ancienthistory

ancienthistory, 1 month ago to art

This week on Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein we look at the 2016 artist edition of THE COLOUR OUT OF SPACE by H. P. Lovecraft and Amy Borezo, and meditate on fancy Lovecraftian editions.

https://deepcuts.blog/2024/04/20/the-colour-out-of-space-2016-by-h-p-lovecraft-amy-borezo/

#lovecraft #hplovecraft #art #book #bookart #cthulhumythos #weirdfiction

ancienthistory, 1 month ago to legal

It's a mid-week special on Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein with "Deeper Cut: Weird Tales, Birth Control, and the Mysterious Dr. Fouts" - a deep dive into advertising, Comstock laws, and the grim consequences of mail-order sex education.

https://deepcuts.blog/2024/04/17/deeper-cut-weird-tales-birth-control-and-the-mysterious-dr-fouts/

#weirdtales #historyofmedicine #birthcontrol #pulp #legal #lovecraft

ancienthistory, 2 months ago to scifi

This week on Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein we ask the question: why isn't there a full C. L. Moore biography?

http://deepcuts.blog/2024/03/20/unfinished-autobiography-fragment-1982-by-c-l-moore/

#clmoore #scifi #fantasy #sciencefiction #weirdfiction #weirdtales #womeninhistory

ancienthistory, 3 months ago to random

H. P. Lovecraft claimed his friend Edith Miniter was offered the chance to revise Bram Stoker's Dracula. This week on Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein, find out everything we know - and don't know - about this claim.

https://deepcuts.blog/2024/01/31/deeper-cut-lovecraft-miniter-stoker-the-dracula-revision/

#lovecraft #vampire #dracula #bramstoker #hplovecraft #womeninhistory

ancienthistory, 8 months ago to weirdfiction

This week on Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein, we look at the history of Mythos fiction by and about Black people.

https://deepcuts.blog/2023/09/30/a-short-history-of-the-black-mythos/

#cthulhu #cthulhumythos #blackhistory #weirdfiction #lovecraft #hplovecraft #blacklit

johnshirley2024, 8 months ago to random

I heard a joke last night, "How do you become a millionaire? You start out a billionaire and then invest your money in wineries." A variant I'm sure must be going around: "How do you become a millionaire? You start out a billionaire and invest your money in Twitter."