August 20th was the birthday of the beloved “weird fiction” author H.P. Lovecraft. Like many writers, I confess that I failed to honor the occasion. But Peter Damien did notice that Lovecraft would ...

I have a confession to make: the only reason I did that entire silent film revivalism piece for Wired News was so I could get paid per word to write "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn ...

"Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn." ("In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.") --H.P. Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu" What has the head of an octopus, the body of a ...