Causes of Melancholy according to Robert Burton (“The Anatomy of Melancholy”, 1621)

• Original Sin

• Venison

• Anger

• Excessive Solitude

• Demons

• Standing Waters

• Banishment

• Cabbage

• Too much sex

Admittedly, being banished to a stagnant pond to have angry sex in the cabbage with a dead deer, while alone with your demons and original sin, doesn't exactly scream 'mental stability.' You can’t quite call it depression, but it’s certainly too much work to be considered idleness.

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This week on Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein we look at "In Memoriam" by Hazel Heald, and her letters in WEIRD TALES.

https://deepcuts.blog/2026/02/21/in-memoriam-1937-by-hazel-heald/

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Continuing our look at Lovecraftian memoirs by women with "Walkers in the City: George Willard Kirk and Howard Phillips Lovecraft in New York City, 1924-1926" (1993) by Mara Kirk Hart, whose father George Kirk was a member of the Kalem Club with Lovecraft.

https://deepcuts.blog/2026/02/07/walkers-in-the-city-george-willard-kirk-and-howard-phillips-lovecraft-in-new-york-city-1924-1926-1993-by-mara-kirk-hart/

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This week on Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein we continue our look at memoirs of HPL by women with "Memories of Lovecraft" (1969) two short memoirs by Sonia H. Davis & Helen V. Sully that ran in the ARKHAM COLLECTOR (WINTER 1969).

https://deepcuts.blog/2026/01/31/memories-of-lovecraft-1969-by-sonia-h-davis-helen-v-sully/

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Continuing our look at women's memoirs on Lovecraft with "Three Hours with H. P. Lovecraft" (1959) by Dorothy C. Walter, where we try to determine when and if it happened, and what all the printings of it leave out.

https://deepcuts.blog/2026/01/17/three-hours-with-h-p-lovecraft-1959-by-dorothy-c-walter/

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This week on Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein we look at "A Clicking in the Shadows" (2002) by Chad Hensley & W. H. Pugmire, and meditate on collaborations and cockroaches.

https://deepcuts.blog/2025/12/27/a-clicking-in-the-shadows-2002-by-chad-hensley-w-h-pugmire/

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'Twas the night before Xmas, and on Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein we seek to answer that thorny question: What does the Reanimator have to do with the holiday? Find out in "The Horror in the Stable" (2017) by R. C. Mulhare

https://deepcuts.blog/2025/12/24/the-horror-in-the-stable-2017-by-r-c-mulhare/

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This week on Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein we review "A Very Cthulhu Christmas" (2016) by Melissa McCann, and ruminate on Lovecraft and the Christmas Mythos.

https://deepcuts.blog/2025/12/20/a-very-cthulhu-christmas-2016-by-melissa-mccann/

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