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Tag Archives: Lovecraft
Pulp Consumption: The Ballad of Black Tom
Victor LaValle’s novella The Ballad of Black Tom reimagines H.P. Lovecraft’s original story “The Horror at Red Hook,” notorious for being one of the most blatantly racist stories by the older author. “Red Hook” was originally published by Weird Tales … Continue reading
Pulp Appeal: Ghostbusters
When an ancient Lovecraftian-style evil rears its head in New York, who ya gonna call? The Ghostbusters, of course! What, you don’t consider Ghostbusters to reside under the pulp umbrella? I can only assume you skipped over nearly every piece … Continue reading
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Tagged '80s movies, 1980s, horror, humor, Lovecraft, movies we love, sci-fi
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Pulp Appeal: CIRSOVA #5
CIRSOVA: Heroic Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine recently released their seventh issue and in celebration they made issue five free on Amazon. I’d been meaning to pick up an issue anyway, and this acted as the perfect excuse to do … Continue reading
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Tagged anthology, heroic fantasy, indie mag, Lovecraft, review, sword and planet, sword and sorcery
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Pulp Consumption: Lovecraft Country
In theory, Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff should be everything I want to read in modern horror – inspired by H.P. Lovecraft, but rejecting his outright racism. Maybe it would have, if I’d stopped reading after the first section. Instead, … Continue reading
Pulp Appeal: Randolph Carter
Howard Phillips Lovecraft is a polarizing figure.1 His fiction lives on for us mainly because of the anthologizing and reprinting of his stories that was done mostly by August Derleth in the years after Lovecraft’s untimely death at the age … Continue reading