Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein

Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein

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Pulp scholar specializing in H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard. Author of SEX AND THE CTHULHU MYTHOS and WEIRD TALERS. Reader of dead people's letters. He/him. Blue checks happen to other people.

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The Robert E. Howard House & Museum in Cross Plains, TX is in need of imminent repair work to its foundations, as well as moisture and termite damage. If you can afford to give a little to help keep this bit of pulp history alive, it would be appreciated. rehfoundation.org/save-the-reh...

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I should expand on this a little. Black writers in the 20s and 30s were absolutely writing horror, weird fiction, SFF. But it wasn't always characterized as genre fiction, and it didn't always make it into genre pulp magazines, so it is often invisible or overlooked in surveys of genre literature.

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"Early" is tricky. Black writers existed in the 20s and 30s, but weren't always identified by race, and African-American contributions to early genre lit are poorly attested. “The Comet” (1920) by W. E. B. DuBois "Spunk" (1925) by Zora Neale Hurston BLACK EMPIRE (1936-1938) by George S. Schuyler

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I like the editor spotlights and interviews; nobody else seems to. "The Magic Show" by Chris Miller remains one of those stories you can't unread; the former writer for NATIONAL LAMPOON managed several incredibly transgressive tales, none of which I think are still in print.

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Supposedly, this story was published as part of an audio cassette, but I've never been able to track down a copy to confirm. And it's one of those unholy grails that you don't mind if it slips through your fingers. Like, it's a notorious story, but not because it's good.

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Before Robert E. Howard wrote Conan the Cimmerian into existence, he went through a period in the late-20s/early-30s writing stories with Irish protagonists, especially Conn, Turlough Dubh O'Brien, Cormac Mac Art, Cormac FitzGeoffrey, and Conan the Reaver in "The People of the Dark."

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No discussion on Crom can be complete without mentioning the fact that Robert E. Howard chose this name for the deity of his fictional character, Conan the Cimmerian.

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Before Robert E. Howard wrote Conan the Cimmerian into existence, he went through a period in the late-20s/early-30s writing stories with Irish protagonists, especially Conn, Turlough Dubh O'Brien, Cormac Mac Art, Cormac FitzGeoffrey, and Conan the Reaver in "The People of the Dark."

G.B. Marian@gbmarian.bsky.social

No discussion on Crom can be complete without mentioning the fact that Robert E. Howard chose this name for the deity of his fictional character, Conan the Cimmerian.

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These characters invoked Crom in various contexts, mostly as an ejaculation or to swear by his name, although it was also part of the name of a ship. None of the Irish characters go into any details about Crom except as an ancient deity.

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Howard was probably inspired by an account of Crom Cruach in P. W. Joyce's A Short History of Gaelic Ireland; Crom was also mentioned by Joyce as the name of a castle and gave birth to a family battle-cry, which is closer to how Howard used it:

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Name a piece of comic art that occasionally wanders into your head unannounced and makes you smile. #comics

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Name a piece of comic art that occasionally wanders into your head unannounced and makes you smile. #comics

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Here's a look at Bianca's process of how each page of "The Horror at Beaver Creek" was created. 1. Thumbnails: Bianca began with creating draft thumbnails of each page creating a perfect visual basis to move onto the...

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An anonymous poet wrote a ribald parody of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven," published in 1927 as "The Mortal." The poem went through many hands and was reprinted in different forms in subsequent decades. This blogpost presents four variations of the slightly nsfw poem. deepcuts.blog/2026/10/24/l...

deepcuts.blogLost Tale: “The Mortal” (1927) by AnonymousEldritch Fappenings The following historical poetry is of a ribald nature, with both suggestive and explicit references to human sexuality. It is presented uncensored, as originally published. Read…
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Re-skeet for the evening crowd.

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An anonymous poet wrote a ribald parody of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven," published in 1927 as "The Mortal." The poem went through many hands and was reprinted in different forms in subsequent decades. This blogpost presents four variations of the slightly nsfw poem. deepcuts.blog/2026/10/24/l...

deepcuts.blogLost Tale: “The Mortal” (1927) by AnonymousEldritch Fappenings The following historical poetry is of a ribald nature, with both suggestive and explicit references to human sexuality. It is presented uncensored, as originally published. Read…
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An anonymous poet wrote a ribald parody of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven," published in 1927 as "The Mortal." The poem went through many hands and was reprinted in different forms in subsequent decades. This blogpost presents four variations of the slightly nsfw poem. deepcuts.blog/2026/10/24/l...

deepcuts.blogLost Tale: “The Mortal” (1927) by AnonymousEldritch Fappenings The following historical poetry is of a ribald nature, with both suggestive and explicit references to human sexuality. It is presented uncensored, as originally published. Read…
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I do not think I can adequately reconstruct the path that led me to finding these. Like, I found the first one, then went digging and found more variations, then went digging deeper and found some of the advertizing stuff in the newspapers and...yeah, it just snowballed.

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Should probably do a non-Universal follow up to this one at some point.

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What did H. P. Lovecraft think of classic Universal horror movies? A deep dive into Lovecraft's letters reveals the films he did and didn't watch, in Lovecraft & Universal Horror. deepcuts.blog/2026/01/24/d...

deepcuts.blogDeeper Cut: Lovecraft & Universal HorrorI don’t attend the cinema very often, but realise what a marvellous conveyer of weird images & impressions it could be if it would only utilise seriously its tremendous range of optical & m…