Nurse Heloise is bringing you your medicine. Don’t tell the other patients this, but she’s not a real nurse. (Auction Here – ends when it ends)

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Nurse Heloise is bringing you your medicine. The crowd is here to hold you down while she administers it. (Auction Here – ends when it ends)

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Nurse Heloise is bringing you your medicine. Doctor Jacobson is very concerned about your condition. (Auction Here – 5/3/12)

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Nurse Heloise is bringing you your medicine. (Auction Here – ended already)

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Nurse Heloise is bringing you your medicine. She has found that you will only comply when Mr. Boxes delivers it. (Auction Here – ends 5/7/12)

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Nurse Heloise is bringing you your medicine. Please pardon her if she walks through your imaginary friends. (Auction Here – ends 5/5/12)

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Nurse Heloise is bringing you your medicine. She looks like this when viewed from a distance. (Auction Here – ends 5/4/12)

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Nurse Heloise is bringing you your medicine. Some nights she tosses and turns in bed with dreams of escaping this drudgery. (Auction Here – ends when it ends and expensive)

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Nurse Heloise is bringing you your medicine. (Auction Here – ends when it ends)

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KEEPER of
the BONES
by Ken Cooper

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It’s my lucky day, Friday the 13th, and I’ve chosen a special subject for this week. This is, very certainly, as identified on the back, a photo from the studio of Franz Xaver Setzer (1886-1939), a photographer who worked in Vienna. Setzer had occasion to photograph actors, actresses, composers, and writers, as well as aristocrats, politicians, and prominent businessmen. A Google image search on Setzer brings up some very interesting photos, but nothing quite like this item. The severely plucked eyebrows here make me think it was taken around 1930. Written in pencil on the back, it says “Vogue – Dec 15″. Compare (with some imagination) to this photo of Myrna Loy from the movie Thirteen Women (1932). Is it me, or does the tiara look like it was made from paper?

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We’re off to a solid start with a sequel of sorts to Lovecraft’s own PICKMAN’S MODEL. This first selection paints an uncanny portrait of PICKMAN’S OTHER MODEL, a decidedly unsavory woman with how-do-you-call-it? Fishy ancestry. As told by a malcontent lowlife who spends some time tracking her from a distance. By Caitlin R. Kiernan

Speaking of lowlifes: Besides fatally curious academics and deranged artists, who else seeks forbidden supernatural knowledge? If the quest of the Twenty First Century Cthulhu cultist amounted to a drug deal crossed with an urban legend, then it might be called COPPING SQUID. Interesting idea, but comes off a little comical. By Michael Shea

My favorite story from this collection details the descent and corruption of a man haunted by supernatural beings who he first encountered in his youth. While he has spent the intervening years trying to forget, they have merely been biding their time. The beginning and end occur underneath our protagonist’s current domicile, a residential hotel named THE BROADSWORD. By Laird Barron

A loving husband finds himself USURPED, and attracted like a moth to a flame, when a terrifying and unexpected brush with the supernatural sends him on a journey to find its source. By William Browning Spencer

The world has come undone, and a person in the know details how it was caused by DENKER’S BOOK, the product of a man who would pay any price and go to any lengths to translate a tome of forbidden knowledge. By David J. Schow

Creepy, thrilling, and at times maddeningly boring, but ultimately humorous and satisfying: TEMPTING PROVIDENCE. An artist visits his alma mater to find himself in a battle of wits with unwelcome trans-dimensional predators and a psychopathic gallery director. By Jonathan Thomas

A scientist interested in crytozoological genetics visits a remote English island hoping to uncover THE TRUTH ABOUT PICKMAN, and leaves with far more truth than he probably wanted. By Brian Stableford.

I personally would not have expected a Lovecraftian anthology to contain a post-apocalyptic gore-fest as perpetrated by LESSER DEMONS, but I still thought this was a hum-dinger. By Norman Partridge

Completely unknown to the world at large, events that might eventually unknit the world are happening deep inside SUSIE as she molders away in an Edwardian insane asylum. By Jason Van Hollander

Here we have interesting stories based on various parts of the Lovecraft mythos, three different stories with takes on Lovecraft’s PICKMAN’S MODEL, and a few stories that don’t really have much to do with Lovecraft, but which are still entertaining in their own right. I think it’s safe to say that nobody REALLY writes like Lovecraft, especially the authors who claim that they do. Is that a bad thing? It’s hard to say. Mostly I’m glad to read a collection like this, where some great authors have taken the time and effort to craft stories that Lovecraft fans will find entertaining and interesting. Sure there were some disappointing stories here, but for the most part this collection is worthwhile. I would recommend it to fans of the genre.

Black Wings of Cthulhu – Edited by S.T. Joshi – Titan Books – 2012

Many thanks to Titan Books for sending me a review copy of this book.

Ah! The past, back when the future looked so much better than it does now. These days, people in the future are locked into stuggles of life and death where innocents find themselves pitted against each other in long, bitter battles involving merciless violence and planned, heartless attrition. Hi beautiful lady from the Future! You sure do look good today. You’ve got your lights on, I see.

Miss Myrtle Reinheart at the Chicago Merchandise Mart Home Furnishing show……….7-2-1937

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Usually I write a little intro with what I like about a cover, but COME ON:

LOVE CRIME DETECTIVE MAGAZINE
Formerly DOUBLE DETECTIVE

And her bangs. Don’t the bangs say it all? OK. OK. Maybe they don’t. Enquiring minds want to know: What, exactly, is she sitting on? If it’s a bed, then she’s been building a pillow fort with her illicit lover. Why is she in a nightgown AND clutching some clothes to her chest? Is it me, or is that a lot of clothes? Is this a hotel room? This menacing character in the prison clothes, is he standing in the hall? Is that Bela Lugosi? Who left the door open? Why does the room look 2 feet deep? Where is her illicit lover, anyways? The shower? He’s asleep at the wheel, I say. WTF is that picture hanging on the wall? It looks like a man in a black space suit rowing a black canoe across a black river on a starless night. In the dark. Without a flashlight. I like it.

PASSION DOOMS
THE GAY WIDOW

THE
HUSBAND
BETRAYED

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This is what she’ll look like when she first considers murdering you.
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This is how the idea will appear in that first moment.
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This is what she’ll look like when she sets the events in motion.
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This is what she’ll look like when she comes to kill you.
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This is what will greet you at the door when she rings.
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This is how your life will appear as it flashes before your eyes.
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This is what it will look like when your body is divided.
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This is all that will be left of you for the morgue doctors to examine.
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This is what the homicide detective will imagine she looks like after he finds what she drew in lipstick on your mirror.
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When questioned, this is what the bus driver will report having seen.
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This is what she’ll look like the day after.
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I love old photos that are all messed up with cracks, spots, foxing, and holes. Sometimes I’ll scan a photo and clean up some of the flaws, and then I’ll think to myself: It doesn’t look as good. I love the duck in this photo, and the magician’s assistant. Auction Here (Ends 2/27)

R is for Rhoda consumed by a fire. Auction Here (Ended already)

The dog looks like a puppet, doesn’t it? Auction Here (Ends 2/23)

This photo has a kind of real – not real – real thing going on. Auction Here (Ends 2/23)

Two people who were very clearly waiting for the photographer. Auction Here (Ends 2/23)

The Invention of Colour by Ben Hartnett. Too bad they can’t do these in black. via

Pick Your Poison by Phil Jones – via

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FOG OVER KISKA
by Lew Merrill

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