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Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein @deepcuts.blog · 1h

Book catalogue project, entry 789: To Yith and Beyond (1990, The Moshassuck Press) by Duane W. Rimel. In green covers. Clean pages, minimal wear. Signed by author.

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Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein @deepcuts.blog · 9h

Phrase of the night: "I am a watchdog. My name is Snuff." Beginning my annual re-read of A NIGHT IN THE LONESOME OCTOBER by Roger Zelazny, as is tradition.

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Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein @deepcuts.blog · 9h

“The sex of the contributor has no influence on our decision,” was another thing [Farnsworth Wright] told me. “The story’s the thing. The only reason we publish men instead of women is because men apparently send us the best stories.” archive.org/details/sim_...

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The Author and Journalist 1927-08: Vol 12 Iss 8

The Author and Journalist 1927-08: Volume 12, Issue 8.Digitized from IA1514206-05.Previous issue: sim_author-journalist_the-author-and-journalis_1927-07_12_7.Next issue: sim_author-journalist_the-auth...

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Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein @deepcuts.blog · 11h

"Wirra," sobbed the woman as she slipped off the scarf with which her head had been covered during prayers, "bad cess to th' murtherin' heathen that kilt that fine, upstandin' lad. May th' curse o' Cromwell be upon them!"

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Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein @deepcuts.blog · 11h

76) “The Fighting Races” - 3.5 pages. A brief account of the life, death, and burial of Daniel Flannagan, an Irish-American boy who made good in all things and died serving in the US Army during the Korean War. With lots of Irishisms. Perhaps even Oirishisms.

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Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein @deepcuts.blog · 13h

Cookie opened a restaurant & grog shop. The house was filled with the sounds of children. Mrs. Cookie reminisced a little about the old days. Sometimes, when the salt wind blew, they closed up early, and all the waiters and cooks watched her scrub the decks. Poorly. So she had to be punished.

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Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein @deepcuts.blog · 14h

It could not be said all of them lived happily ever after. Pirate lives tend to be brutish, bloody, and short. Gold and gems flow through fingers easily, and though the wine sparkles as it fills the cups, a ship is only ever one step ahead of the Royal Navy. Cap'n Cookie retired nine months later.

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Lucynka @lucynka.bsky.social · 14h

New vintage article! Part 4 of Willard E. Hawkins' series on the #romance pulps, with "The Reaction" (AUTHOR & JOURNALIST, June 1943)—that is, how the hero and heroine react to each other after their initial meeting. Can you recognize these core rxns in romance novels today? #pulp #romancelandia

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Vintage Article: “The Student Writer—The Reaction”

Circumstances (getting back to work on my Jane Littell collection, along with some Real Life stuff) mean that I’ve been unable to knock out a review this month, but there’s just enough time for a v…

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Bert Piedmont author and editor @bertpiedmont.bsky.social · 16h

Submissions for Queering Cthulhu are OPEN a few hours early. Please spread the word to your #LGBTQ+ writing brethren. #subcall #cthulhu #queerhorror obsidianbutterfly.com/qrcthsub.html

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Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein @deepcuts.blog · 17h

On the plus side, you could scream it like Goku! KAAAA-NAAAA TAAAA-LEEEEE YEEEEEEEEEEE!

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Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein @deepcuts.blog · 18h

"Orders, Cap'n?" the former quartermaster asked, after the bodies had been consigned to the sea. "Scrub your own shafts, lads, and polish your own pearls, lassies," Mrs. Cookie said. "I'll clean none save my husband's from here on. Look ye!" A ship on the horizon. "Plunder and arse!" they cried.

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Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein @deepcuts.blog · 18h

Oh no. The Dunwich Horror (2008)?

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Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein @deepcuts.blog · 18h

Mrs. Cookie jollied that roger with increasing ardor. As she raised and lowered her flag, her husband huffing as well as he could beneath, she saw the conspirators move behind key members of the crew. The signal was a pistol bursting the Captain's brain. Her cry of joy was only partially marital.

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Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein @deepcuts.blog · 18h

It was a tight berth. Weeks as a wench had not prepared her barrel for such a reaming. Salty old dogs doffed their caps in respect as the bride hoisted herself on that main mast for the first of many times. Even the Captain stared in awe. Unaware the quartermaster was about to seize her chance.

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Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein @deepcuts.blog · 20h

"Well-wed!" The Captain cried, after all the dos had been said. "But let us see this marriage well-consummated!" Now, none had seen Cookie with his trousers down. The crew fell silent in shock. The cook's new bride, who quavered not at bullet nor blade, cannon or cutlass, felt her knees shake.

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Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein @deepcuts.blog · 21h

There were two planks laid out. And a ring made from a spoon. The wench thought carefully about the choice before her. "Dearly beloved," the Captain jeered. "We are gathered here today to witness the marriage of Cookie and our Wench...or watch them walk the plank. Which shall it be? Do you take—"

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Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein @deepcuts.blog · 21h

Satan oscillate my metallic sonatas.

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Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein @deepcuts.blog · 21h

They caught them when Cookie had fried some potatoes for her. He knew that was the Wench's favorite treat. Now, the skillet of crispy taters was about to be a death sentence. "Seems our cook is giving our wench special treatment!" The Captain said. "He's sweet on her! What shall we do with them?"

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Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein @deepcuts.blog · 21h

Swabbing the deck in the mornings. Nights as the ship's pillow. Cookie smuggled in food when he could. A loaf of bread here. Bottle of beer there. The mutinous captain had decreed the wench would live off seed until she died of scurvy. Only suspected something wrong when she began to gain weight.

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Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein @deepcuts.blog · 21h

They left her on the deck. Cookie lumbered in. "Cap'n says you've had enough to eat," he rumbled. Then leaned in close and whispered. "But y'know, I got some chowder left." The Wench lifted her head. For anyone else, that would be a taunt. Cookie held a steaming bowl. "Didn't even wank in it."

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Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein @deepcuts.blog · 22h

<shrug> I imagine he gets a lot of random mail.

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Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein @deepcuts.blog · 22h

Y'know, I tried to get him to recreate the curry recipe that Lovecraft ate, but never got a response.

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Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein @deepcuts.blog · 23h

"It is really very hard to work with a superstition as well-known & conventionalised as those of the vampire & werewolf. Some day I may idly try my hand, but so far I have found original synthetic horrors much more tractable." —H. P. Lovecraft to Clark Ashton Smith, [7 Nov 1930]

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Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein @deepcuts.blog · 30/09/2026

Sweeping or cleaning the bathroom is a favorite one. Busies the body, let's the mind wander. Filling the well; read something you wouldn't normally read. Watch something you wouldn't normally watch. Often a change is as good as a rest. Try writing in a different genre, even if only an outline.

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Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein @deepcuts.blog · 30/09/2026

Book catalogue project, entry 788: The Forbidden Room (1988, The Moshassuck Press) by Duane W. Rimel. In green folder. Clean pages, minimal wear. 55/75. Signed by author.

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Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein @deepcuts.blog · 30/09/2026

...did they uninvent the writing slate?

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Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein @deepcuts.blog · 29/09/2026

75) “Fred McPherson’s Memorial” - 3 pages. Fred McPherson had set everything up so his son would inherit immediately upon his death - but when he died, his son was overseas. To avoid a pauper's burial, Burke paid for the funeral himself. McPherson funeral paid Burke back with interest.

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Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein @deepcuts.blog · 29/09/2026

The speed at which anti-vax bullshit was mainstreamed is INSANE. Something was rotten long before that happened, but the collapse in trust in literal life-saving technology has just been...I'm screaming inside my heart.

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Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein @deepcuts.blog · 29/09/2026

Ceramicists plan, Father Nurgle laughs.

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Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein @deepcuts.blog · 29/09/2026

I am still behind on a lot of the 2020s revamps of Universal monsters, but I feel there's some interesting stuff there.

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Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein @deepcuts.blog · 29/09/2026

And then Luc Besson lifted the plot of BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA, and added perfume.

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Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein @deepcuts.blog · 29/09/2026

Recommendation: Based on the original film, but focuses on thhe perspective of the half-Egyptian/half-British reincarnation of Ankh-Es-En-Amun, who is out of place in society due to her mixed heritage and gender.

Cover of THE MUMMY comic. The mummy Imhotep stares out at the reader, while unwrapping the bandages from his shaven head.

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Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein @deepcuts.blog · 29/09/2026

Be the person that Jem's holographic mother uploaded into the supercomputer believes you can be.

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Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein @deepcuts.blog · 29/09/2026

None of that's going to make it into the piece, although I might revisit at some point if its popular or if it develops into a nagging obsession in the back of my brain that refuses to let me go until I write it up. Can't say that hasn't happened before, although the readership is rarely there.

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Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein @deepcuts.blog · 29/09/2026

Fell down a wiki hole researching this next piece and ended up with material way out of scope, but an interesting sidelight into the queer history of weird fiction and how it eventually led to a change in Great Britain's sodomy laws. Funny old world.

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Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein @deepcuts.blog · 29/09/2026

I am now all keyed up to see “The Nameless Offspring”—(Iä! Shub-Niggurath! The Awful Sacrament of the Hills!)—for which you have certainly selected an admirable motto from Dr. Dee’s translation of the Necronomicon. —H. P. Lovecraft to Clark Ashton Smith, [26 Mar 1931]

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Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein @deepcuts.blog · 29/09/2026

Hah. Reminds me of going through the microfiche of old Sears & Roebucks catalogs, to see which grimoires they were selling by mail order.

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Minilla Jovovich 🍉 read Merynthia's Master ⚔️🪱🐦 @minillajovovich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

SURPRISE DROP! Inspired by Robert E. Howard's historical fiction, "The Lily & The Lion" tells the story of two knights on opposing sides of the Battle of the Golden Spurs in the Franco-Flemish war of the early 14th century. Pay what u want at my itch.io spot! luana420.itch.io/the-lily-the...

A b&w drawing of a mounted knight in heated battle, surrounded by pikemen.

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Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein @deepcuts.blog · 29/09/2026

Now imagining someone making the argument for dugongs.

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