ANDY HEDGECOCK is entertained by a playful novel that embeds a fictional game at its heart
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GABRIELE NEHER draws attention to an astoundingly skilled Flemish painter who defied the notion that women cannot paint like men
The Bard pays homage to Hull’s finest promoter and venue, and awards Douze Points to Laibach
KEVIN DONNELLY outlines how the bourgeois institutions inhibit our ability to to view art in revolutionary ways, and suggests some tactics to overturn it
HOWARD PHILLIPS LOVECRAFT had a wonderful gift for accessing that dark recess of the reader’s mind where atavistic foreboding lurks, nourishing it with scenarios of dread at the malignant and petrifying unknown, both in the physical world around us and our innermost presentiments.
Of the quartet of stories in the graphic volume Lovecraft, adapted and illustrated by INJ Culbard, The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath and The Case of Charles Dexter Ward are regarded as among his best.
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