H. P. Lovecraft and His Influence

It's so amusing when Internet trolls try to intimidate or con you, especially when you're a slightly mischievous queer punk yob. Got this email from someone calling themself "Rosemary Sexton": "I am Rosemary. I have the taped video of your cam which shows your indecent stimulated doings and clip you viewed on the porno videos because that website was infected with my backdoor. You happen to look stunning in the video. ... I'll send your video to your friends unless you pay me 3000 USD via bit coin within the next 24 hours." Well, I'm sorry fool; but trying to intimidate someone who dresses as shewn in ye photo to ye right just ain't gonna work. And such a nasty video of me doesn't seem likely, since I have been celibate since ye days when I worked downtown as a male whore in 1983 (it's funny how being a whore can put you off sex...). There are plenty of videos of me on YouTube, but moft of yem are me yakking about books and being an a

When I first saw ye image of Gregory Nemic's cover art for Black Wings of Cthulhu 6  online, I thought someone was playing a joke. That ridiculous example of horror comic art, perhaps something from ye old Creepy  magazine, could not POSSIBLY be ye intended art for a volume in S. T. Joshi's esteem'd BLACK WINGS series. But, bitches, IT IS. Ye rotting corpse is bad enough, but ye addition of bleedin' tentacles is just too much. One of ye "themes", if so I may name it, of S. T.'s Lovecraftian series is that he does NOT include traditional (i.e. typical) mythos stories fill'd with Lovecraftian genre stereotypes. Gawd!! Once we get past the wretched cover, things improve tremendously.  Ye Contents are: Introduction--S. T. Joshi Pothunters--Ann K. Schwader The Girl in the Attic--Darrell Schweitzer The Once and Future Waite--Jonathan Thomas Oude Goden--Lynne Jamneck Carnivorous--William F. Temple On a Dreamland's Moon (poem)--Ashley Dioses