lovecraft

SPOILER WARNING About a year ago I read a great big annotated collection of stories by H.P. Lovecraft. The stories were OK-ish, but the annotations on their own were good value for the money. But to return to Lovecraft. For years I had been reading Lovecraft fans wax loquacious on how most...

So this is a idea about using the works of HP Lovecraft. Making a civilization with the different leaders being the characters he came up with such a Cthulhu, The King in Yellow, Charles Dexter Ward, etc. This idea comes from a Civ 5 mod that had Cthulhu as a playable civilization and I wanted...

I hadn't read that largish story by Lovecraft. Now i did, but i wish i didn't. Because it was a let down :) It started ok, first chapter was promising, actually. But it quickly turned into something without a center or focus, and really piling on the chapters of allusion, and not that...

I have been reading the Aethiopika, by Heliodoros, which is one of the main greek-roman era romance novels. At around book 4 there is a brief claim about Homer (whose verses are often quoted in the text), according to which this was only a nickname given to him due to his strange thigh (meros...