Friday Fun: Let's all start fresh with a Lovecraftian new year's resolution!

Ok, I promise, this is the last Lovecraftian Friday Fun for a while. I double promise. It's also possible that I can't be trusted in this matter.

Anyways, to celebrate the the fresh possibilities of the new year, let's mosey on down to Tor.com and see how S.J. Chambers is doing -- a horror fan who's never read Lovecraft coming to his works for the first time! "The Alchemist" and "The Outsider" are up first.

I have a dark confession to make. For all my love of the Gothic and weird, for all the Stuart Gordon movies I've seen, and for all the issues of Weird Tales and Innsmouth Free Press I've perused, I have never read H.P. Lovecraft. Yes, I know, for shame! But I had a simple reason for avoiding him: power.

Check out her later posts:

Happy New Year everyone!

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