Cthulhu Concierge

   Mattel might redeem themselves with this Lovecraftian delight. Fun fact, (thanks Jason Colavito), Cthulhu was inspired by Tennyson's Kraken and the ancient alien cult by Lovecraft. Honestly Lovecraft hated everybody equally just like John Lennon. Hades, but I'd settle for Romulus. He doesn't have to have balls, just no teets. 

From The Cult of Alien Gods

  "The modern historian Jacques Barzun recognized why scientism as a major theme, and major flaw, in Western civilization, and he provided the clearest explanation of why it produced a profound disappointment and backlash like the one evident in horror tales:

The clue to the fallacy of scientism is this; geometry (in all senses of the word) is an abstraction from experience; it could not live without the work of the human mind on what it encounters in the world. Hence the realm of abstraction, useful and far from unreal, is thin and bare and poorer than the world it is drawn from. It is therefore an idle dream to think of someday getting along without direct dealings with what abstraction leaves untouched. "

  "The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear," Lovecraft began his essay," and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown."

Jason Colavito

 

"The Willows" by Algernon Blackwood / Proto-Cosmic Horror / 2025 Remaste...

  I have been sick to death all day in bed today. Have been wanting to read this. Going to fall out on the couch with Arthur and Frankie and listen. TTYL... 🌳🌳

From The Cult of Alien Gods

 

  "It seems that the core issue at stake in the horror story, like that in the debate over Atlantis and the other lost continents, is the isssue of science versus scientism. The former is a way of learning through experimentation, theorization, and testing. The latter is a dogmatic acceptance that what is known is all that can be known, and the accepted way of knowing is the only way to know. In a philosophical sense, horror tales seem to face a very postmodern struggle: the battle between positivism (scientism) and pure science. The authorities are powerless against the unseen forces because they cannot open their minds to investigate the possibility that the unseen can be real. As a result, institutional authority makes impotent pronouncements of impossibility instead of attempting to apply the methods of science to investigate. Like the heroes of Dracula, only those with open minds can take in all the evidence to supercede the ignorance of institutional science and vanquish the supernatural foe. True science, not scientism, wins the day but at the cost of admitting that there are other Things of which our philosophies cannot dream. Thus are the believers shown to be the true scientists, an appellation that the pseudoscientists of Atlantean or Lemurian persuasions very much wished to have for themselves."

Jason Colavito

Frankie's First Christmas Cookie & Necronomnomnom

  Frankie and I have been up all night baking. Shiner was my supervisor, but Frankie is worse. He eats about anything. He loves oysters and clams. We are using my Early American Cookbook this year. Christmas has been catproofed, so we're keeping it simple. We made simple butter cookies with a glaze: Yeti, Anne and Andy, unicorns, elephants, and ducks. I'd had one at Cornwall Furnace, a moose, and it was so good, better than mine. Cornwall has Christmas cookies, tea, and cocoa around their Christmas tree once a year. Next stop molasses and ginger snaps. My dear friend sent me Necronomnomnom, and I can hardly wait to get to that. Oh, my ghoul. I have a handmade Lovecraft doll and have yet to finish the complete works, which is huge. I've been sending offers out on Ebay for Collinwood, asking them to save it from the Leviathan, (Frankie). He's been checking into The Collins Port Inn for Christmas. Guess I have to move that too. 🌟