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Much of my work through the years has involved using popular culture as a vehicle for understanding American social attitudes, whether we are looking at

We're looking back on True Detective season one's terrifying villain, the Yellow King, and his cosmically strange home base of "Carcosa."

Like season 1, the new season of True Detective, True Detective: Night Country draws on horror literature to tell its creepy mystery story.

Henry J. Russell, age 83 of Prairie du Sac, WI passed away Wednesday, December 13th at UW Hospital in Madison. He was born on December 7, 1940 in Baraboo, the

The only state the Blessed Virgin Mary visited in a Church-approved apparition, the Badger State has many beautiful and holy Catholic sites.

(1) GASBAGS OF DEATH. Let Michael Moorcock tell you all about "The hubris of the great airship designers", in his review of His Majesty’s Airship: The Life and Tragic Death of the World’s Largest Flying Machine by S.C. Gwynne. Behind a paywall at Spectator. …The airship race of the 1920s and 1930s carried that familiar

Marvel's Spider-Man 2 already gets weird, but looking at the comic inspiration puts the story way closer to Cthulu than you're prepared for.

The following essay is by Pete Rawlik, author of the upcoming Lovecraftian novel Reanimators. The term “Lovecraftian Horror” gets bandied about quite a bit, including by me, but what does it mean? How do we, (meaning I) define it? Some people use it interchangeably with “Cthulhu Mythos” or “Cosmic Horror”, but to me this is sloppy,…

(1) MAINE PAPER INTERVIEWS LIADEN CREATORS. “Waterville authors’ marriage has stood the test of time – and deadlines”, in the Portland, ME Press-Herald. In the days when they were trying to build their careers as science fiction writers, Sharon Lee and Steve Miller had multiple jobs to pay the bills, and a shared typewriter. Lee

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