Scary Books, Kiddies!
Fungi from Yuggoth and Other Poems. By HP Lovecraft. Ballantine, 1971. Cover art by Gervasio Gallardo. Formerly titled Collected Poems. Copyright 1963 by Arkham House.
What can I say? If you like ol’ Aich-Pee Ell, you may like his poems. Of course, there’s the sonnet cycle after which the book is named, but plenty of other brief riffs, most of them belaboring under that 18th-century affectation so dear to the Old Man’s heart.
Speaking of
that organ’s equilibrium ... he might have been scandalized by the mammacious
lizard woman on the back cover!
See you on Monday, with a brand-new music comp, chillun!
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