What is refreshing in Clore s work is a misanthropy as rare in literature as the Asianic style itself. Here one can only look to some of the darkest satirists of the past two millennia--Juvenal, Jonathan Swift, Arthur Schopenhauer, Ambrose Bierce, and Shirley Jackson almost exhaust the catalogue. The idea that we are required to extend benevolence to human beings merely because they are human beings is one of the deepest and most irrational prejudices in human thought. Let us recall Lovecraft: 'may not all mankind be a mistake--an abnormal growth--a disease in the system of Nature--an excrescence on the body of infinite progression like a wart on the human hand? Might not the total destruction of humanity, as well as of all animate creation, be a positive boon to Nature as a whole?' Whether Clore agrees with this remark is only for him to say; but that misanthropy is at the heart of all the tales of Lord Weyrdgliffe can hardly be gainsaid. --S.T. Joshi, from the Introduction
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The Unspeakable written by Dan Clore is definitely not for the squeamish. Good horror literature as this, is indeed rare. Deeply dark without being prurient. Each tale is a fantabulous mind-bending trip of Lovecraftian proportions. All the tales (stand seperate), form a cohesive binding whole that makes the Unspeakable, speak. Each story is a "penny dreadful" written by the exo-outerly enigmatic Lord Weyrdgliffe of the Waughters. Highly recommend this in small doses on those nights you want to be creeped out!
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Mr. Clore is a master of the macabre prose poem. He is astonishingly inventive, and devises images not soon forgotten. He is willing to take risks from which most writers would flee in terror. He is unlikely to appeal to Babbitts or the semiliterate, but admirers of Poe, or the Decadents, or Clark Ashton Smith, should find his work of considerable interest. Sophisticated Lovecraftians will enjoy the outlandish and sometimes hilarious Cthulhuvian essays which are also included.
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Over the top grotesques, similar to C. A. Smith if he had been un-edited. Makes Stephen King look like a sissy.
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