Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein

In 1941, Robert A. W. Lowndes became editor of a science-fiction pulp magazine titled Future, which had been merged with another magazine titled Science Fiction Quarterly, and over the next few years would go by such titles as Future Combined with Science Fiction, Future Fiction, Future Fantasy and Science Fiction, and Science Fiction Stories

In the letters of H. P. Lovecraft to R. H. Barlow compiled by S. T. Joshi and David E. Schultz in O Fortunate ...

When I read older stories, I try to have a bit of leeway for the general attitudes and goings-on of the times. What my grandfather felt and thought about is completely different from what I do in 2026.

I’d like to think we’ve grown a bit since

“I was wondering about my eyes; one of my eyes—the left—saw everything golden and yellow and orange, and the other eye saw shades of blue and grey and green; perhaps one eye was for daylight and the other was for night. If everyone in the world saw different colors from different eyes there might be a great many new colors still to be invented.
—Shirley Jackson, We Ha...

Writer Margaret St. Clair (1911-1995) was often described as a writer ahead of her time, as well as one whose work was, in Ramsey Campbell’s words “startlingly original.” Her work is often characterized as ‘weird fiction,’ as that term has evolved, with her characters finding the weird and disturbing in the relatively ordinary. During the course of her career, she authored ei...