Map of Clarke Ashton Smith's Zothique by Tim Kirk
February 14, 2012
Map of Clarke Ashton Smith’s ‘Zothique’ by Tim Kirk
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My Other Blog ‘Myriad Lives’- ‘Without the Spirit the World of Mankind is Lifeless’ May 31, 2012‘Abdu’l-Bahá contrasts our present unbalanced material civilisation with that of a civilisation which balances the spiritual and material. ‘And among the teachings of Bahá’u’lláh is that although material civilization is one of the means for the progress of the world of mankind, yet until it becomes combined with divine civilization the desired result, which […]
- ‘The Wiles of Politicians and Diplomats’ May 25, 2012In 1912 in Boston, Massachusetts ‘Abdu’l-Bahá highlighted the immorality of war and international politics. “A man who kills another man is punished by execution, but a military genius who kills one hundred thousand of his fellow creatures is immortalized as a hero. One man steals a small sum of money and is imprisoned as a thief. [...]
- ‘Close Your Eyes To The Deficiencies Of Other Souls’ May 17, 2012One of the aspects of the teachings of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá which impresses me is that of concentrating on one’s own spiritual development and not dwelling on the faults of others. ‘Wherefore must the friends of God, with utter sanctity, with one accord, rise up in the spirit, in unity with one another, to such a degree [...]
- ‘The Exponents Of Divine Philosophy’ May 11, 2012Bahá’u’lláh elucidates the relationship between the prophets and the philosophers of classical times. ‘The sages aforetime acquired their knowledge from the Prophets, inasmuch as the latter were the Exponents of divine philosophy and the Revealers of heavenly mysteries. Men quaffed the crystal, living waters of Their utterance, while others satisfied themsel […]
- ‘This Limitless Universe Is Like The Human Body’ May 3, 2012‘Abdu’l-Bahá made a profound comparison of the universe with the human body. ‘…this limitless universe is like the human body, all the members of which are connected and linked with one another with the greatest strength. How much the organs, the members and the parts of the body of man are intermingled and connected for [...]
- ‘Without the Spirit the World of Mankind is Lifeless’ May 31, 2012
- Mythopoeic Society
- The Fantasy Novels of Verlyn Flieger May 29, 2012[This review originally appeared in Mythprint 49:3 (#356) in March 2012.] Dipping a Pail into the River of Story Commenting on his writing of The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien says such a story “grows like a seed in the dark out of the leaf-mould of the mind: out of all that has been seen [...]
- Mythopoeic Awards: 2012 Finalists Announced May 23, 2012The Mythopoeic Society has announced the finalists for the 2012 Mythopoeic Awards. Download the press release in PDF format. For more information about the awards, visit the Awards section of this site; the finalists for the literature awards, text of recent acceptance speeches, and selected book reviews are also listed in this section. The winners of this [ […]
- Picturing Tolkien May 22, 2012Janice M. Bogstad and Philp E. Kaveny’s Picturing Tolkien has a preface, introduction and sixteen papers divided into two sections: “Techniques of Story and Structure” and “Techniques of Character and Culture.” The paper most crucial to both the “Story and Structure” and “Character and Culture” sections is John D. Rateliff’s “Two Kinds of Absence: Elision [. […]
- The Fantasy Novels of Verlyn Flieger May 29, 2012
- Tentacli
- Monsters and the Monstrous: future anxieties June 1, 2012
- Little Fugitive (1953) June 1, 2012
- Adapting Lovecraft June 1, 2012Ng Suat Tong’s new article, “Adapting Lovecraft” for comics, with a big selection of artwork and pages.
- A Shadow out of Providence May 30, 2012
- Ghoulish Goodies May 28, 2012The cupcake creative revolution vs. monsters! Monsters win…
- British Fantasy Society
- Shadow Plays by Reggie Oliver. Book reviewSHADOW PLAYS by Reggie Oliver, Egaeus Press 2012 , hardcover £ 30.00 Reviewed by Mario Guslandi Reggie Oliver’s astonishing debut collection “The Dreams of Cardinal Vittorini” was published in 2003 by the now defunct Haunted River press, followed, two years later, but the equally phenomenal collection “ The Complete Symphonies of Adolf Hitler” from the [...] […]
- Two-book teen ghost deal with S&S for Curtis JoblingVenetia Gosling, Editorial Director of Simon & Schuster Children’s Books in London, has acquired world rights in two teenage ghost novels by Curtis Jobling. The first novel, entitled Haunt, will be published in 2013, with the sequel following in 2014. The agent was John Jarrold. Curtis is the author of four Wereworld fantasy novels published [...]
- Postscripts #28/29 – Exotic Gothic 4 by guest editor Danel Olson – available for pre-orderThe latest issue of Postscripts is now available for pre-order from PS Publishing. This bumper anthology – Postscripts #28/29 – is entitled Exotic Gothic 4 and edited by guest editor Danel Olson. Olson explains: “In 2006, I floated a concept I created called Exotic Gothic to over seventy publishers around the world. It was an [...]
- Small Press Expo! (Forbidden Planet)When: June 30, 2012 @ 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm Where: Forbidden Planet Megastore, 179 Shaftesbury Ave, London,Greater London WC2H 8JR, UK Saturday 30 June 2012 13:00 - 14:30 London Megastore, 179 Shaftesbury Avenue, London, WC2H 8JR On Saturday 30th June, at the Forbidden Planet London Megastore, we will be hosting an event with a difference – welcoming a host of […]
- Brian Aldiss confirmed as GoH at World Fantasy Con 2013World Fantasy Convention 2013 is honoured to welcome multiple award-winning author, poet, artist, actor and raconteur Brian W. Aldiss as its second Special Guest. Brian has written in almost every genre, including science fiction, fantasy, horror, historical and humorous fiction, as well as non-fiction and poetry. Among his many acclaimed novels are Non-Stop […]
- Doctor Who tie-in signing at Forbidden PlanetWhen: June 21, 2012 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm Where: Forbidden Planet Megastore, 179 Shaftesbury Ave, London,Greater London WC2H 8JR, UK Thursday 21 June 2012 18:00 - 19:00 London Megastore, 179 Shaftesbury Avenue, London, WC2H 8JR To celebrate the release of BBC Books’ six classic Doctor Who titles, each featuring Chris Achilleos’ stunning cover art and based o […]
- Frances Hardinge signing new YA novel in OxfordWhen: June 7, 2012 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Where: Blackwells, 48-51 Broad Street, Oxford OX1 3BQ, Uk Frances Hardinge: A Face Like Glass Thursday 7 June 2012 at 2pm Come and join Frances Hardinge in our Children's Department on Thursday June at 2pm. Frances will be reading from her new YA novel "A Face Like Glass" and signing copies of her books. […]
- Hammer Films event at Phoenix Square, LeicesterWhen: July 13, 2012 – July 14, 2012 (all-day) Where: Phoenix Digital Arts Centre, Midland St, Leicester LE1 1TG, UK Phoenix Square, Leicester Friday 13 - Saturday 14 July 2012 Hammer Has Risen From the Grave! Tickets: £75 / £65 conc. Full programme including film schedule to be announced soon, early booking is strongly advised Join us in July as Phoenix and […]
- Sci-Fi Fest at Phoenix Square, LeicesterWhen: July 28, 2012 (all-day) Where: Phoenix Digital Arts Centre, Midland St, Leicester LE1 1TG, UK Phoenix Square, Leicester Saturday 28 July 2012 Sci-Fi Fest returns to Phoenix for a 2nd year! Phoenix and the lovely people of StarBase Leicester are proud to bring back Sci-Fi fest for another 12-hour day of brilliant movies, stalls and games! The full progr […]
- Weird Tales seeking submissions once againWeird Tales, now under new management, is once again open to submissions. Each issue will feature a theme, with half of that issue “devoted to strange and innovative takes on that theme. This also means that half of each issue will be devoted to the unclassifiable and eclectic tales that have always been the soul [...]
- Shadow Plays by Reggie Oliver. Book review
- Project Gutenberg
- PG Monthly Newsletter (2012-05-02) May 2, 2012
- PG Monthly Newsletter (2012-04-04) April 4, 2012
- PG Monthly Newsletter (2012-03-07) March 7, 2012
- PG Monthly Newsletter (2012-02-04) February 4, 2012
- PG Newsletter Archives: 2012 February 4, 2012
- Weird Fiction Review
- Interview: Eric Schaller and Weird Art May 29, 2012Eric Schaller is a writer and illustrator living in New Hampshire. Possessing a unique, precise, and decidedly weird aesthetic, he has contributed art to publications such as Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet and Last Drink Bird Head, in the case of the latter creating the illustration that provided the inspiration for that anthology. He has also contributed […]
- The Uncanny Art of Eric Schaller May 29, 2012Eric Schaller is a writer and illustrator possessing a unique, precise, and decidedly weird aesthetic. He has contributed art to publications such as Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, Last Drink Bird Head, and Jeff VanderMeer’s Ambergris story cycle, most notably in the chapbook of “The Exchange,” later included in the Ambergris collection City of Saints an […]
- Leng May 22, 2012Marc Laidlaw (1960–) is an eclectic American writer of science fiction and horror whose long career has included a stint in the cyberpunk movement and significant contributions to the popular Half-Life video game series. Laidlaw first started publishing idiosyncratic, hard-to-define short fiction in the late 1970s, but is perhaps best known for writing Dad’s […]
- Replacements May 21, 2012Lisa Tuttle (1952 – ) is an American writer of fantastical fiction who lives in Scotland. An early member of the Turkey City Writer’s Workshop, she won the 1974 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in Science Fiction. Her first novel came out in 1980 and was co-written with George R. R. Martin. [...]
- When the Dead Speak, You Had Better Listen May 15, 2012“Remember: Ignore the warnings your parents gave you as children. Be nosy and talk to strangers. Wander. If you sit in one place all night you will miss everything. If you have any questions or need assistance come and find me. I will whisper secrets in your ear. Cheers, Cynthia von Buhler Send from the [...]
- The Weird Compendium Contest: Win a Big Box of Weird! May 14, 2012(Items shown for dramatization only; actual contents of big box of weird much, much stranger…) Want to win a Big Box of Weird that includes a hardcover copy of The Weird compendium signed by editors Ann and Jeff VanderMeer? That’s right, not just a copy of the huge, 800,000-word anthology including 116 stories that’s been written [...]
- Flow Chart of the Damned: Stephen Graham Jones on Weird Fiction May 10, 2012(Stephen Graham Jones’ Flowchart of the Weird) Writer and professor Stephen Graham Jones has been teaching a course at the University of Colorado on weird fiction, using The Weird compendium. His story “Little Lambs”–one of our favorites–is included in the anthology. As part of that class, he had his students create flowcharts to differentiate The [...] […]
- The Dissection: An Extolment May 10, 2012Recently, Stephen Graham Jones taught our The Weird compendium for a course on the weird at the University of Colorado. As part of that course, he had his students engage with the weird directly by rewriting/re-imagining stories from the anthology. Below you’ll find Adam Bishop’s extolment of “The Dissection” by Georg Heym, which we posted earlier [...] […]
- Weirdfictionreview.com’s 101 Weird Writers: #7 – Georg Heym May 9, 2012This post is part of an ongoing series on 101 weird writers featured in The Weird compendium, the anthology that serves as the inspiration for this site. There is no ranking system; the order is determined by the schedule of posts. Georg Heym (1887– 1912) was a German poet and playwright who also wrote one novel. Heym [...]
- Amos Tutuola: An Interview with Yinka Tutuola May 8, 2012Amos Tutuola (1920 – 1997) was a largely self-taught Nigerian writer who became internationally praised for books based in part on Yoruba folktales, especially the phantasmagorical classic The Palm-Wine Drinkard (1952). Welsh poet Dylan Thomas called the novel “thronged, grisly and bewitching,” bringing it even more attention. From the perspective of weird […]
- Interview: Eric Schaller and Weird Art May 29, 2012
- The Robert E. Howard United Press Association
- REH Word of the Week: mowing June 4, 2012transitive verb 1. to cut down with a scythe or sickle or machine; to kill or destroy in great numbers or mercilessly [origin: before 12th century; Middle English, from Old English mawan; akin to Old High German maen to mow, Latin metere to reap, mow, Greek aman] HOWARD’S USAGE: Behind the Veil what gulfs of [...]
- Howard Days is Just Around the Corner! May 29, 2012The best two days in Robert E. Howard Fandom are nigh upon us! I hope to see a number of both old and new Howard fans at Robert E. Howard Days in Cross Plains June 7-8-9; we’ve got some excellent events planned along with some great Texas grub to keep you fueled for all the [...]
- REH Word of the Week: gannet May 28, 2012
- REH Word of the Week: bulbous May 21, 2012
- REH Word of the Week: asphodel May 14, 2012noun 1. Any of several chiefly Mediterranean plants of the genera Asphodeline and Asphodelus in the lily family; spring-flowering perennial with grey-green leaves and pale pink-grey-white flowers. The tubers are edible. 2. In Greek poetry and mythology, these were the flowers of Hades and the dead and were planted around tombs. This ghostly grey plant was [. […]
- REH Days Celebrates Conan’s Birthday! May 8, 2012We’re down to one month to go until Robert E. Howard Days! On June 8th folks from all over the US and the world will converge on Cross Plains, Texas, where we’ll share in the fellowship of being fans of the works of the incomparable Robert E. Howard. 2012 marks the 80th birthday of REH’s [...]
- REH Word of the Week: rout May 7, 2012Baal worshippers noun 1. a crowd of people of the lowest class; rabble; a disorderly crowd [origin: 13th century; Middle English route crowd, from Anglo-French rute band, from Vulgar Latin rupta, from Latin, feminine of ruptus, past participle of rumpere to break] HOWARD’S USAGE: My name is Baal; I walked the world of yore And [...]
- REH Word of the Week: anon April 30, 2012adverb 1. archaic : at once. also: soon, presently; after a while or later [origin: before 12th century; Middle English, from Old English on an, from on in + an one] HOWARD’S USAGE: Against the east a sombre spire loomed o’er a dusky, brooding wood; Against the west the sunset’s fire lay like a fading smear [...]
- REH Word of the Week: basaltic April 23, 2012adjective 1. a dark gray to black dense to fine-grained igneous rock that consists of basic plagioclase, augite, and usually magnetite [origin: ca. 1601; Latin basaltes, manuscript variant of basanites touchstone, from Greek basanitēs (lithos), from basanos touchstone, from Egyptian bḫnw] HOWARD’S USAGE: “Our prows have plowed the Baltic and passed those ro […]
- Updates for REH Days 2012 April 20, 2012Only seven weeks to go until Robert E. Howard Days 2012 in beautiful Cross Plains, Texas. There’s still plenty of time to send in your pre-registration and make plans to attend to best two days in Howard fandom. If you check the REH DAYS 2012 page (tab at the top), you’ll find a few revisions [...]
- REH Word of the Week: mowing June 4, 2012
- God Checker
- Deity of the Day June 4, 2012Deity of the Day is AKU-AKU Follow the Gods on Twitter Spirits of the Dead. ... Read more
- Deity of the Day June 4, 2012
