Tag Archives: H. P. Lovecraft

Ralph Adams Cram:
Wild Boy of American Architecture

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Ralph Adams Cram, 1863–1942

“We all understand that intriguing tribal rites are acted out beyond the groomed exteriors and purple-tinged bow windows of Louisburg Square, but except for what some literary, chosen-few Bostonians have divulged, we don’t know what these coded rituals are, and never will.” — Truman Capote, “Hidden Gardens” [1]

“Great cathedrals, such as colonial Spain built between Mexico City and Buenos Aires, have had little appeal to a people disparaging greatness and grandeur.” Read more …

Published: September 5, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Albert J. Nock, architecture, articles, Ayn Rand, James J. O'Meara, North American New Right, originals, Ralph Adams Cram, Rene Guénon, Traditionalism | Comments closed

Video of the Day
The Call of Cthulhu in Under 2 Minutes

Video of the Day

time: 2:00

Published: August 21, 2012 | Posted in video of the day | Also tagged The Call of Cthulhu, video of the day, videos | Comments closed

Remembering H. P. Lovecraft:
August 20, 1890–March 15, 1937

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Howard Phillips Lovecraft was born on August 20, 1890, in Providence, Rhode Island, and died there of cancer on March 15, 1937. An heir to Poe and Hawthorne, Lovecraft is one of the pioneers of modern science fiction, fantasy, and horror literature. Read more …

Published: August 20, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commemorations, Greg Johnson, literature, North American New Right, originals | Comments closed

The Influence of H. P. Lovecraft on Occultism

Kerry Bolton

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Lovecraft’s horror stories have become not just a literary cult like many others, but a tangible cult of the occult. The Cthulhu Mythos of the Old Gods with Unspeakable names are evoked and worshiped, and respected practitioners of the esoteric use the symbolism and mythos as the basis of a magical system. Read more …

Published: August 16, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Aleister Crowley, Anton LaVey, articles, Austin Osman Spare, chaos magic, Cthulhu, Cthulhu mythos, Esoteric Order of Dagon, Friedrich Nietzsche, Kenneth Grant, Kerry Bolton, magic, Michael Aquino, Michael Bertiaux, North American New Right, reprints, Satan, Satanism, Set, the Church of Satan, the occult | Comments closed

Artists of the Right: Resisting Decadence

Kerry Bolton

Kerry Bolton
Artists of the Right: Resisting Decadence
Edited by Greg Johnson
San Francisco: Counter-Currents, 2012
210 pages

hardcover: $35

paperback: $20

Published: June 18, 2012 | Posted in Counter-Currents title, literature, poetry | Also tagged art, Artists of the Right, Bolton book, D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Pound, fascism, Filippo Marinetti, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Henry Williamson, Kerry Bolton, Knut Hamsun, literature, National Socialism, poetry, Roy Campbell, W. B. Yeats, Wyndham Lewis | Comments closed

Interview with James J. O’Meara

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Editor’s Note:

Before beginning this interview, I knew very little about James J. O’Meara. Based simply on his writings, Read more …

Published: January 5, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alan Watts, Alisdair Clarke, drugs, Friedrich Nietzsche, Greg Johnson, Henry James, homosexuality, interviews, James J. O'Meara, John N. Deck, Julius Evola, literary criticism, male bonding, mysticism, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, religion, Rene Guénon, the Männerbund, Traditionalism | Comments closed

The Corner at the Center of the World:
Traditional Metaphysics in a Late Tale of Henry James

J. P. Morgan

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“The human individual is, at one and the same time, much more and much less than is ordinarily supposed in the West; he is greater by reason of his possibilities of indefinite extension beyond the corporeal modality, . . . but he is also much less since, far from constituting a complete and sufficient being in himself, he is only an exterior manifestation, a fleeting appearance clothing the true being, which in no way affects the essence of the latter in its immutability.” Read more …

Published: October 31, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Henry James, James J. O'Meara, literature, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, religion, Traditionalism | Comments closed

More on Henry James & H. P. Lovecraft
The Princess & the Maggot

Henry James, in a 1913 charcoal sketch by John Singer Sargent.

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Although apparently written back in 2008, long before I began writing about James and Lovecraft, I only recently stumbled across this quote from pioneer Lovecraft scholar S. T. Joshi, which might be said to encapsulate my concern in this series of articles:

The history of Lovecraft’s reputation—his initial rejection by Edmund Wilson and others as a pulp hack; the championing of his work by Derleth, Fritz Leiber, and George T. Wetzel; Read more …

Published: October 17, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Henry James, James & Lovecraft, James J. O'Meara, literature, New York City, North American New Right, reprints, the Jewish question, white racial consciousness | Comments closed

The Lovecraftian Art of Harold Arthur McNeill

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H. P. Lovecraft is not just an inspiration to writers but also to visual artists who wish to translate his uncanny and sometimes elusive descriptions into visible realities. Harold Arthur McNeill is one of my favorite Lovecraftian artists. This portfolio of his paintings, drawings, sculptures, graphics, and book-bindings will show you why. Read more …

Published: September 21, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged art, art criticism, articles, bookbinding, graphic design, Greg Johnson, Harold Arthur McNeill, North American New Right, originals, painting, sculpture | Comments closed

Labor Day Special!
They Live

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“He Writes! You Read!”

Jonathan Lethem
They Live
Soft Skull Press, 2010

Constant readers will know that I not infrequently make use of images or lines from John Carpenter’s schlock-cult classic They Live. Read more …

Published: September 5, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, James J. O'Meara, John Carpenter, Jonathan Lethem, movie reviews, North American New Right, reprints, the Jewish question, They Live | Comments closed

The Paintings of Harold Arthur McNeill

Harold Arthur McNeill and his familiar Tharsis

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Harold Arthur McNeill, born February 15th 1960, is an artist, poet, designer, and bookbinder living in Seattle. I first encountered his work in 2002 on the cover of the limited hardcover edition of Julius Evola’s Men Among the Ruins (Waterbury Center, Vt.: Dominion Press, 2002). I have used a number of his mordant and funny graphics at Counter-Currents. (See the “You may also like . . .” links at the bottom of this page. Click here to view his Facebook graphics gallery.) Read more …

Published: September 2, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged art, art criticism, articles, Greg Johnson, Harold Arthur McNeill, North American New Right, originals, painting | Comments closed

Remembering H. P. Lovecraft:
August 20, 1890–March 15, 1937

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Published: August 20, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commemorations, Greg Johnson, literature, North American New Right, originals | Comments closed

H. P. Lovecraft: Árijský mystik

Jonathan Bowden

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Publikováno na počest stodvacátého výročí narození H. P. Lovecrafta (20. srpna 2010).

English original here

“Homo homini lupus: Člověk člověku vlkem.” – Plautus

Howard Phillips Lovecraft se narodil v Providence na Rhode Island v roce 1890. Read more …

Published: June 16, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, in Czech, in translation, Jonathan Bowden, literature, reprints, the occult | Comments closed

Lovecraft a politika

Kerry Bolton

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English original here

Lovecraft je znám zasvěceným čtenářům především mýtem Cthulhu a doprovodným obludáriem, méně pak svými dopisy přátelům, jichž napsal mnohem víc než svých okultních povídek, a ještě méně toho víme o jeho soukromých politických názorech a náhledech na společnost. Read more …

Published: May 6, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, fascism, Friedrich Nietzsche, in Czech, in translation, Kerry Bolton, literature, North American New Right, originals, Oswald Spengler | Comments closed

Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown

Trevor Lynch

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In any poll of Counter-Currents readers, H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937) would surely rank high among fiction writers. Thus Lovecraft is a regular feature in these pages. Read more …

Published: March 28, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged documentaries, immigration, literature, miscegenation, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals, race-mixing, the Jewish question, Trevor Lynch | Comments closed

James O’Meara on Henry James & H. P. Lovecraft
The Lesson of the Monster; or, The Great, Good Thing on the Doorstep

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The Annunciation by Simone Martini, 1333

We’ve been very pleased by the response to our essay “The Eldritch Evola,” which was not only picked up by Greg Johnson (whose own Confessions of a Reluctant Hater is out and essential reading) for his estimable website Counter-Currents, but even managed to lurch upwards and lay a terrible, green claw on the bottom rung of the “Top Ten Most Visited Posts” there in January.

Published: February 21, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Henry James, horror, James & Lovecraft, James O'Meara, Julius Evola, literature, Oswald Spengler, Rene Guénon, Traditionalism | Comments closed

The Eldritch Evola

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And thus, as a closer and still closer intimacy admitted me more unreservedly into the recesses of his spirit, the more bitterly did I perceive the futility of all attempt at cheering a mind from which darkness, as if an inherent positive quality, poured forth upon all objects of the moral and physical universe, in one unceasing radiation of gloom. — E. A. Poe, “The Fall of the House of Usher”

Published: January 23, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, cyclical history, horror fiction, James & Lovecraft, James J. O'Meara, Julius Evola, literature, North American New Right, on Evola, religion, Rene Guénon, reprints, Traditionalism | Comments closed

Polaris

H. P. Lovecraft

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Into the north window of my chamber glows the Pole Star with uncanny light. All through the long hellish hours of blackness it shines there. And in the autumn of the year, when the winds from the north curse and whine, and the red-leaved trees of the swamp mutter things to one another in the small hours of the morning under the horned waning moon, I sit by the casement and watch that star. Read more …

Published: October 4, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged fiction, Hyperborea, literature, North American New Right, reprints | Comments closed