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  • What follows is a relentlessly grim portrait of guilt and retribution filled with echoes of H.P. Lovecraft's "The Rats in the Walls" and Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart."

    "Full Dark, No Stars," four novellas by horror writer Stephen King Bill Sheehan 2010

  • In the way that Lovecraft's best work is totally unapologetic about the horrors of hell, in the way that Chandler is totally unapologetic about his antiheroes who inhabit a world without redemption or light, Kadrey's Stark is in a living hell, and he hurts, and he will make other people hurt, and he will not stop.

    Boing Boing 2009

  • Elizabeth Bear's "Shoggoths in Bloom" is a clever historical take on Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos, placing the immortal shoggoth creatures under the attention of a black scientist in 1938.

    REVIEW: 2009 Hugo Award Short Fiction Nominees 2009

  • Lovecraft's words are current, for they cut against popular mockery of "the liberal media."

    Lovecraft, Sutter, and the Media, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • Responding, as Moore did, to Lovecraft's opening of antique vistas and to Stanley G. Weinbaum's opening of the solar system, Brackett wrote a series of tales involving the antiquated cultures of Mercury, Venus, Mars, and the Asteroids under the ecumenical dominion of a Terran Empire in its brash ascendancy.

    Archive 2010-03-01 Blue Tyson 2010

  • Anthology editor Ellen Datlow will introduce each of the four contributors from Lovecraft Unbound who will be reading from their stories, which are inspired by Lovecraft's fiction.

    The Montauk Club: Lovecraft Unbound, January 15, 2010 2009

  • The fact that our heroes wind up fighting the demonic Ancient Ones of H. P Lovecraft's stories.

    Celebrating Sherlock Holmes’ Birthday With Our Favorite Crossovers » MTV Movies Blog 2010

  • Though of late, I've taken to reading my five-month old son Baby's First Mythos, an ABC through Lovecraft's Old Ones.

    MIND MELD: What SF/F/H Books Are On The Top of Your "To-Be-Read" Pile? 2010

  • Finally CL Moore's "Black God's Kiss", which I only discovered as an adult, mesmerized me with its imagery, an amazing hybrid of Howard's action with Lovecraft's imagery that reminded me that s&s got its start in Weird Tales and made me want more Old Weird in contemporary S&S (and more s&s in contemporary Weird Tales!).

    MIND MELD: The Best Sword & Sorcery Stories 2010

  • Lovecraft's memorial piece on Howard, with supplemental comments added by Otis Adelbert Kline, E. Hoffman Price, and Jack Byrne, the editor of Argosy magazine.

    Archive 2010-01-01 Blue Tyson 2010

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