Lurker Magazine Presents: The House on the Borderland Board Game
A metal zine that comes with a board game based on The House on the Borderland? As soon as I saw it, I knew I had to have it.
Read MoreSea Horror - Part One
Since the beginning of time the sea has inspired fear. It covers most of the earth and what lies beneath it we may never truly know. Anything can reside beneath the waves. This series of posts will look at horror stories set on or around the sea by many authors.
Read MoreTo Dree, Or Not To Dree?
So, the other day I was rereading the first chapter of Robert E. Howard’s "People of the Black Circle" and I hit this line:
"Again that far, weirdly dreeing cry, from realms immeasurable."
That word, "dreeing." Obviously, the gerund form of "dree." But what was "dree"? What did it mean?
Read MoreHodgson Meets His Doom at Ypres
On this date in 1918, William Hope Hodgson met his fate in the blood-soaked, shambolic trenches of northern France, well-nigh disintegrated by a German mortar round. He was forty-one years old. England and the world lost a weird fiction author possessed of rare gifts on that spring day.
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