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Brian has got an excellent review of the latest #Lovecraft anthology—it's not what you think!

https://galacticjourney.org/september-6-1970-lately-i-dream-of-new-england-the-dream-quest-of-unknown-kadath-by-h-p-lovecraft/

Cover illustration for 'The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath'- In the foreground a stairway of dark stone descends from the upper boughs of a tree, ending surreally in a split trunk, and a quartet of cats are lounging about at the foot of the stairs. Just beyond the tree we see a field full of five-petalled yellow-orange flowers, bordered in the middle distance by low, mist-shrouded woods, with a pair of golden palaces in the distance, backed by mountains and a red setting sun.

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The Uncanny Scot

To get you in the mood for Halloween, this back issue of The Bottle Imp pursues the spectre of the Scottish Gothic – including HP Lovecraft’s favourite Scots word …

From ghoulies and ghosties
And long-leggity beasties
And things that go bump in the night,
Good Lord, deliver us!

🎃
(the absence of a neep emoji is cultural imperialism at its worst)

https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2009/11/editorial-the-uncanny-scot-scottish-gothic/

#Scottish #literature #horror #gothic #halloween #Lovecraft #HPLovecraft

The Uncanny Scot
By The Unreliable Narrator

Readers of a nervous disposition, turn away! This issue of The Bottle Imp pursues the spectre of the Gothic. Naught but ruined towers, blasted heaths, and cold wastes lie within.

Horror seeps in to this our waking world from the margins, and the marginalised. Scotland lies on Britain’s edge, a ragged, ancient fringe. The very rocks beneath our feet are primeval: they count their years in billions, and were old past knowing when first things sneaked and scuttled from out the slime. The skin is thinner here, stretched more tightly over the bones of the Earth.

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Cthulhu tree stump in Florida
http://imgur.com/gallery/ocXcLUF

#trees #Cthulhu #Lovecraft #HPLovecraft #Florida #plants #monsters

A bizarrely twisted tree in a sunlit woodland clearing, surrounded by a carpet of dry brown leaves. The tree curls back down on itself, its thick branches snaking tightly around its own trunk and curling into the ground. The general appearance is beautifully monstrous, as though the branches were tentacles. A roughly circular scar on the bark where you might expect to see an eye, if this were a creature, strengthens its Cthulhu-like vibes. A few metres beyond it are ferns and upright trees.

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Read my latest, “Cthulhu Is My Alma Mater,“ on Medium. #BrownUniversity #Lovecraft

https://tuckerlieberman.medium.com/cthulhu-alma-mater-f8d8cabb4868?sk=9232d7707120418ece376349479b393c

like Lovecraft’s ancient gods, we were always here

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