Today's bookstore picks.

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Latest read, On the Last Night of the Festival of the Dead (1994) by Darrell Schweitzer from Sekenre.
Fantasy in the vein of M. John Harrison, Wolfe, Moorcock, Silverberg, Tanith Lee, Angela Carter.
Idiosyncratic & elegant.
Deserves a cover that is more of a reflection of that.
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After reading The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath, I picked up S. Petersen's Field guide to Lovecraftian Horrors.
A lot of fun with wonderful illustrations by Muzy, Gandzel, and Delepee.
The cover (with a Star Spawn of Cthulhu) and an Elder Thing:

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Latest read (audio), Rattle of Bones (1929) & The Moon of Skulls (1930) by Robert E Howard from Savage Tales of Solomon Kane; a short story in (the Duchy of Wurttemberg's) Black Forest & a novella in Central Africa, feat. the vampire queen Nakari.

This is where the adventure is.

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Latest read, The Man Who Was Made of Money (1992) by Avram Davidson from Borderlands 3; this tale of a spendthrift wife who drives her husband to penury & death to support her extravagances, is old fashioned by 1992--but her descent into self-delusion & madness is well-handled.

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Latest read (audio), Skull in the Stars, Right Hand of Doom, & Red Shadows; three adventures from The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane.
My third reading in the last year but the first on audio. I love them, of course.
Interesting what you focus on with audio vs. printed.

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Latest read (audio), Buddenbrooks (1901) by Thomas Mann; a multi-generational saga of a prosperous German merchant family & its fall from influence into ignominy & obscurity. A tale of pride, sloth, sanctimony, faith, education, hypocrisy, music, and death.
Artful yet approachable, always excellent.

#Books #Audiobook #ThomasMann #ClassicLiterature #Literature #Saga #Novel

Latest read, Evil Adored (1936) by Naguib Mahfouz, from Voices From the Other World; philosophical fable of ancient Egypt in which an aged wise man spreads community & selflessness to the ire of the professionals of virtue; magistrates & law enforcers--who lament their loss of importance.

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Latest read, Pumpernickel (1951) by Ray Bradbury; A loaf of pumpernickel prompts a memory and a yearning for long-ago days & old friends, of promises to reach out--which, as is human nature, dissipate the next morning.
One of Bradbury's perceptive, nostalgic, non-genre stories.

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Latest read, Horror at Red Hook (1927) by HP Lovecraft; a police detective's investigations lead to a peculiar occultist who surrounds himself with a criminal element, while undergoing a remarkable transformation.
LaValle artfully deflects its racism, in The Ballad of Black Tom.

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@rogue_corq That's a terrific movie.

Latest read, Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath (1927) by HP Lovecraft; in this novella Randolph Carter seeks the city of the gods in dream land. Heady, myriad, ever-shifting fantasy yet an adventure with friends and foes, puzzles and battles, and a pinch of charm.
Imagine if HPL had written Oz.

#Books #DarkFantasy #Fantasy #Novella #Lovecraft #WeirdFiction

Latest read, The Sin of the Bishop of Modenstein (1896) by Anthony Hope (Prisoner of Zenda); a handsome young bishop picks up the sword again when a wicked Count abducts Princess Osra.
Classic derring-do, great fun!

#Books #Swashbuckler #Swords #Swordfight #Adventure

Watched The Hole in the Ground (Irish, 2019), an independent horror movie that uses camerawork to compensate for a limited budget. The performances are very good, and the story is uncommon.
Worth seeing.
Wish the low-budget horror films of the 60s had this much atmosphere.
#HorrorMovies #Horror #Movies

I'm creating Solomon Kane stories for Heroic Signature & Titan Comics, the people behind the new hit Conan series. Kane was my first request among their stable of great characters. I've loved him since finding this paperback at Waldenbooks, excited Howard had written it too:

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My favorite occupation description was from a late 1800's US #Census, which listed a young teenage girl's occupation as "Does as she pleases." LOL

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Discussion and reviews about The Last Voyage of the Demeter made me realize most people don't know Dracula through the novel.
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Latest read, The Many Deaths of Laila Starr (2021) by Ram V & Filipe Andrade; Death, fired from her job, is reborn as a young Mumbai woman, because a man soon discovers the secret of immortality.
Ram V achieves tenderness in the finale, and Andrade's art is hip & graceful.
#Comics #ComicBook #Fantasy #Books

At my feet while I read.
They really became fast friends.

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