They also say that I bring back the past

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My poems "Settling Accounts" and "Trying for It," otherwise known as the poem I wrote for asakiyume on the spring full moon of Nisan and the poem I wrote for Thomas Andrews on the centenary of the Titanic, have been accepted by The Revelator, where my Lovecraft poem "Being Providence" has already found a home. I hadn't intended for them to be published as a sort of gerund triptych, but I'm really not going to complain now that it's happening. The editors suggest a new poetic form: the tri-Taaffe. I should let them collage all my work.

Discovered last night: John Coulthart's "S. Latitude 47° 9', W. Longitude 126° 43'." I really want a print. I wonder if I can get it without buying the calendar. Apparently I should read more William Hope Hodgson.

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Well done! This is turning out to be your season.

Thank you!

Have you read Couthart's graphic version of The Call? Awesome.

All right; it's on the list! The HPLHS film was my first encounter with any adaptation, actually.

Also, what Hodgson have you read?

The House on the Borderland (thanks to rushthatspeaks) and The Night Land. I have the impression I'd really like the Carnacki the Ghost-Finder stories, but I've never found them all in one place and I'd rather not read entire books off a screen if I can help it. I just didn't remember that many tentacles!

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9781840225297 is an ISBN of a currently-available edition of The Casebook of Carnacki the Ghost Finder, which has all nine of Hodgson's Carnacki stories, and appears to be an inexpensive paperback -- Amazon has it for $7 and there are used copies (although of course with the shipping they're only going down to $4.99 right now :P ). It's also findable through Indiebound.com, of course -- I just used Amazon to actually look at the table of contents.

Also, as part of the Stone Telling team, I protest this notion of letting another venue do anything at all with all of your poems! :P

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a currently-available edition of The Casebook of Carnacki the Ghost Finder, which has all nine of Hodgson's Carnacki stories, and appears to be an inexpensive paperback

That is very useful to know. And it doesn't look like a bad edition, either. Thank you!

(Wait, how did I miss he was killed at Ypres in World War I? I wonder if I was mentally confusing him with David Lindsay, who died in the next war. This is like finding out this afternoon that Thomas Tryon—whom I associate with B-movies like I Married a Monster from Outer Space (1958)—is in fact best-known as a novelist. Thank you, brain. Someday you will store information helpfully and everyone will be surprised.)

Also, as part of the Stone Telling team, I protest this notion of letting another venue do anything at all with all of your poems!

Heh. I didn't give them exclusive publication, just first refusal rights on mash-ups!

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I'd recommend Boats of the Glen Carrig to you, especially given your love of the sea.

I'm very mixed about The Night Land. On the one hand it's badly written dreck, but the premise is pretty damn awe-inspiring. Hodgson was pen-friends with Wells and I can't help wondering if the dying Earth scenes in Time Machine influenced W. H.

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I'd recommend Boats of the Glen Carrig to you, especially given your love of the sea.

It does look like it has tentacles.

I'm very mixed about The Night Land. On the one hand it's badly written dreck, but the premise is pretty damn awe-inspiring.

It's such a weird book. Far-future alien is an almost impossible genre to do well: even Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun is a lot less strange conceptually than in its language. I haven't read The Night Land since college, but I remember it being full of really impressive WTF. And, yes. It's writing on geologic time.

Hodgson was pen-friends with Wells and I can't help wondering if the dying Earth scenes in Time Machine influenced W. H.

If so, major points for outweirding his influences.