You're on the money though. The Call of Cthulhu RPG was the moment Lovecraft made the leap from cult author within the already fairly cult sci-fi/horror arena to something more mainstream. When the game came out a lot of RPG mags ran features on Lovecraft and his world. It embedded him in a wider culture, albeit one…

Why can't working class people just understand that the privileged middle class knows what's good for everybody? The whole point of a referendum is that the uneducated and the poor vote the way the establishment tells them.

Another way of breaking it down is that poorer, working class people voted to leave and richer, middle class people wanted to stay. What's the world coming to when rich people can't get their own way in a democratic referendum?

I guess the majority of Britons think having control over their own laws and borders is more important than money. The crazy lunatics. Don't they realise this vote makes it harder for middle class people to holiday abroad and eat nice cheese?

A book for anyone who ever thought Lovecraft's stories would be more effective if they were written by a middle-class social justice campaigner and drained of any effective supernatural elements. Because the real horror is racism. And the only person who can tell us that is a white guy with glasses.

"Borderline genocidal"? You mean contemporary Romanians do everything possible to the Roma up to but not including physically exterminating all of them? Don't be so dumb. Being a Roma is no picnic but official harassment and everyday racist comments are not "borderline genocide". Go find a Holocaust survivor and…

Yeah! Showing solidarity with a nation that's been the victim of a horrific terror attack isn't something you'll catch us liberals doing! We've got integrity!

"We don’t usually know that Lolita was originally a story, pilfered almost beat-for-beat by Nabokov and reworked into his towering novel."
We don't know because that isn't true. Some academic got very worked up a few years back because he had discovered a German short story which featured a (very) young female…

The Spanish Foreign Legion was the destination of choice for any right-wing and/or catholic foreigners who wanted to get involved in the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s. There's a book about it called 'Franco's International Brigades'.

Your upbringing must have been pretty strict if you think adults need an excuse not to see a movie. I'm guessing you also think it's necessary to supply a note from your parents if you want to skip a session with your personal trainer at the gym. Tough life.

Or unless you're Victor Salva in which case you'll get out of prison and be hired by Disney. Jeepers creepers.

By that logic, Pinochet's coup in Chile can be excused. And re-read your history book: the forces that overthrew Batista were a mix of opposition groups from communist to right-wing nationalist. The communists were one of the smallest of those groups. Castro did a good job of consolidating power and imprisoning former…

The Kosinski book was accused of ripping off a 1932 Polish language novel by Tadeusz Dolega-Mostowicz.

It is irrelevant that the older guy thought the break up was a sign they should be together. It takes two to make a relationship. She agreed to go out with him. She needs to admit her role in all this rather than playing a passive victim who has no agency. There is nothing less attractive than a person who refuses to…

Not unless he took an overdose and escaped into a fantasy world. Joel McHale is 42.