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09.09.2020

“The House of the Worm” by Gary Myers

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"It is with special pride the publisher offers this first book by the young California writer Gary Myers. The imperially slim volume is an episodic novel, a collection of ten tales each a masterpiece of macabre fantasy structured to present the author’s own special insight into the Cthulhu Mythos – what Mr. Myers calls “an interesting heresy.” Brevity is the soul of Gary Myers’ style; his viewpoint is mordant, ironic and always perfect for striking a note of chilling terror. Whether he is being ocularly descriptive as with “The House of the Worm” and “The Maker of Gods,” in which the unrelenting terror is established as if a report from the pupil of the...>>

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09.09.2020

“Dark Wisdom” by Gary Myers

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"The evolution of the Cthulhu Mythos has been toward equal but opposite extremes of complexity and simplicity. Complexity, as the mythology of H. P. Lovecraft and his immediate circle was taken over by a band of enthusiastic later writers who elaborated and expanded it beyond all recognition. Simplicity, as in order to support this complicated structure, the distinctive elements of that mythology were diluted and blended into a truly amorphous whole. Dark Wisdom is a collection of modern Mythos stories that attempts to correct for both these extremes. Each of its twelve tales is written around one of the central tropes of the classic Mythos: a book like the Necronomicon, a race like the...>>

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09.09.2020

“Gray Magic” by Gary Myers

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"From the crowded shelf of Cthulhu Mythos grimoires, only the Necronomicon of Abdul Alhazred is consulted more frequently than The Book of Eibon. But Eibon himself is less well known. Clark Ashton Smith, the creator of Eibon and his book, wrote only one story about the Hyperborean wizard, and that one dealt with the end of his life. It has been left for Smith’s disciples to imagine the episodes of his earlier existence. Gray Magic is such an episode, and easily the most elaborate of the lot. For in the course of this one novel Eibon (and Cyron, his young apprentice) must take on an army of sorcerers and a brace of gods in...>>

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09.09.2020

“The Book of Eibon: Histories of the Elder Magi, Episodes of Eibon of Mhu Thulan, the Papyrus of the Dark Wisdom, Psalms of the Silent, and the Eibonic Rituals” by Clark Ashton Smith and Lin Carter

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"The Book of Eibon, the creation of Clark Ashton Smith, ranks behind Lovecraft's Necronomicon as a shunned repository of mystical horrors surviving blasphemously from elder eons. Not content with his own and Lovecraft's citations of the Book, Smith actually wrote two chapters of it, his famous stories "The Door to Saturn" and "The Coming of the White Worm." Lin Carter knew a good thing when he saw it and decided it would be fun to write and to read the remaining Eibonic chapters. So he took in hand to write a number of them, intending to finish the book one day. This he did not live to do, but others took up the fallen...>>

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09.09.2020

“How to Make Bad Things Happen to Awful People: Spells for Revenge, Power & Protection” by Deborah Gray

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"Life is beautiful but crossing paths with awful people can make your life a misery. It is a fact. Some people are beasts. This is a little book of 101 humorous hexes, protection spells, and banishing incantations. Gray helps readers to get back at errant boyfriends, dream-sabotaging scoundrels, and back-stabbing bitchy gossips. Spell titles include Dragon Slayer, Nanny No Go, Dirty Rotten Scoundrel, Troll Stalker, and Jinx Off. This is a high-spirited, fun, magical romp. The goal here is not only to have a good time but also to “get your mojo back,” re-learn the importance of laughing out loud, and regain your personal power. “Let's face it: some people are just horrible beasts. Why not live...>>

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