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Abandoned sites are found in (former) industrial areas, as highlighted in the post on the Monteponi mine in Sardinia and as photographed by Bernd and Hilla Becher, who are famous for their photographs of industrial buildings, or in cities, as highlighted in a previous post about Abandoned London Underground Stations.
And even Antarctica, although sparsely populated, [...]

The blog Grim Reviews draws attention to a new interview with horror writer Thomas Ligotti, one of the most important writers of bleak fiction since Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft. In this interview, Ligotti talks about his upcoming book The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Short Life of Horror. In this book, the [...]

BLDGBLOG reports on Mysterious Chinese Tunnels:
“Zimmerman claims that “mysterious” tunnels honeycombed the ground beneath the city of Tacoma, Washington…It’s like a geography purpose-built for H.P. Lovecraft, or something straight out of the work of Jeff VanderMeer: down in the foundations of your city is a mysterious network of rooms, excavated by another race, through which [...]

In “Heritage of Horror,” Lovecraft scholar S.T. Joshi writes that Lovecraft’s short story “Cool Air” “anticipates cryogenic research.” We can forgive Joshi the common mistake of writing “cryogenics” when he means “cryonics,” but how much cryonics is there really in Lovecraft’s “Cool Air?”
“Cool Air” (1926) tells the story of a struggling writer who has secured [...]

H.P. Lovecraft’s Herbert West is a man of science, not superstition. Following Ernst Haeckel, he believes that “all life is a chemical and psychical process,” that the soul is “a myth,” and that “unless actual decomposition has set in, a corpse fully equipped with organs may with suitable measures be set going again [...]