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Bobby Derie is an author and scholar of pulp studies and weird fiction. Pulp scholar. Author of SEX AND THE CTHULHU MYTHOS. He/him.

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Book Cover for: The Complete Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft, H. P. Lovecraft

The Complete Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft

H. P. Lovecraft
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That anyone still reads Lovecraft almost a century after his death is a testament to his endurance, even within a microgenre of a microgenre. Many much more popular writers of the period cannot say the same.

Hardcover, 2016

$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Tentacle, Rita Indiana

Tentacle

Rita Indiana
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This week on Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein we look at TENTACLE (2019) by Rita Indiana - and meditate on Lovecraft, environmental disaster, and time travel. https://t.co/ObTcB7EE1Z

Paperback, 2019

$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Of Human Bondage, W. Somerset Maugham

Of Human Bondage

W. Somerset Maugham
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"[...] and then the sage gave him the history of man in a single line; it was this: he was born, he suffered, and he died." - W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

Paperback, 2024

$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Going Postal, Terry Pratchett

Going Postal

Terry Pratchett
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"What sort of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? Apart from, say, the average voter." - Terry Pratchett, GOING POSTAL

Paperback, Mass Market, 2014

$9.99$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Call of Cthulhu, H. P. Lovecraft

The Call of Cthulhu

H. P. Lovecraft
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He called himself “psychically hypersensitive”, but the staid folk of the ancient commercial city dismissed him as merely “queer”. - H. P. Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"

Hardcover, 2019

$34.95$17.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett

Guards! Guards!

Terry Pratchett
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"If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn’t as cynical as real life." - Terry Pratchett, GUARDS! GUARDS!

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