Any Tierney fans?

[Ningauble]

In case you don't know it, The Drums of Chaos, starring both Simon of Gitta and Taggart the time-traveller, has finally been released. It's a Lovecraftian historical fantasy set in Roman time, and I expect it to be GREAT fun. I've been waiting for it since 1994.

 

[j d worthington]

Thanks for passing that one on... I've not been waiting quite that long, but only by a year or two....

Glad to hear about it, and will be looking this one up....

 

[Ningauble]

Wow! The Drums of Chaos appeared only a few weeks back, and already it seems as if Mythos Books have two more books out or on the way:

* Blasphemies & Revelations by Robert M. Price
Amazon.com: BLASPHEMIES & REVELATIONS: ROBERT M. PRICE: Books

* The Rise and Fall of the Cthulhu Mythos by S. T. Joshi
Amazon.com: THE RISE AND FALL OF THE CTHULHU MYTHOS: S.T. Joshi: Books

 

[j d worthington]

Unfortunately, I don't see any information on the Joshi on the page linked, save that it is unavailable (not published yet). Any ideas when this one is due out?

 

[Ningauble]

Unfortunately, I don't see any information on the Joshi on the page linked, save that it is unavailable (not published yet). Any ideas when this one is due out?

S. T. once mentioned that Dave Wynn intended to have it out in October (? I think it was), so it can't be too far off.

 

[Ningauble]

And it's out! Amazon has The Rise and Fall of the Cthulhu Mythos in stock:

Amazon.com: THE RISE AND FALL OF THE CTHULHU MYTHOS: S. T. JOSHI: Books

It looks very nice!

 

[w h pugmire esq]

Last year I decided to start rebuilding my Arkham House library, and one of the first books I obtain'd was Collected Poems -- Nightmares and Visions by Richard L. Tierney. I had read a number of his sonnets in a wonderful issue of Nyctalops, beautifully illustrated. I had not remember'd that ye Arkham booklet (it has vinyl covers, not hardcover boards) has drawings by the remarkable Jason Van Hollander, and they are exquisite. The poems are simply magnificent. Here is one that seems especially Lovecraftian:

The Garret-Room
The house was dark and old, and seemed to brood
Like some foul corpse long dead which yet lies dreaming
Of spectral gulfs and horrid night-lands teeming
With souls condemned to endless solitude.
Depressed, I strove to quell this morbid mood,
As though afraid to face its monstrous meaning,
When suddenly I spied a window gleaming
High-up, aloof, where no man might intrude.

What strange October dwelt behind those gables
In isolation from the world of men?
My wondering mind evolved fantastic fables,
But no solution could I find . . . and then,
I fled! -- yet not from any touch of sadness,
But from a monstrous peal of mirthful madness.

 

[j d worthington]

Yes, it's a wonderful collection; one of the very few I managed to hold onto when I had to let go of the bulk of my Arkham House collection nearly twenty years ago (I had all but a tiny handful from 1939-50; the majority of those from 1950-60; and at least two-thirds of everything they had published from that point on, including nearly the entire run of The Arkham Collector and several of the very limited pieces they did, such as Smith's Poems in Prose -- didn't have Drake's A Hornbook for Witches, though). Even my copies of Marginalia, Something About Cats, The Shuttered Room, and The Dark Brotherhood went. I hope to pick up the latter bit by bit, but the expense there may make it prohibitive....