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LOVECRAFT
CENTENNIAL
CONFERENCE
The
John
Hay
Library.
Brown
University
Providence.
Rhode
Island
11=19
August
1990
To
mark
H.
P.
Lovecraft's
centennial
on
20
August
1990,
Hay
Library
proudly
announces
a
series
of
events,
free
of
charge,
and
aimed
at
as
wide
an
audience
as
possible,
in
honor
of
the
great
Providence,
Rhode
Island,
author
John
presented
the
of
horror
and
fantasy.
still
While
features
a
in
the
series
early
planning
stages,
the
program
already
of
panels
boasting
premier
Lovecraft
experts
around
the
world,
a
major
exhibition
of
Lovecraft
manu-
scripts,
books,
and
associated
items,
an
art
exhibit
by
top
art-
ists
featuring
works
influenced
by
Lovecraft.
as
well
as
walking
tours
hosted
by
Henry
L. P.
Beckwith,
author
of
Lovecraft's
Providence
(Donald
M.
Grant,
1986).
from
The
John
Hay
Library
is
the
most
appropriate
sponsor
of
these centennial
events,
as
it
holds
the
largest
collection
in
the
world
of
Lovecraft's
manuscripts
and
printed
works.
Inexpensive
dormitory
rooms
on
the
beautiful
Brown
Univer-
sity
campus
will
be
available
to
those
attending
for
a
nominal
fee
of
approximately
$25-30.
In
order
to
better
prepare
the
program,
estimate
atten-
dance,
and
also
create
a
mailing
list
for
updates,
we'd
like to
Further
information
about
hear
from
all
interested
in
attending.
registration
and
room
reservations
will
be
mailed
in
the
coming
months.
Please
send
all
inguiries
care
of
Necronomicon
Press,
Lockwood
Street.
West
Warwick,
Rhode
Island
02893,
USA.
101
CRYPT
OF
CTHULHU
A
Pulp
Volume
9,
Thriller
and
Theological
Journal
Number
1
Hallowmas
1989
CONTENTS
Editorial
Shards
2
The
Prodigy
of
Dreams
By Thomas
Ligotti
Allan
and
Adelaide—
3
An
Arabesque
Dead
10
By
Thomas
Ghost
Stories
Ligotti
for
the
Ligotti
18
By
Thomas
Studies
in
Horror
Ligotti
21
By
Thomas
Order
of
Illusion
Ligotti
33
By
Thomas
By Thomas
Charnelhouse
of
the
Moon
Ligotti
35
Ten
Steps
to
Thin
Mountain
By
Thomas
Ligotti
Selections
of
Lovecraft
37
38
By
Thomas
Ligotti
The
Consolations
of
Horror
By
Thomas
Ligotti
R'lyeh
Review
Mail-Call
of
Cthulhu
42
50
53
1
2
/
Crypt
of
Cthulhu
Debatable
and
Disturbing:
EDITORIAL
SHARDS
In
Lin
Carter's
last
letter
to
this
magazine,
he
waxed
enthusiastic
about
Thomas
Ligotti's
"Vastarien"
and
"The
Mystics
of
Muelenherg."
capacities
as
anthologist
and
editor
of
the
famous
Adult
Fan-
tasy Series
had
a
sharp
eye
for
new
Lin
in
his
one
senses
in
Lin's
he
saw
in
Ligotti
a
he
rather
wished
he
could
have
claimed
the
credit
for
discovering.
What
he
said
was,
"This
Ligotti
chap
astonishes
me.
Seems
like
he
came
out
of
nowhere
just
recently
and
is
already
an
ac-
complished
master,
as
far
as
I'm
concerned.
His
subtlety
of
effect,
control
of
mood
and
atmosphere,
and
sheer
power
of
eerie
suqge
stiveness
would
have
delighted
Lovecraft
him-
talent,
and
and
never
had
a
chance
to
it.
But
really
any
Ligotti
tale
microcosm
of
his
whole
ouvre
Tom
Ligotti
combines
the
traits
of
unbounded
macabre
imagination
with
fluence
and
prolificity.
Every-
where
one
turns,
at
least
in
the
small
press,
one
sees
his
work.
died
read
is
a
.
praises
that
Despite
occasional
forays
into
the
unique
talent
mass-market
universe
(inclusions
in
Salmonson
[ed.|
H
eroic
Visions
II
and
Winter
led.)
Prime
Evil
),
Li-
gotti
small
content
to
write
for
the
is
circle
of
lovers
of
the
classical
horror
tradition.
He
will
not
accom-
modate
himself
to
the
style
or
sub-
jects
of
modern
"Dark
Fantasy,"
nor
will
he
compromise
his
artistry
by
working
in
novel
length,
too
clumsy
and
blunt
an
instrument
with
which
to
work
his
intricate
sorceries.
And
in
this
uncompro-
mising
this
"weird
for
attitude,
weird's
sake"
aesthetic
integrity,
Ligotti
is
at
least
as
truly
Love
craftian
as
he
is
in
mood and
style.
Most
of
the
"Studies
in
Horror"
are
new
to
this
collection,
but
all
the
rest
of
the
items
assembled
here
are
taken
from
various
now-unob
tainable
small
press
magazines.
(If
you
want
to
know
which
ones,
we
suggest
you
consult
the
bibliogra-
phy
provided
in
the
excellent
Li-
Most
of
the
gotti
issue
of
Daqon
,
self,
who
admired
that
sort
of
thing
but
couldn't
do
it
any more
than
can.
Suggest
you
spin
off
another
Crypti
c
sibling:
Ligotti
Tale
s,
and
put
together
everything
he's
pub-
lished
so
far.
He
is
a
marvel!"
Not
a
bad
idea.
Uncle
Lin,
not
a
bad
idea!
Thus
this
68th
issue
of
Crypt
of
Cth
u
lhu
collects
various
stray
Ligotti tales
not collected
in
the
Silver
Scarab
Press
scarce
Songs
of
a
Dead
D
reame
r,
an ex
panded
edition of
which
is
to
ap
pear
from
The
Weird
T
ales
Library
Ligotti
is
all
that
Lin
said
above.
Lin,
by
the
way,
saw
only
the
Ligotti
stories
published
in
Crypt
and
perhaps
a
couple
of
others.
He
received
Songs
of
a
Dead
Dreamer
in
the
hospital
only
days
before
he
.
I
,
however,
have
been
somewhat
touched
up
by
the
author
for
their
appearance
here.
tales,
Robert
M.
Price,
Editor
Hallowmas
1989
/
3
THE
PRODIGY
OF
DREAMS
By
Thomas
.
Ligotti
conceived
my
ideal
leavetaking
from
this
earth
—
a
drama
prepared
by
strange
portents,
swiftly
de-
veloped
by
dreams
and
visions
nurtured
in
an
atmos-
phere
of
sublime
dread,
growing
overnight
like
some
.
I
gaudy
fungus
in
a
forgotten
cellar.
of
.
.
.
-The
Travel
Diaries
It
seemed
to
Arthur
Emerson
that
the
swans,
those
perennial
guests
of
the
estate,
had
somehow
become
strange.
Yet
knowledge
of
his
their
natural
behavior
was
vague,
providing
him
with
little
idea
of
Arthur
Emerson
how
they
had
departed
from
this
behavior.
But
he
strong-
ly
sensed
that
there
had
indeed
been
such
a
departure,
an imper-
ceptible
drifting
into
the
peculiar.
which
Suddenly
these creatures,
had
become
as
tedious
to
him
as
everything
else,
filled
him
with
an
astonishment
he
had
not
known
in
many
years.
That
morning
they
were
gathered
at
the
center
of
the
lake,
barely
visible
within
a
milky
haze
which
hovered
above
still
waters.
For
as
long
as
he
observed
them,
they
did
not
allow
themselves
the
slightest
toward
the
grassy
shores
motion
Each
of
them
—
circling
the
lake.
there
were
four—
faced
a
separate
direction,
as
though
some
antagon
their
order.
existed
within
ism
Then
their
sleek,
ghostly
forms
re-
volved
with
a
mechanical
ease
and
came
to
huddle
around
an
imaginary
For
a
moment
their
point
of
focus.
heads
nodded
slightly
toward
one
another,
bowing
in
wordless
prayer;
but
soon
they
stretched
their
snak-
ing
necks
in
unison,
elevated
their
orange
and
black
bills
toward
the
precisely
thick
mist
above,
and
gazed
into
its
There
followed
a
series
of
depths.
haunting
cries
unlike
anything
ever
heard
on
the
vast
grounds
of that
isolated
estate.
the
tall
windows
which
faced
the
lake,
he
made
a
mental
note
to
have
Graff
go
down
there
and
find
out
Possibly
some
un-
what
he
could.
welcome
animal
was
now
living
in
And
as
the
dense
woods
nearby.
he
further
considered
the
matter,
at
appeared
that
the
numerous
wild
it
ducks,
those
brownish
goblins
that
were
always
either
visible
or
audi-
ble
somewhere
in
the
vicinity
of
the
lake,
had
already
vacated
the
area.
perhaps
they
were
only
ob-
scured
by
the
unusually
heavy
mist
Or
of
that
peculiar
morning.
Arthur
Emerson
spent
most
of
the
morning
and
afternoon
in
the
library.
At
intervals
he
was
visited
by
a
very
black
cat.
an
aloof
and
somewhat
phantasmal
member
of
the
Eventual-
small
Emerson
household.
ly
it
fell
asleep
on
a
sunny
window
while
its
master
wandered
ledge,
among
the
countless
uncatalogued
volumes
he
had
accumulated
over
the
past
fifty
years
or
so.
During
his
childhood,
the
collec-
tion
which
filled
the
library's
dark
shelves
much
destroyed
common
one,
and
a
he
had
given
away
or
order
to
provide
room
Fie
was
the
only
for
other
works.
scholar
in
a
lengthy
succession
of
businessmen
of
one
kind
or
another,
the
last
living
member
of
the
old
the
estate
his
death,
family;
at
would
probably
pass
into
the
hands
was
it
of
in
of
distant
relative
whose
name
a
and
face
he
did
not
know.
But
this
was
not
of
any
great
concern
to
Arthur
Emerson:
resignation
to
his
Arthur
Emerson
now
wondered
if
something
he
could
not
see
was
As
he
stood
disturbing
the
swans.
own
of
inconsequence,
along
with
that
all
things
of
the
earth,
was
a
nurtured
philosophy
he
had
for

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