Yeah, I was surprised this isn't being written by Peter David. Let's take a character with an established back story and personality and just chuck all that and write whatever we want!

Nah, Shaman sounds like this guy:

I think I got ten cents a book - in store credit. Actual cash money would have far less. Comics, everybody!

I finished Dan Jones' Wars of the Roses last night, in part because I had been taking too long with it and needed to power my way to the end. It was good, certainly filled in the considerable gaps in my historical knowledge (Shakespeare is not history, apparently), and told in a lively and readable way. But so many…

What a dick.

I'll analyze it… with SCIENCE!

Will you take nominations instead?

Hot take!

Blackwood was one of Lovecraft's heroes and out-lived him. He eventually read some of Lovecraft's stuff and was not too impressed.

Well, to some people, anything west of Boston is "Western Massachusetts." But I think the only time Lovecraft ever mentioned anything in Western MA is in "The Whisperer in Darkness," when the narrator takes a train through Greenfield on his way to Brattleboro.

I believe Lovecraft wrote "The Dunwich Horror" after a visit to Wilbraham, home of Friendlys Ice Cream.

When I was first reading Lovecraft in my teens, I always assumed Arkham was close to Amherst, too. But it's actually faux Salem, much further east.

I was agreeing with you, and then I read that Vice article linked up there. And I threw up a little bit in my mouth.

Lovecraft himself referred to his collection of stories as "Yog-Sothery." Twas Derleth that gave us the "Cthulhu Mythos."

It leads to weirdness later on when I dig out those old runs to reread them. They just end at some point, clearly because I lost patience at the time, but maybe I'm much more forgiving on the reread, especially with the whole thing laid out in front of me. Then for a little while I entertain the notion of hunting down…

Yes. This is the most morbid of all curiosities.

Nyarlathotep?

That's in the Miskatonic Valley, Massachusetts. Specifically, the town of Arkham. You may want to forward that letter there.

Whoah! I'm internet famous now!

It's certainly wasted on children.