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October 1, 2025
What The Moon Brings by H. P. Lovecraft Review and Analysis
H. P. Lovecraft was really into dreams. What The Moon Brings is his second story in a row focused on his dream-world, and of course one of many over his writing journey which tackled this topic. Our main character is in a dreamy garden, but of course it’s not a sensical garden. It just goes
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Hypnos by H. P. Lovecraft Review and Analysis
Hypnos is a dream-focused short story by H. P. Lovecraft. In it a guy becomes obsessed with another person who is gorgeous, even before hearing them speak. The twist in this case is the main character is a sculptor and the object of obsession is a handsome dude. Even before the handsome-man says a single
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September 23, 2025
Memory by H. P. Lovecraft Review and Analysis
Memory is a lovely short-short story / flash fiction piece. You begin in the aftermath of a great civilization, with ruined temples, fallen walls, etc. Nature is taking back over. There are cute frogs and little apes. Only a genie and a Daemon remain, chatting over what happened long ago. Neither of them really remember
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The Lurking Fear by H. P. Lovecraft Review and Analysis
We have back-to-back multi-episode serial stories by Lovecraft. Luckily in this one, The Lurking Fear, Lovecraft didn’t have to do his in-story recaps that they required from him in Herbert West Reanimator. As a result, I decided to just do one review covering all four parts of this story. The story hops around in time,
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September 22, 2025
Herbert West Reanimator Part 6 – The Tomb-Legions by H. P. Lovecraft Review and Analysis
Finally, we have reached the ultimate sixth chapter in Lovecraft’s short story magazine series Herbert West Reanimator. This chapter is named The Tomb-Legions. Like the rest, we get an extensive recap so that people who picked up this magazine without reading the previous ones can catch up on the story. Yes, the narrator is the
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Herbert West Reanimator Part 5 – The Horror From The Shadows by H. P. Lovecraft Review and Analysis
It’s the penultimate chapter. We are getting closer to the “now” of the story, when something happens to Herbert West. But we’re not quite there yet. This episode takes place during World War I. The two doctors have a few years experience under their belts and Dr. West is keen to go off to War.
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September 20, 2025
Herbert West Reanimator Part 4 – The Scream of the Dead by H. P. Lovecraft Review and Analysis
I think the strongly racist tone of Part 3 of this series made me even less keen on making my way through it. I just don’t connect with the two main characters, with their complete lack of empathy on using people for zombie experiments. I keep rooting for the zombies to slaughter these two. On
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Herbert West Reanimator Part 3 – Six Shots by Midnight by H. P. Lovecraft Review and Analysis
Now that we’re at episode 3 of Herbert West Reanimator, the amount of recap we have to read through before we start the main story is getting worse. If someone had not read the first two issues of this magazine, they had to be fully caught up with these college kids and their antics before
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Herbert West Reanimator Part 2 – The Plague-Daemon by H. P. Lovecraft Review and Analysis
Here we are in Part 2 of Herbert West Reanimator. As these were written episode-by-episode for a magazine, each new story is going to include a lot of recap of the previous episodes. You just have to accept that as you read through the segments. It can help to leave a week between readings, to
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June 19, 2025
SciFi Romance Novel Cover Designs
I’ve been writing scifi romance novels for over a decade. Cover designs for this genre have gone through quite a lot of changes in that time. I just in 2025 finished my latest revamp of the covers for my four-book Collective Saga series, plus the box set. All four books – Aquarian Awakenings, Betelgeuse Beguiling,
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