The Ocean and All Its Devices by William Browning Spencer

There are some stories that come across as inevitable. They feel obvious, not because you know exactly what is about Continue reading →

The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen

I read today’s story for the first time only recently, though it had been on my reading list for a Continue reading →

The Tugging by Ramsey Campbell

One of the things Campbell excels at is capturing the atmosphere of a grotty run-down urban environment populated by grey Continue reading →

The Adder by Fred Chappell

In most Lovecraftian fiction the cosmic horror is either played straight – and therefore horrific – or played for laughs, Continue reading →

Settler’s Wall by Robert A.W. Lowndes

In the countryside near Flagstaff, Maine, there is a wall ten feet high, dull, and has been there for as Continue reading →

Nothing Personal by Richard A. Lupoff

While cosmic horror writers have been strip-mining the works of H.P. Lovecraft for decades, there’s one area of the Cthulhu Continue reading →

A Critical Commentary of the Necronomicon by Robert M. Price

This piece, I suspect, is not for everyone. Here’s the high concept: Price pulls together many excerpts of the Necronomicon Continue reading →