Tag Archives: Lovecraft

Scrape It Off

Posted on April 4, 2022 by Gene Stewart

Influence on writers of cosmic, or weird, horror can and should be credited to H P Lovecraft’s work. Setting aside racism, his work touched on a cold existential view of mankind, Earth, the Solar system, even the Milky Way Galaxy, … Continue reading →

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Pulp Smashes Elitism

Posted on July 15, 2019 by Gene Stewart

I keep reflecting on the pulps. ERB and REH, HPL and so on, to varying degrees of literacy, wrote what has become the basis for genre pioneered by Poe and a few others. Flaws and all, those pulp writers pounded … Continue reading →

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Lovecraft at the Beach by Gene Stewart

Posted on November 12, 2017 by Gene Stewart

Oliver Hollis Howich, archaeologist Trevin Moore Auster, crank preacher Janet Hampton (Howich), student Olive Jane Howich, illustrator, artist # Howich squatted between the door jambs picking at the rotten wood saddle, on the threshold. How many people had trodden on … Continue reading →

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Tempestuous Teapottery –

Posted on November 13, 2015 by Gene Stewart

Tempestuous Teapottery – Should an artist’s flaws count against the art? Should an image, a grotesque caricature really, of HPL be dumped because the man himself was a racist? Is hate by association sufficient? Ask the same of Nazi documentariste … Continue reading →

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Finding Your Own Voice In Writing

Posted on April 1, 2015 by Gene Stewart

Developing writers with ambition all want to find their own voices, craft their own styles, and become known as the only source for their particular writing. Then they grow up and discover that editors hate that and want mostly pastiche … Continue reading →

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Excerpt From a Work In Stasis

Posted on August 15, 2013 by Gene Stewart

Damned kids So desperate to be big threats in their world of hostility and alienation. —welcome back, loser — He swayed, trembling inside, at a street corner. waiting for the light to let him cross. On a bumper sticker he … Continue reading →

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