiske [in his essay] then proceeds to survey the cranks and crotchets of the nineteenth century.”

Lovecraft and Felis

11 Tuesday Jun 2024

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A new, human reading on YouTube, of two short Christmas poems by Lovecraft.

Christmas Greetings to Felis (Frank Belknap Long’s cat)

Little Tiger, burning bright
With a subtle Blakeish light,
Tell what visions have their home
In those eyes of flame and chrome!
Children vex thee — thoughtless, gay —
Holding when thou wouldst away:
What dark lore is that which thou,
Spitting, mixest with thy meow?

   (“Blakeish” = William Blake, the ‘Tiger, Tiger’ poet).

Egyptian Christmas

Haughty Sphinx, whose amber eyes
Hold the secrets of the skies,
As thou ripplest in thy grace,
Round the chairs and chimney-place,
Scorn on thy patrician face:
Rise not harsh, nor use thy claws
On the hand that gives applause —
Good-will only doth abide
In these lines at Christmastide!

And here is the tiger-striped Felis, being held by Lovecraft…

The Moon Terror

02 Sunday Jun 2024

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The Moon Terror by Albert G. Birch, new on Librivox as a three-hour audiobook.

It was issued as an offshoot of Weird Tales, drawing on their first four years of stories. As S.T. Joshi has it…

The Popular Fiction Publishing Company did publish one book in 1927 — The Moon Terror, with stories by A. G. Birch, Anthony M. Rud, Vincent Starrett, and [editor] Wright himself, all from early issues of Weird Tales — but it was such a commercial disaster that no more books of the sort were issued.

The new recording is just the Birch story, which was the lead item in the ill-fated volume.