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Get Re-Animated with Blood Thirsty Thursdays

Naturally we look forward to every Blood Thirsty Thursday, but this week’s holds a special place in our cultural landscape. Head over to the Alamo Drafthouse Westlakes this Thursday to see the frightfully funny classic Re-Animator, presented in glorious 35mm.

Re-Animator is a 1985 adaptation of the H.P. Lovecraft story Herbert West – Reanimator and [Read it all...]

Forgotten book: SLAN by A. E. van VogtForgotten book: SLAN by A. E. Van Vogt

SLAN by A. E. Van Vogt, 1940/1946, Arkham House

This is the 43nd in my series of Forgotten Books.

Slan by A.E. Van Vogt

I first read about SLAN in Sam Moskowitz’s interesting overview of the science fiction world SEEKERS OF TOMORROW in the mid 1960’s. Moskowitz examined the field through mini biographies of [Read it all...]

Forgotten Film: DARK INTRUDER (1965)

Forgotten Films: DARK INTRUDER (1965)

This is the 1st in my series of Forgotten Obscure or Neglected Films

Dark Intruder (1965)

Recently Todd Mason, a frequent commenter here on my Forgotten Books columns, asked me to join in with his revival of the Tuesday Forgotten Obscure of Neglected Film (or other Audio Visual medium) [Read it all...]

FORGOTTEN BOOKS: BABY'S FIRST MYTHOS by C.J. Henderson and Erica HendersonFORGOTTEN BOOKS: BABY’S FIRST MYTHOS by C.J. Henderson and Erica Henderson

Baby’s First Mythos by C. J. Henderson and Erica Henderson, © 2004 hard paper covers, Z Man Games

This is the 13th in my series of Forgotten Books

Baby's First Mythos

H. P. Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos were among the first horror I encountered once I moved to San Antonio in 1967. One [Read it all...]

Forgotten Book: The Lovecraft Papers by P. H. CannonForgotten Book: The Lovecraft Papers by P. H. Cannon

The Lovecraft Papers by P. H. Cannon, © 1996 hardback, Science Fiction Bookclub

This is the 6th in my series of Forgotten Books

PH Cannon has played fast and furious with literary characters and real writers in this collection of one novella, three short stories, and an essay. Initially the stories were published in two [Read it all...]

New Sanford Allen story in Innsmouth Free Press

If you’re hankering for a strangely quivering slice of Lovecraftian weird fiction, check out my story “Kali Yuga” is in the latest issue of Innsmouth Free Press.

Innsmouth’s June issue is devoted to multicultural fiction that exports the Lovecraftian the weird tale out of New England so a wider variety of cultures can stare into [Read it all...]

Innsmouth Free Press reels in Innsmouth Free Press reels in “Kali Yuga”

Don't mess with Kali Maa.

I just got word that my short story “Kali Yuga” will be appearing in the upcoming “Multiethnic Issue” of INNSMOUTH FREE PRESS.

IFP is an online publication that features both short fiction inspired by H.P. LOVECRAFT and fictional newspaper reports set in the author’s universe. My story is the former: a classic [Read it all...]