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As Ishmael floats helplessly atop the ocean deep, he becomes the stuff of Cosmicism - a strikingly lonely image of humanity adrift in a universe neither good nor evil. Death ends their misunderstanding, and negates their madness. The true madness of man is that of trying to apply a reasonableness to an unreasonable cosmos.

(1) CLASSIC CAR WITH AN SFF PEDIGREE. J. Michael Straczysnki told Facebook readers he needs a taker for the late Harlan Ellison’s 1947 Packard. For the last six months, we’ve talked to just about every vintage car company in existence about buying Harlan’s 1947 Packard, to no avail. It’s not an especially collectible car, not

The pulp magazine, which turns 100 this year, inspired Stephen King and made a star out of Conan.

Before Hollywood’s scream queens, the ladies of horror comics were at the forefront of fright.

Lovecraft eZine Contributor Number Two (not identified as yet): In the Village. Six: What do you want? Two: Information. Two: That would be telling. We want information…information… information!!! Six: You won’t get it! Two: By hook or by crook, we will. Six: Who are you? Six: Who is Number One? Two: You are Number Six. Six (running on the Village’s beach): I am not a number; I am a free man!!! Two: [Laughter]” (1). What is the measure of genius? One lies in the enduring nature of the...

The Dhahran Airfield and Civil Air Terminal On February 14, 1945, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt met with King Abdul Aziz of Saudi Arabia aboard the USS Quincy in the Great Bitter Lake on the Suez Canal. This meeting would have lasting implications on U.S. – Saudi relations for years to come.  Though the two nations established diplomatic relations in 1939, no American official higher than a minister in the diplomatic service had ever met the king. It wasn’t until 1942 that the State...