Now Available--Weird Words: A Lovecraftian Lexicon
Dan Clore
EVENT:
Weird Words: A Lovecraftian Lexicon, by Dan Clore, published by
Hippocampus Press, is now available.
Eldritch . . . cacodaemoniacal . . . lucubration . . . Have you ever
wondered about the meaning of these and other esoteric words used by
Lovecraft and his colleagues? In this Cyclopean dictionary, the product
of aeons of erudition and research into the most recondite recesses of
literature, Dan Clore not only defines thousands of words found in the
work of A. Merritt, H. P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E.
Howard, and many others in the weird fantasy tradition, but supplies
their etymologies and, most impressively, provides parallel usages of
the words from centuries of English usage, citing authors ranging from
Cotton Mather to Henry Kuttner, from Edmund Spenser to William S.
Burroughs, from Edgar Allan Poe to Robert Anton Wilson. This is a volume
that scholars of English usage, enthusiasts of fantasy and horror
literature, and readers who love the beauty of the English language will
find richly rewarding . . . either to read from beginning to end or to
dip into as the mood strikes them.
Purchase from Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/0982429649/ref=nosim/thedanclorenecro
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Dan Clore is a freelance writer and scholar whose works are well known
to fans of H.P. Lovecraft (1890-1937), a noted and influential author of
weird fiction. Mr. Clore's publishing credits include critical essays in
Lovecraft Studies, Studies in Weird Fiction, Necrofile; the Review of
Horror Fiction, Weird Times, the anthologies A Century Less a Dream:
Selected Criticism of H.P. Lovecraft, The Freedom of Fantastic Things:
Selected Criticism on Clark Ashton Smith, and Supernatural Fiction of
the World: an Encyclopedia. His fiction has appeared in publications
such as The Urbanite, Deathrealm, Terminal Fright, Epitaph, Black
October Magazine, Cthulhu Sex, Lore, and several others. His work is
anthologized in The Last Continent: New Tales of Zothique and in
Eldritch Horrors: Dark Tales. His collected works appeared as The
Unspeakable and Others in 2001. A new, expanded edition, illustrated by
Allen Koszowski, is scheduled for 2009.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Dan Clore
1805 7th Street
Columbia City, OR 97018-9733
503 397-4430
cl...@colcenter.org
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Dan Clore
New book: _Weird Words: A Lovecraftian Lexicon_:
http://tinyurl.com/yd3bxkw
My collected fiction, _The Unspeakable and Others_:
(Wait for the new edition: http://hplmythos.com/ )
Lord We�rdgliffe & Necronomicon Page:
http://tinyurl.com/292yz9
News & Views for Anarchists & Activists:
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Strange pleasures are known to him who flaunts the
immarcescible purple of poetry before the color-blind.
-- Clark Ashton Smith, "Epigrams and Apothegms"
Jerry Friedman
On Oct 26, 4:21 am, Dan Clore <cl...@columbia-center.org> wrote:
> PRESS RELEASE
>
> EVENT:
>
> Weird Words: A Lovecraftian Lexicon, by Dan Clore, published by
> Hippocampus Press, is now available.
...
A heaven-pshent event.
> Strange pleasures are known to him who flaunts the
> immarcescible purple of poetry before the color-blind.
> -- Clark Ashton Smith, "Epigrams and Apothegms"
I resemble that remark!
(Must look up "immarcescible".)
--
Jerry Friedman
Peter T. Daniels
It means 'cannot be marcesced'.
Brian M. Scott
<jerry_f...@yahoo.com> wrote in
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in
sci.lang,alt.english.usage,alt.usage.english,alt.books,rec.arts.books.tolkien:
> [alt.horror and alt.pulp trimmed]
> On Oct 26, 4:21�am, Dan Clore <cl...@columbia-center.org> wrote:
[...]
>> Strange pleasures are known to him who flaunts the
>> immarcescible purple of poetry before the color-blind.
>> -- Clark Ashton Smith, "Epigrams and Apothegms"
> I resemble that remark!
> (Must look up "immarcescible".)
'Unfading, lasting'; direct steal of Latin
<iimmarcescibilis> 'unfading, unwithering'. Classical Latin
has <marcere> 'to wither, droop, shrink, shrivel', later
also <marcescere> 'to wither, pine away, droop, die'.
Brian
Derek Broughton
> [alt.horror and alt.pulp trimmed]
>
I really don't object to getting this, but isn't it actually _more_
appropriate to those to groups than the Tolkien groups?
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derek
Peter Moylan
The general rule: when an article is crossposted, the people in every
affected group will decide that it belongs in some newsgroup other than
their own.
--
Peter Moylan, Newcastle, NSW, Australia. http://www.pmoylan.org
For an e-mail address, see my web page.
Derek Broughton
> Derek Broughton wrote:
>> Jerry Friedman wrote:
>>
>>> [alt.horror and alt.pulp trimmed]
>>>
>> I really don't object to getting this, but isn't it actually _more_
>> appropriate to those to groups than the Tolkien groups?
>
> The general rule: when an article is crossposted, the people in every
> affected group will decide that it belongs in some newsgroup other than
> their own.
No, I'm not objecting to it being in "my" newsgroup - it's interesting. I
just don't understand why somebody would trim newsgroups that seem even more
appropriate. Especially when the poster is not known for posting to
rec.arts.books.tolkien in the first place.
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derek
Jerry Friedman
Probably. I just trimmed the last two without thinking because GG
won't let me post to more than five groups.
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Jerry Friedman
Dan Clore
Probably, but the book does have a lot of Tolkien quotes in it. (There
*may* be a Tolkien-oriented companion volume sometime in the future.)
--
Dan Clore
New book: _Weird Words: A Lovecraftian Lexicon_:
http://tinyurl.com/yd3bxkw
My collected fiction, _The Unspeakable and Others_:
(Wait for the new edition: http://hplmythos.com/ )
Lord We�rdgliffe & Necronomicon Page:
http://tinyurl.com/292yz9
News & Views for Anarchists & Activists:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo
Strange pleasures are known to him who flaunts the