Bobby D.

@ancienthistory
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Independent scholar. Pulp studies. Weirdfinder. Author of SEX & THE CTHULHU MYTHOS and WEIRD TALERS: ESSAYS ON ROBERT E. HOWARD & OTHERS. He/him.
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This Pride Month, Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein has invited guests to review classic works of gender transition and identity. This week, please enjoy:

In Defense Of Transgender Mermaids: George Sterling’s Strange Waters (1926) by Joe Koch

https://deepcuts.blog/2026/06/13/in-defense-of-transgender-mermaids-george-sterlings-strange-waters-1926-by-joe-koch/

#lgbtq #poetry #review #pridemonth

In Defense Of Transgender Mermaids: George Sterling’s Strange Waters (1926) by Joe Koch

Strange Waters is a narrative poem by George Sterling released in a small chapbook edition in 1926, the same year Sterling died by suicide. As his last published poem, the language is more economic…

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This Pride Month, Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein has invited guests to review classic works of gender transition and identity. This week, please enjoy:

“Teoquitla the Golden” (1924) by Ramon de las Cuevas: A Review by Luana Saitta

https://deepcuts.blog/2026/06/06/teoquitla-the-golden-1924-by-ramon-de-las-cuevas-a-review-by-luana-saitta/

#lgbtq #weirdtales #weirdfiction

“Teoquitla the Golden” (1924) by Ramon de las Cuevas: A Review by Luana Saitta

A hunched-over white man, limbs chained, is being led by two jaguar warriors brandishing war club and shield across a crowded square. Great Aztec idols survey the tableau of what is surely the prel…

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This week on Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein we review the CUNTESS EP (2025) by Necronomicunt.

https://deepcuts.blog/2026/05/30/cuntess-ep-2025-by-necronomicunt/

#music #lovecraft #lovecraftian #punk #deathmetal #sludge

Cuntess EP (2025) by Necronomicunt

[…] the lyrics for this song were written 19 years ago when the first face transplant was performed. It is about a serial killer who hates his face and makes a face of his own, sewn together …

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What is the first Lovecraft comic by a Black creator? It may be "H. P. Lovecraft's The Ter'ble Old Man" (1971) by Larry Fuller.

https://deepcuts.blog/2026/05/23/h-p-lovecrafts-the-terble-old-man-1971-by-larry-fuller/

#lovecraft #hpl #comic #comics #comix #undergroundcomix #blackcreators #blackhistory

“H. P. Lovecraft’s The Ter’ble Old Man” (1971) by Larry Fuller

We will probably never know who was the first Black creator to adapt Lovecraft to the medium of comics. Pre-Code Lovecraftian Horror Comics rarely credited their writers and artists; it is not…

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Robert E. Howard Foundation eBay listings.

These are the items from the collection of Barbara Barrett, a long-time member of the Foundation who passed away and bequeathed them. The auction goes to fund the necessary repairs to the Robert E. Howard House & Foundation.

https://www.ebay.com/usr/rehfoundation

#robertehoward #conan #lovecraft

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"Robert E. Howard as a Boy" (19 Jul 1936) by Elsie Burns was one of the few contemporary memoirs on the Texas pulpster by a woman. Long before he created Conan, he was just a boy and his dog.

https://deepcuts.blog/2026/05/16/robert-e-howard-as-a-boy-10-jul-1936-by-elsie-burns/

#robertehoward #REH #womeninhistory

“Robert E. Howard as a Boy” (10 Jul 1936) by Elsie Burns

When Robert E. Howard and his mother died in the small town of Cross Plains, Texas on 11 June 1936, it was a shock to the small community. It was also news. Jack Scott, the owner and editor of the …

Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein

This week on Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein we look at “The Fishmen of Innsmouth” 「インスマウスの半魚人」(1959) by H. P. Lovecraft & Shōgō Matsumiya (絵・松宮省吾), a Japanese localization and abridgement of "The Shadow over Innsmouth."

https://deepcuts.blog/2026/05/09/the-fishmen-of-innsmouth-%e3%80%8c%e3%82%a4%e3%83%b3%e3%82%b9%e3%83%9e%e3%82%a6%e3%82%b9%e3%81%ae%e5%8d%8a%e9%ad%9a%e4%ba%ba%e3%80%8d1959-by-h-p-lovecraft-shogo-matsumiya-%e7%b5%b5/

#lovecraft #HPL #weirdfiction #japanese #japan #nsfw

“The Fishmen of Innsmouth” 「インスマウスの半魚人」(1959) by H. P. Lovecraft & Shōgō Matsumiya (絵・松宮省吾)

Eldritch Fappenings This review deals with a work of erotic art and writing.As part of this review, selected images with depictions of nudity will be displayed.As such, please be advised before rea…

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This week on Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein we look at "Lovecraft's Daughter" (1983) by R. Alain Everts, and reflect on what was known - and not known - about HPL's stepdaughter and their relationship.

https://deepcuts.blog/2026/05/02/lovecrafts-daughter-1983-by-r-alain-everts/

#HPL #Lovecraft #womeninhistory

Lovecraft’s Daughter (1983) by R. Alain Everts

Imagine yourself in the United States of America, 1965. The children born of the baby boom in World War II are teenagers now. A television in nearly every home. The pulp magazines have been dead fo…

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This week on Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein we look at Winifred Virginia Jackson—Lovecraft's Lost Romance (1976) by R. Alain Everts & George T. Wetzel and reflect on the problems of research and depending too heavily on unreliable sources.

https://deepcuts.blog/2026/04/25/winifred-virginia-jackson-lovecrafts-lost-romance-1976-by-r-alain-everts-george-t-wetzel/

#womeninhistory #hpl #hplovecraft #lovecraft

Winifred Virginia Jackson—Lovecraft’s Lost Romance (1976) by R. Alain Everts & George T. Wetzel

Or had Lovecraft been casting sheep’s eyes upon some young woman whom he lacked the nerve to approach openly? Could it have been his fellow-amateur and ghosting client Winifred Virginia Jacks…

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The Weird Tales Murder Mystery! Cutting deeper than normal this week on Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein as we examine a double murder case in 1930s Texas in which a pulp magazine formed a vital clue.

https://deepcuts.blog/2026/04/18/deeper-cut-the-weird-tales-murder-mystery/

#weirdtales #truecrime #pulpfiction

Deeper Cut: The Weird Tales Murder Mystery

In the Detroit Evening Times for 16 Aug 1942 (and the The Standard-Times in New Bedford, Mass) is a sensational article by journalist Terry McShane: “The Case of the Oversized Footprint.&#822…

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