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Interested in fantasy and sci-fi books/art/TV/movies, games, poetry, music, and natural history. Banner image of IC 2118 credit to NASA/STScI Digitized Sky Survey/Noel Carboni.
#WyrdWednesday
Conan and Valeria battle a dinosaur in an early scene from Red Nails (1936) by Robert E. Howard. This image is from the 1973/74 Roy Thomas/Barry Windsor-Smith adaptation, colored for The Barry Windsor-Smith Archives Vol. 2 (Dark Horse, 2010).
Conan and Valeria battle a dinosaur in an early scene from Red Nails (1936) by Robert E. Howard. This image is from the 1973/74 Roy Thomas/Barry Windsor-Smith adaptation, colored for The Barry Windsor-Smith Archives Vol. 2 (Dark Horse, 2010).
September 30, 2026 at 10:30 AM
#WyrdWednesday
Conan and Valeria battle a dinosaur in an early scene from Red Nails (1936) by Robert E. Howard. This image is from the 1973/74 Roy Thomas/Barry Windsor-Smith adaptation, colored for The Barry Windsor-Smith Archives Vol. 2 (Dark Horse, 2010).
Conan and Valeria battle a dinosaur in an early scene from Red Nails (1936) by Robert E. Howard. This image is from the 1973/74 Roy Thomas/Barry Windsor-Smith adaptation, colored for The Barry Windsor-Smith Archives Vol. 2 (Dark Horse, 2010).
#SpookySunday
The wraith appears ere the staid magicians.
The question is asked, the answer is told....
Outside, the kingdom is shrouded in twilight.
The ghoulish wraith departs, and a great cold
Chills the fearful men. Soon all ambitions
Will be lost into the ultimate Night.
The wraith appears ere the staid magicians.
The question is asked, the answer is told....
Outside, the kingdom is shrouded in twilight.
The ghoulish wraith departs, and a great cold
Chills the fearful men. Soon all ambitions
Will be lost into the ultimate Night.
September 27, 2026 at 1:10 PM
#SpookySunday
The wraith appears ere the staid magicians.
The question is asked, the answer is told....
Outside, the kingdom is shrouded in twilight.
The ghoulish wraith departs, and a great cold
Chills the fearful men. Soon all ambitions
Will be lost into the ultimate Night.
The wraith appears ere the staid magicians.
The question is asked, the answer is told....
Outside, the kingdom is shrouded in twilight.
The ghoulish wraith departs, and a great cold
Chills the fearful men. Soon all ambitions
Will be lost into the ultimate Night.
#BookWormSat
After Man: A Zoology of the Future (1981) by Dougal Dixon. A speculative science book where humankind is extinct, and other species have continued to evolve following known principles. Rabbucks evolve from the rabbit/hare family and replace hoofed mammals as large, grazing herbivores.
After Man: A Zoology of the Future (1981) by Dougal Dixon. A speculative science book where humankind is extinct, and other species have continued to evolve following known principles. Rabbucks evolve from the rabbit/hare family and replace hoofed mammals as large, grazing herbivores.
September 26, 2026 at 10:16 AM
#BookWormSat
After Man: A Zoology of the Future (1981) by Dougal Dixon. A speculative science book where humankind is extinct, and other species have continued to evolve following known principles. Rabbucks evolve from the rabbit/hare family and replace hoofed mammals as large, grazing herbivores.
After Man: A Zoology of the Future (1981) by Dougal Dixon. A speculative science book where humankind is extinct, and other species have continued to evolve following known principles. Rabbucks evolve from the rabbit/hare family and replace hoofed mammals as large, grazing herbivores.
#WyrdWednesday
Harvest
In Over the Garden Wall (2014), Episode 2: Hard Times at the Huskin' Bee, Pottsfield is the site of a rather curious harvest festival.
A link to a recording of the shape note singing from this episode is in replies.
Harvest
In Over the Garden Wall (2014), Episode 2: Hard Times at the Huskin' Bee, Pottsfield is the site of a rather curious harvest festival.
A link to a recording of the shape note singing from this episode is in replies.
September 23, 2026 at 10:15 AM
#WyrdWednesday
Harvest
In Over the Garden Wall (2014), Episode 2: Hard Times at the Huskin' Bee, Pottsfield is the site of a rather curious harvest festival.
A link to a recording of the shape note singing from this episode is in replies.
Harvest
In Over the Garden Wall (2014), Episode 2: Hard Times at the Huskin' Bee, Pottsfield is the site of a rather curious harvest festival.
A link to a recording of the shape note singing from this episode is in replies.
#SpookySunday
Image from a 1973 adaptation by Roy Thomas and Ralph Reese of Skulls in the Stars (1929) by Robert E. Howard. More info in alt text.
Solomon Kane encounters a violent ghost on the moor, solves the mystery of a man's disappearance, and brings grim justice to a murderer.
Image from a 1973 adaptation by Roy Thomas and Ralph Reese of Skulls in the Stars (1929) by Robert E. Howard. More info in alt text.
Solomon Kane encounters a violent ghost on the moor, solves the mystery of a man's disappearance, and brings grim justice to a murderer.
September 20, 2026 at 11:29 AM
#SpookySunday
Image from a 1973 adaptation by Roy Thomas and Ralph Reese of Skulls in the Stars (1929) by Robert E. Howard. More info in alt text.
Solomon Kane encounters a violent ghost on the moor, solves the mystery of a man's disappearance, and brings grim justice to a murderer.
Image from a 1973 adaptation by Roy Thomas and Ralph Reese of Skulls in the Stars (1929) by Robert E. Howard. More info in alt text.
Solomon Kane encounters a violent ghost on the moor, solves the mystery of a man's disappearance, and brings grim justice to a murderer.
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Spent a heavenly afternoon at La Capitolare di Verona - 1,509 years old & the oldest library in the world still in operation today 🕯️
August 29, 2026 at 7:44 PM
Spent a heavenly afternoon at La Capitolare di Verona - 1,509 years old & the oldest library in the world still in operation today 🕯️
#WyrdWednesday
From: Jaguar Woman (Shimmer No. 10, 2009) by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. A woman strives to retain the memories of her former life and will herself back into her original form. Collected in This Strange Way of Dying: Stories of Magic, Desire & the Fantastic (2013).
From: Jaguar Woman (Shimmer No. 10, 2009) by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. A woman strives to retain the memories of her former life and will herself back into her original form. Collected in This Strange Way of Dying: Stories of Magic, Desire & the Fantastic (2013).
September 16, 2026 at 11:33 AM
#WyrdWednesday
From: Jaguar Woman (Shimmer No. 10, 2009) by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. A woman strives to retain the memories of her former life and will herself back into her original form. Collected in This Strange Way of Dying: Stories of Magic, Desire & the Fantastic (2013).
From: Jaguar Woman (Shimmer No. 10, 2009) by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. A woman strives to retain the memories of her former life and will herself back into her original form. Collected in This Strange Way of Dying: Stories of Magic, Desire & the Fantastic (2013).
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Leonardo Da Vinci’s To-Do List from 1490: The Plan of a Renaissance Man www.openculture.com/2025/09/leon...
Leonardo Da Vinci’s To-Do List from 1490: The Plan of a Renaissance Man
Most people’s to-do lists are, almost by definition, pretty dull, filled with those quotidian little tasks that tend to slip out of our minds. Pick up the laundry. Get that thing for the kid. Buy milk...
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September 15, 2026 at 2:17 PM
Leonardo Da Vinci’s To-Do List from 1490: The Plan of a Renaissance Man www.openculture.com/2025/09/leon...
This book will be released in English in April 2027 and is now up for pre-order on various shopping sites.
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The list of atlas areas covered looks quite promising.
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The list of atlas areas covered looks quite promising.
The Lovecraft Atlas Maps The Cthulhu Mythos With Enough Geographical Detail to Induce Madness
What's the French term for Great Old One? Not sure? Well, you may very well find the answer in Alain T. Puysségur and Laurent Gontier's Lovecraft Atlas, a geographical and cartographic exploration int...
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September 14, 2026 at 11:04 AM
This book will be released in English in April 2027 and is now up for pre-order on various shopping sites.
www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/th...
The list of atlas areas covered looks quite promising.
www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/th...
The list of atlas areas covered looks quite promising.
#WyrdWednesday
The Tale of Hauk (1977) by Poul Anderson. When a Norseman returns from sea, he finds that his angry father has risen from the grave. He must find a way to bring his father peace and end a reign of terror. Reprinted in Anderson's 1981 collection Fantasy and many anthologies since.
The Tale of Hauk (1977) by Poul Anderson. When a Norseman returns from sea, he finds that his angry father has risen from the grave. He must find a way to bring his father peace and end a reign of terror. Reprinted in Anderson's 1981 collection Fantasy and many anthologies since.
September 9, 2026 at 1:40 PM
#WyrdWednesday
The Tale of Hauk (1977) by Poul Anderson. When a Norseman returns from sea, he finds that his angry father has risen from the grave. He must find a way to bring his father peace and end a reign of terror. Reprinted in Anderson's 1981 collection Fantasy and many anthologies since.
The Tale of Hauk (1977) by Poul Anderson. When a Norseman returns from sea, he finds that his angry father has risen from the grave. He must find a way to bring his father peace and end a reign of terror. Reprinted in Anderson's 1981 collection Fantasy and many anthologies since.
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Underappreciated Deeper Cut of the day: In which I both re-create the curry that Lovecraft ate and attempt to answer the question "what is a curry?"
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Deeper Cut: E. Hoffmann Price’s Curry Recipe
Skip Straight To Recipe The Story Behind The Curry The notice of the Algiers restaurant is charming; but alas, they spoil it all by babbling of “plain, home cooked food.” Alas, alas—when I crave di…
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September 8, 2026 at 12:43 PM
Underappreciated Deeper Cut of the day: In which I both re-create the curry that Lovecraft ate and attempt to answer the question "what is a curry?"
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#SpookySunday
The Ghosts by Lord Dunsany. First collected in The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories (1908). When a man is assailed by the manifested sins of ghosts, he fends them off and restores his reason and sanity by reciting a geometry proof.
Illustrations by Sidney Sime from this story.
The Ghosts by Lord Dunsany. First collected in The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories (1908). When a man is assailed by the manifested sins of ghosts, he fends them off and restores his reason and sanity by reciting a geometry proof.
Illustrations by Sidney Sime from this story.
September 6, 2026 at 11:38 AM
#SpookySunday
The Ghosts by Lord Dunsany. First collected in The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories (1908). When a man is assailed by the manifested sins of ghosts, he fends them off and restores his reason and sanity by reciting a geometry proof.
Illustrations by Sidney Sime from this story.
The Ghosts by Lord Dunsany. First collected in The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories (1908). When a man is assailed by the manifested sins of ghosts, he fends them off and restores his reason and sanity by reciting a geometry proof.
Illustrations by Sidney Sime from this story.
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Some of the players in my alliterative-verse marionette show, THE LAY OF SCRATTA, premiering this Halloween: Woden, Luca and Edgeong (Anglo-Saxon versions of the gods better known by their Old Norse names Oðinn, Loki and Iðunn).
September 4, 2026 at 9:33 PM
Some of the players in my alliterative-verse marionette show, THE LAY OF SCRATTA, premiering this Halloween: Woden, Luca and Edgeong (Anglo-Saxon versions of the gods better known by their Old Norse names Oðinn, Loki and Iðunn).
Post a Diagram/Blueprint/Cutaway or Map from Comics!
Francesca Baerald's excellent wraparound Hyborian Age map.
Francesca Baerald's excellent wraparound Hyborian Age map.
September 4, 2026 at 2:20 PM
Post a Diagram/Blueprint/Cutaway or Map from Comics!
Francesca Baerald's excellent wraparound Hyborian Age map.
Francesca Baerald's excellent wraparound Hyborian Age map.
#WyrdWednesday
Prince of Darkness (Oct 1987) might have my favorite atmospherics of any spooky movie, with foreboding opening shots of campus and sky, great soundtrack by Carpenter, the dream broadcasts, mirror scenes, the ending...
"We are using your brain's electrical system as a receiver..."
Prince of Darkness (Oct 1987) might have my favorite atmospherics of any spooky movie, with foreboding opening shots of campus and sky, great soundtrack by Carpenter, the dream broadcasts, mirror scenes, the ending...
"We are using your brain's electrical system as a receiver..."
September 2, 2026 at 12:06 PM
#WyrdWednesday
Prince of Darkness (Oct 1987) might have my favorite atmospherics of any spooky movie, with foreboding opening shots of campus and sky, great soundtrack by Carpenter, the dream broadcasts, mirror scenes, the ending...
"We are using your brain's electrical system as a receiver..."
Prince of Darkness (Oct 1987) might have my favorite atmospherics of any spooky movie, with foreboding opening shots of campus and sky, great soundtrack by Carpenter, the dream broadcasts, mirror scenes, the ending...
"We are using your brain's electrical system as a receiver..."
#SpookySunday
An illustration by Matt Fox of his own sighting of an apparition. This image is from his art collection book The Chillingly Weird Art of Matt Fox (TwoMorrows Publishing, 2023).
An illustration by Matt Fox of his own sighting of an apparition. This image is from his art collection book The Chillingly Weird Art of Matt Fox (TwoMorrows Publishing, 2023).
August 30, 2026 at 2:14 PM
#SpookySunday
An illustration by Matt Fox of his own sighting of an apparition. This image is from his art collection book The Chillingly Weird Art of Matt Fox (TwoMorrows Publishing, 2023).
An illustration by Matt Fox of his own sighting of an apparition. This image is from his art collection book The Chillingly Weird Art of Matt Fox (TwoMorrows Publishing, 2023).
#BookWormSat
Whirling, wheeling into westward,
Fled they in their phantom flight;
Was it but a wing-beat music
Murmured through the star-gemmed night?
Or the singing of a ghost clan
Whispering of forgotten night?
Credits in alt text.
Whirling, wheeling into westward,
Fled they in their phantom flight;
Was it but a wing-beat music
Murmured through the star-gemmed night?
Or the singing of a ghost clan
Whispering of forgotten night?
Credits in alt text.
August 29, 2026 at 10:19 AM
#BookWormSat
Whirling, wheeling into westward,
Fled they in their phantom flight;
Was it but a wing-beat music
Murmured through the star-gemmed night?
Or the singing of a ghost clan
Whispering of forgotten night?
Credits in alt text.
Whirling, wheeling into westward,
Fled they in their phantom flight;
Was it but a wing-beat music
Murmured through the star-gemmed night?
Or the singing of a ghost clan
Whispering of forgotten night?
Credits in alt text.
#BookWormSat
Let the Patterns Break by Lilith Lorraine, pseudonym of Mary Maud Wright (Dunn), is an omnibus volume of 400+ poems through 1947. She wrote mostly sci-fi, fantasy, and weird fiction poems, plus stories, essays, and a textbook. She also edited, published, and promoted others' work.
Let the Patterns Break by Lilith Lorraine, pseudonym of Mary Maud Wright (Dunn), is an omnibus volume of 400+ poems through 1947. She wrote mostly sci-fi, fantasy, and weird fiction poems, plus stories, essays, and a textbook. She also edited, published, and promoted others' work.
August 22, 2026 at 11:05 AM
#BookWormSat
Let the Patterns Break by Lilith Lorraine, pseudonym of Mary Maud Wright (Dunn), is an omnibus volume of 400+ poems through 1947. She wrote mostly sci-fi, fantasy, and weird fiction poems, plus stories, essays, and a textbook. She also edited, published, and promoted others' work.
Let the Patterns Break by Lilith Lorraine, pseudonym of Mary Maud Wright (Dunn), is an omnibus volume of 400+ poems through 1947. She wrote mostly sci-fi, fantasy, and weird fiction poems, plus stories, essays, and a textbook. She also edited, published, and promoted others' work.
#WyrdWednesday
Diving Suit, interior artwork by Eduardo Valdés-Hevia.
"How he had stared down into that blackness...drawn by some impulse he himself could not hope to fully understand—the sound of a sunken bell, he called it. Bells from some drowned church, calling me to worship."
See alt text.
Diving Suit, interior artwork by Eduardo Valdés-Hevia.
"How he had stared down into that blackness...drawn by some impulse he himself could not hope to fully understand—the sound of a sunken bell, he called it. Bells from some drowned church, calling me to worship."
See alt text.
August 19, 2026 at 10:14 AM
#WyrdWednesday
Diving Suit, interior artwork by Eduardo Valdés-Hevia.
"How he had stared down into that blackness...drawn by some impulse he himself could not hope to fully understand—the sound of a sunken bell, he called it. Bells from some drowned church, calling me to worship."
See alt text.
Diving Suit, interior artwork by Eduardo Valdés-Hevia.
"How he had stared down into that blackness...drawn by some impulse he himself could not hope to fully understand—the sound of a sunken bell, he called it. Bells from some drowned church, calling me to worship."
See alt text.
#WyrdWednesday
A drawing from a Stephen Fabian art collection book. It was originally used as an interior illustration for The Return of the Sea-Farer by Robert E. Howard in Weirdbook 13, 1978.
A drawing from a Stephen Fabian art collection book. It was originally used as an interior illustration for The Return of the Sea-Farer by Robert E. Howard in Weirdbook 13, 1978.
August 19, 2026 at 10:03 AM
#WyrdWednesday
A drawing from a Stephen Fabian art collection book. It was originally used as an interior illustration for The Return of the Sea-Farer by Robert E. Howard in Weirdbook 13, 1978.
A drawing from a Stephen Fabian art collection book. It was originally used as an interior illustration for The Return of the Sea-Farer by Robert E. Howard in Weirdbook 13, 1978.
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Reading poetry at NecronomiCon.
August 15, 2026 at 8:12 PM
Reading poetry at NecronomiCon.
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Snapdragons transmute—
a concrete garden
Is now an ossuary
a concrete garden
Is now an ossuary
August 12, 2026 at 1:26 PM
Snapdragons transmute—
a concrete garden
Is now an ossuary
a concrete garden
Is now an ossuary
#WyrdWednesday
Nightfall (1941) by Isaac Asimov. On a planet with six suns, the first full solar eclipse in two millenia may be approaching. A news person, a psychologist, a religious leader, and a group of astronomers debate the outcome in an observatory.
Art credit in alt text.
Nightfall (1941) by Isaac Asimov. On a planet with six suns, the first full solar eclipse in two millenia may be approaching. A news person, a psychologist, a religious leader, and a group of astronomers debate the outcome in an observatory.
Art credit in alt text.
August 12, 2026 at 10:01 AM
#WyrdWednesday
Nightfall (1941) by Isaac Asimov. On a planet with six suns, the first full solar eclipse in two millenia may be approaching. A news person, a psychologist, a religious leader, and a group of astronomers debate the outcome in an observatory.
Art credit in alt text.
Nightfall (1941) by Isaac Asimov. On a planet with six suns, the first full solar eclipse in two millenia may be approaching. A news person, a psychologist, a religious leader, and a group of astronomers debate the outcome in an observatory.
Art credit in alt text.
#SpookySunday
Sea Curse (Weird Tales, May 1928) by Robert E. Howard. When a witch's niece falls victim to a terrible crime, a curse brings down well-deserved doom on the perpetrators.
This story uses a stanza from Rudyard Kipling's The Sea-Wife as an epigraph.
Art credit in alt text.
Sea Curse (Weird Tales, May 1928) by Robert E. Howard. When a witch's niece falls victim to a terrible crime, a curse brings down well-deserved doom on the perpetrators.
This story uses a stanza from Rudyard Kipling's The Sea-Wife as an epigraph.
Art credit in alt text.
August 9, 2026 at 12:36 PM
#SpookySunday
Sea Curse (Weird Tales, May 1928) by Robert E. Howard. When a witch's niece falls victim to a terrible crime, a curse brings down well-deserved doom on the perpetrators.
This story uses a stanza from Rudyard Kipling's The Sea-Wife as an epigraph.
Art credit in alt text.
Sea Curse (Weird Tales, May 1928) by Robert E. Howard. When a witch's niece falls victim to a terrible crime, a curse brings down well-deserved doom on the perpetrators.
This story uses a stanza from Rudyard Kipling's The Sea-Wife as an epigraph.
Art credit in alt text.