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Summer of Unknown Writers: Mary Elizabeth Counselman

  • July 30, 2010

By Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Welcome to another edition of “Summer of Unknown Writers”, where Innsmouth Free Press explores those books, stories and writers that time forgot.

Mary Elizabeth Counselman was born in 1911, grew up on a plantation and began writing at a young age. Her name probably does not strike instant recognition in most readers of horror fiction. But she published extensively, including 30 stories in Weird Tales (Allison V. Harding, another regular staple at this magazine, might have been …

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Interviews

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Micro-interview: Pamela Rentz

  • July 30, 2010

Pamela Rentz’s story, Estelle Makes the Casino Run, can be found in the June 2010 fiction issue of Innsmouth Free Press.

Pamela Rentz is an enrolled member of the Karuk Tribe of California and works as a paralegal specializing in Indian Affairs. She is a graduate of Clarion West 2008 and was published in Asimov’s in April 2010. She can be found online at: www.pamrentz.com.

IFP: How did you become interested in writing Mythos/Lovecraftian stories?

PR: I’m …

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Movie · Reviews

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From Strange and Distant Shores: Godzilla Movie Marathon, Part Three

  • July 29, 2010

By Orrin Grey

Godzilla: Final Wars (2004)

Director: Ryuhei Kitamura Country: Japan

As I said before, while All Monsters Attack was intended to finish our list of Showa-era Godzilla films, we had planned to follow it up with a couple of movies from the Heisei era. Unfortunately, we weren’t able to get copies of a couple of the movies I’d planned to watch and with the shell-shock of Minilla fresh in our minds, we were unprepared to hold out in …

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Movie · Reviews

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Column: Cthulhu Eats the Movies: Re-Animator

  • July 29, 2010

By Brian M. Sammons

Re-Animator. Director: Stuart Gordon. Cast: Jeffrey Combs, Bruce Abbott, Barbara Crampton, David Gale.

Welcome back, my fellow cinecephalophiles. I figured it was about time we talked about a movie actually inspired by a H. P. Lovecraft tale. Yet oddly, it’s not very Lovecraftian. Yes, I know, by definition it must be Lovecraftian because Lovecraft wrote the original and yet, all the things most people think of when they think of “Lovecraftian” are not found in …

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Games · Reviews

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Lovecraftian Tarot Decks (Part 2)

  • July 28, 2010

By J. Keith Haney

Necronomicon Tarot. Donald Tyson and Anne Stokes. Llewellyn Press, 2007.

This deck is a follow-up to Donald Tyson’s Lovecraft-derived novels, Necronomicon and Alhazred. Tyson is a noted occultist who, to his great credit, acknowledges the fictional basis of Lovecraft’s creations while recognizing the primal power he may well have tapped in making them. Given that he has written about Lovecraft’s universe in a fictional format, a tarot deck was the next logical step. With …

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