In the Mountains of Madness
The Life, Death, and Extraordinary Afterlife of H.P. Lovecraft

”H. P. Lovecraft found in his personal dreamlands a place he considered no less real than the physical world, dimensions of the imagination that Poe never uncovered despite the help of morphine, opium, and booze.” Vivid night terrors seems to be a common thread that connect authors like Robert Lo......more

HP Lovecraft must be in the top three all time worst writers ever and maybe he is actually the worst. Here’s an example: I felt the strangling tendrils of a cancerous horror whose roots reached into illimitable pasts and fathomless abysms of the night that broods beyond time His puerile most-purple-ev......more

My first copy of "The Call of Cthulhu and Other Stories" ([URL not allowed]) was a present from a friend who had bought it after reading an interview with Neil Gaiman (yes, him again! It always comes back to Neil, doesn't it?) where he talked about the huge influence Lovecraft......more

(Reprinted from the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography [cclapcenter.com]. I am the original author of this essay, as well as the owner of CCLaP; it is not being reprinted illegally.) As W. Scott Poole rightfully says in his new book, In the Mountains of Madness, despite how we long-time fa......more

It was hard for me to pick a rating for this book. It was by a cultural historian writing about Lovecraft, but ended up being a fans ode to HPL’s writing. Intitally I got this book thinking that it would be a non-biased history. But it didn’t turn out that way. I will say that it is a good source boo......more