Friday, June 06, 2008

Gary Braunbeck's In Silent Graves

Lovecraft allusion. In the Leisure edition of April 2004, page 227=228,

"You see not all the angels are these ethereal white-robed, wondrous, golden-winged refugees from a beauty contest ... oh, no. Mnay of them - and I'm talking about those that sit by God's side and have his favor and love and respect and are the first to get tickets for the WWF Summer Slam - the good guys, capiche? A lot of them are so hideous in their appearance that they make Lovecraft's Great Old Ones look like Playboy centerfolds. We're talkin' class-A uggos here, tentacles and dripping teeth and putrescent flesh all dark and oily with larval eruptions that drip phosphorescent goo. All clear on that? Good."

Gary Braunbeck, In Silent Graves, Leisure, April 2004, isbn 0-8439-5329-2

(Theoretical) Model Kits of Lovecraft Horror


From my antiquarian thread friend, Carcosa:

The image below is a set of boxes done in the style of the 1960's Aurora monster model kits, featuring some of our favorite...uh...characters from the world of HPL ... Not ACTUAL kits, mind you, but pretty cool boxes....

Thursday, June 05, 2008

Rare Autographed Item In Lovecraft's Handwriting.


The seller costermongerstu (which is likely Stuart David Schiff) states this:

Howard Philips Lovecraft (H.P. Lovecraft) was noted for his horror fiction but also was quite adept at poetry. Most of the his poems were not horror-fantasy, but his FUNGI FROM YUGGOTH cycle was (and is his most famous poetry). Here is the RARE chance to obtain a handwritten manuscript of one of the FUNGI sonnets that is SIGNED by Lovecraft. While his letters are expensive (and very few contain such as this), to find a separate and SIGNED Lovecraft manuscript is a major coup. Penned on a half sheet (3 1/2" x 5 1/2"), the paper has held up well over the past seventy-plus years. There is a mailing fold (evident in the second photograph) that has been pretty much pressed out over years of storage. Some foxing is present. All in all, this is a prime treasure and a lucky bit of survival. Having once owned all of Robert Bloch's Lovecraft letters, I can assure the authenticity of this piece.

Price listed at approximately $1600-2000.

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