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.
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
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.
--
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
"Tho-ag in Zhi-gyu slept seven Khorlo. Zodmanas
zhiba. All Nyug bosom. Konch-hog not; Thyan-Kam
not; Lha-Chohan not; Tenbrel Chugnyi not;
Dharmakaya ceased; Tgenchang not become; Barnang
and Ssa in Ngovonyidj; alone Tho-og Yinsin in
night of Sun-chan and Yong-grub (Parinishpanna),
&c., &c.,"
-- The Book of Dzyan.
icarp...@aol.com
I can't wait to get my copy. Wilum already posted a review
Matt
Al Smith
Way to go, Dan. You finally got this sucker out the door. Should be
a fun book to browse.
-Al-
Robert Carnegie
> PRESS RELEASE
>
> EVENT:
>
> Weird Words: A Lovecraftian Lexicon, by Dan Clore, published by
> Hippocampus Press, is now available.
We worry, as always, for the typesetters. Does the doctor see any
signs of recovery yet? Well, early days, early days. Hmm...
shouldn't have put it like that.. :-)
Dan Clore
It was quite a job for the typesetter, and my eyes were konking out at
the end so I had to beg off proofreading, but I've found very few
mistakes and none of any significance. I'm extremely pleased with the
way the book came out.
--
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
immarcescible purple of poetry before the color-blind.
-- Clark Ashton Smith, "Epigrams and Apothegms"
Aaron Vanek
Wish we could have met at the HPLFF. Next year?
Aaron
Robert Carnegie: Fnord: cc talk-origins@moderators.isc.org
> Robert Carnegie wrote:
> > Dan Clore wrote:
> >> PRESS RELEASE
>
> >> EVENT:
>
> >> Weird Words: A Lovecraftian Lexicon, by Dan Clore, published by
> >> Hippocampus Press, is now available.
>
> > We worry, as always, for the typesetters. Does the doctor see any
> > signs of recovery yet? Well, early days, early days. Hmm...
> > shouldn't have put it like that.. :-)
>
> It was quite a job for the typesetter, and my eyes were konking out at
> the end so I had to beg off proofreading,
A lucky escape then. :-D
> I've found very few mistakes and none of any
> significance. I'm extremely pleased with the
> way the book came out.
Congratulations and well done! (Still leaving aside the possible
basic mistake in compiling a handy reference book about Things Man Was
Not Meant To Know. Magnificent terrible foolishness. ;-)
Dan Clore
> Awesome Dan, congrats.
>
> Wish we could have met at the HPLFF. Next year?
Perhaps. And then I can begin my career as a movie star!
William December Starr
Dan Clore <cl...@columbia-center.org> said:
> "Tho-ag in Zhi-gyu slept seven Khorlo. Zodmanas
> zhiba. All Nyug bosom. Konch-hog not; Thyan-Kam
> not; Lha-Chohan not; Tenbrel Chugnyi not;
> Dharmakaya ceased; Tgenchang not become; Barnang
> and Ssa in Ngovonyidj; alone Tho-og Yinsin in
> night of Sun-chan and Yong-grub (Parinishpanna),
> &c., &c.,"
> -- The Book of Dzyan.
Zirn Left Unguarded,
the Jenghik Palace in Flames,
Jon Westerly Dead.
-- wds