"Emperor of Dreams: A Clark Ashton Smith Bibliography" compiled by Donald Sidney-Fryer, published by Donald M. Grant in 1978. An extensive bibliography of Clark Ashton Smith's poetry and fiction which also contains excerpts, photos, and other biographical information. 1/3

Weird Friction I made a timeline of Lovecraft-inspired occult literature. sapientastellarum.blogspot.com/p/chronology-o…

"The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith, Vol. 1: The End of the Story" edited by Scott Connors and Ron Hilger, published by Night Shade Books in 2007. The first book in a five-volume set collecting the entirety of Clark Ashton Smith's short fiction for the first time. 1/3

"Fungi from Yuggoth: An Annotated Edition" by H.P. Lovecraft, edited by David E. Schultz, published by Hippocampus Press in 2017. Limited to 300 copies. This deluxe edition of Lovecraft's supernatural sonnet cycle is bound in green cloth and printed entirely in green ink. 1/3

This book was gifted from one man named Clifford to another man named Clifford just about 100 years ago:

A bit of Weird Nonfiction 📚

"The Shadow of the Torturer" (1980)

With the arrival of "The Novel" today, I have finally reunited the fabled lost Atlantis Fragments in their hardcover form.

It was left there by a queer ghoul-fingered fellow whose irregular cranium circumference implied an ancestral predilection for dark sorcery.

THE HELL CANDIDATE by Graham Masterton. Centipede Press S/L HC (reprint), 2024. Intro by Grady Hendrix. Andrew Monge Stefan Dziemianowicz Joe Lansdale Tommy Atkinson Andrew Nette Theo Paijmans Jimtendo 5.4 Weird Friction Matthew Sullivan Char’s Horror Corner Stephen King Might Recommend Steven Sheil (aka @scsheil.bsky.social) 𝓖𝓦 📚 Josh H Michael Casper

Recently, I've started working my way through sharing/resharing each book on this shelf of hardcover Cthulhu Mythos anthologies. I'll be sharing one of the all-time classic Mythos anthologies, "Cthulhu 2000," soon.

Purportedly Jim Turner's ETERNAL LOVECRAFT had been planned as an Arkham House anthology before Jim--uh--"moved on" and took it to Golden Gryphon.

Weird Friction This one takes itself too seriously

Yesterday's featured book 📖

Tonight's book posts have been postponed due to new resident library cat orientation.

I've decided that this will be the next novel I read, starting either tonight or tomorrow after work. I've heard it has a deep and unique religious/spiritual/magic system. Mr. Schweitzer also wrote a pretty cool inscription in my copy, which will be the 'featured book' tomorrow.

Howard takes himself too seriously.

Weird Friction “I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.” – Jean Cocteau