A quick note before bed....

[oneirophrenia]

Let me tell you, driving home from Pittsburgh on big, ol' empty Route 43 at 1:30 am on a Sunday night, listening to Oneiroid Psychosis' Dreams (With Pollutions When Virile) is a seriously, seriously creepy experience. Lone car...middle of the night...middle of the nowhere, surrounded in the dark beyond the acrid halogen streetlamps by all manner of sparkly lights and random stars...listening to an 8-minute song that ends on the note "You're starting to die, and so am I"...CREEPY. Period.

Much to tell, later...but that's all I've the energy to scribble out before my forehead hits the keyboard and cartoon Z's begin to bubble up about my head.

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[oneirophrenia.livejournal.com]

1) I have TONS of criticism on all of the above. Over the next few days, I will glance through it and see if I can find any particularly apropos works that you could benefit from--but one immediately comes to mind: _H. P. Lovecraft: Six Decades of Criticism_, edited by standard HPL scholar S. T. Joshi. A wonderful work that compiles almost every one of the most seminal pieces dealing with Lovecraft and his inspirations, including Fritz Leiber's excellent piece, "A Literary Copernicus"--which alone would be a great help to you in that it delineates a great deal of Lovecraft's inspirations and the like. Also, DEFINITELY see HPL's own _Supernatural Horror in Literature_, which is quite literally the Man Himself's very own accounting of many of his favorite stories in the context of a history of "weird" or supernatural fiction. Most excellent.

2) Send me and the other Nyarlathotep cronies some questions and we'll get right on it!

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[ex-wolff493.livejournal.com]

Wow. You are my HERO! Whenever you have some spare time, would you mind listing some of the other criticism? I'll check out those books right away, and have you heard anything about the -Lovecraft Studies- journal?
Maybe I'll just send you my "thesis prospectus" so you know what I'm looking for, if that isn't a problem.
Yay! I'm so glad there is actually Lovecraftian stuff out there! *dances with glee*
I'll email you the interview questions in a few days. Thanks!