Much as it might suit my obscure and inhuman agenda to sling a brickbat in the direction of McSweeney’s, The Believer and the entire gasbag citadel of Eggers-ville, in the case of Michel Houellebecq’s H.P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life, I must toss a bouquet. Because in translating and reprinting this 1991 monograph on the horror writer H.P. Lovecraft,… return to article
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Reader Comments (1)Page 1 of 1 pagesGreat, hilarious review! You might like this anecdote: in the mid-90’s I recorded several CDs w/ Stephin Merritt and Magnetic Fields. During a session, while arranging a song, Stephin was stuck for a phrase. Smirking in his dry way, he opened a Lovecraft book and randomly selected: “...hideous city of unknown words..” You’ll hear it on Distant Plastic Trees cut 17. As Sammy Davis Jr used to say, “Whatever works, Babe.”
Best, Susan
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