#c.l. moore

[bookmaven]

JUDGEMENT NIGHT by C.L. Moore (New York: Gnome Press, ) Cover art by Frank Kelly Freas.

Astounding Science-Fiction v31 #6, August 1943 edited by John W. Campbell, Jr. Cover by William Timmins

JUDGEMENT NIGHT by C.L. Moore. Illustrated by A. Williams [Part 1 of 2]

“The Mutant’s Brother” by Fritz Leiber, Jr. Illustrated by F. Kramer

“One-Way Trip” by Anthony Boucher. Illustrated by Kolliker

“Endowment Policy” by Lewis Padgett. Illustrated by Hall

“M 33 in Andromeda” by A.E. van Vogt. Illustrated by A. Williams [Beagle]

“When Is When?” by Malcolm Jameson. Illustrated by F. Kramer [Anachron, Inc.]

(New York: Popular Library, 1965) Cover artist unknown. // [aka LA NUIT DU JUGEMENT] (Paris: J’ai Lu, 1966) Cover art by Wojtek Siudmak.

[cosmosrebellion]

Got myself some new books!!

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

C.L. Moore - Black God's Shadow - Donald M. Grant - 1977 (cover illustration by Alicia Austin)

[ladythatsmyskull]

Chessboard Planet (1956) by Lewis Padgett (aka Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore). Cover art by Ed Emshwiller.

[fictionz]

New Horror 2023 - Day 16

"There was something in me that was—was simply gibbering with delight."

"Shambleau" by C.L. Moore (1933)

Thrills indeed. This guy was down to get familiar, but it turns out that's not such a great idea. Lots of great detail in describing their liaison, too.

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"Really, no one can get enough."

"Dental Plan" by Joy San (2019)

Whoa, that's a creepy story. I like when you're not quite sure what the thing is, but it sure is a thing.

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"Like all of you, she dreamed that one day a lover would come and claim her."

A Night to Dismember (The Lost Version) dir. Doris Wishman (1979)

I didn't realize it until I sat down to try and watch this, but there's a released version of this movie from the eighties which ended up on VHS and is one of those so bad ya gotta see it sorta movies, evidently caused by numerous production woes and years of editing. The original 1979 version was lost to time until it was rediscovered on a VHS tape and uploaded to YouTube in 2018 as you see it here. I watched the first few minutes of the original release and it's such a different movie that they need to be categorized separately. This lost version is... fine. Low budget and jumpy editing, but it feels like a much more coherent slasher movie than what I was seeing in the original release.

[joncronshawauthor]

33 Must-Read Sword and Sorcery Books for Adventure Seekers

If you’re partial to a spot of swashbuckling, a dash of dark magic, and a generous helping of gritty heroism, then you’ve probably dipped your toes into the tempestuous seas of sword and sorcery. You might even have a favourite battered paperback, its spine creased from countless re-reads, tucked away somewhere safe. This genre of fantasy, oft-clad in a loincloth and waving a sizeable chunk of…

[rastronomicals]

5:04 PM EST November 9, 2023:

Blöödhag - "Henry Kuttner And C.L. Moore" From the Book and CD set Mecca|Mettle (January 2005)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

File under:    Death Metal about science fiction writers

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[vavuska]

One of the most ridiculous things about Joanne Rowling’s grotesque hounding of trans people is that she shamelessly pretends to be a man - and a war veteran - to sell books.

People should also understand what that name is.

Robert Gailbraith.

This is not a "made up" name.

The real Robert Gailbraith Heath was a psychiatrist, a prolific homophobe and transphobe who believed in, and conducted, shock conversion therapy and made unethical experiments with various kinds of drugs on black and minorities prisoners of Louisiana detention centers.

It is not a coincidence she took this name.

Here’s a little fuel for the fire:

‘It is awfully close to Robert Galbraith Heath, a conversion therapist who pioneered the since-discredited use of shock treatments to “cure” homosexuality.’

And lest we forget, her pen name "J. K. Rowling" is deliberately gender-neutral, because in the early days, she received advice that woman authors didn't sell as well, so she decided to use "J. K. Rowling" as publishing name. The purpuse was hiding the fact she was a woman to boys, who were the primary marketing target. J. K. Rowling said that was her editors' idea, because they believed that young boys – their target audience – would not want to read a book written by a woman, but Bloomsbury never confirmed.

I can understand the point of hiding yourself under a pen name and a lot of other women in fantasy did the same (N.K. Jemisin, C.J. Cherryh, C.L. Moore, etc.), but this is not a good faith argument. It is actually wild to me that successful female fantasy authors are being COMPLETELY DISREGARDED by J. K. Rowling's story. What about Ursula K. LeGuin, Patricia McKillip, Robin Hobin, Anne McCaffrey, Lois McMaster Bujold, Mercedes Lackey, Andre Norton, Judith Merkle Riley, Tanith Lee, Jen Lyons, Jenn Williams, etc? Does their work just not count?

Those women are greater authors and writers than J. K. Rowling could have ever been and she disrespected them with this story probably made up to gain sympathy - Edinburgh people says that all her background story has been exaggerated for marketing purposes, but I can't say anything about it.

And also, as Threads user no7sammy, wrote:

Mad ironic that JK Rowling could have devised any sport she liked in her fictional wizarding world, but chose Quidditch: a highly volatile, full contact, mixed gender sport. She even wrote in how the players shared mixed gender changing rooms.

She doesn't like me pointing this shit out and has my blocked on literally every platform...

Jeff on J. K. Rowling and misogyny

[punkscully]

reading log | 2025

1. jirel of joiry -> c.l. moore (sep 17 - jan 3)

2. the six deaths of the saint -> alix e. harrow (jan 4-5)

3. this will be funny someday -> katie henry (dec 13 - jan 8)

4. the garden -> tomi adeyemi (jan 9)

5. persephone -> lev grossman (jan 20 - 21)

6. what the dead know -> nghi vo (jan 21 - 23)

7. undercover -> tamsyn muir (jan 23 - jan 25)

8. the candles are burning -> veronica henry (jan 26 - 27)

9. out of the mirror, darkness -> garth nix (jan 28 - 29)

10. everything i know about love -> dolly alderton (jan 18 - feb 6)

11. the chromatic fantasy -> h.a. [DNF]

12. jirel and the mirror of truth -> molly tanzer (feb 12 - 24)

13. mammoth -> eva baltasar (feb 24 - march 5)

14. we do what we do in the dark -> michelle hart (march 5 - 12)

15. evidence of the affair -> taylor jenkins reid (march 12)

16. on fairy-stories -> j.r.r. tolkien (march 12 - 18)

17. universality -> natasha brown (march 13 - 26)

18. the knight and the butcherbird -> alix e. harrow (march 23 - 24)

19. i like to watch: arguing my way through the tv revolution -> emily nussbaum (jan 7 - mar 28)

20. as old as time -> liz braswell (mar 28 - apr 14)

21. dress rehearsals -> madison godfrey (apr 15 - 19)

22. the stranger -> albert camus (apr 1 - 24)

23. a midsummer night’s dream -> william shakespeare (apr 17 - 26)

24. create dangeously: the power and responsibility of the artist -> albert camus (apr 29)

25. we could be rats -> emily austin (may 3 - 16)

[battyaboutbooksreviews]

🌈 Queer Books Coming Out in April 2024 🌈

🌈 Good morning, my bookish bats! Struggling to keep up with all the amazing queer books coming out this month? Here are a FEW of the stunning, diverse queer books you can add to your TBR before the year is over. Remember to #readqueerallyear! Happy reading!

[ Release dates may have changed. ]

❤️ Spring on the Peninsula - Ery Shin 🧡 When I Arrived at the Castle - Emily Carroll 💛 Bloodline - Jenn Alexander 💚 Grey Dog - Elliott Gish 💙 Every Time You Hear That Song - Jenna Voris 💜 I'm in Love with the Villainess v. 2 - Inori and Hanagata ❤️ The Caravaggio Syndrome - Alessandro Giardino 🧡 Leather, Lace, and Locs - Anne Shade 💛 Firebugs - Nico Bulling 💙 I Married My Female Friend v.2 - Shio Usui 💜 The Final Curse of Ophelia Cray - Christine Calella 🌈 A Sweet Sting of Salt - Rose Sutherland ❤️ The Selected Shepherd: Poems - Reginald Shepherd 🧡 Rough Trade - Katrina Carrasco 💛 Aubrey McFadden is Never Getting Married - Georgia Beers 💚 Taming of a Rebel - Eada Friesian 💙 Dayspring - Anthony Oliveira 💜 The Titanic Survivors Book Club - Timothy Schaffert ❤️ Orphia And Eurydicius - Elyse John 🧡 The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers - Samuel Burr 💛 A Good Happy Girl - Marissa Higgins 💙 Winnie Nash Is Not Your Sunshine - Nicole Melleby 💜 Here We Go Again - Alison Cochrun 🌈 Women! In! Peril! - Jessie Ren Marshall

❤️ Blood City Rollers - V. P. Anderson and Tatiana Hill 🧡 The Prospects - KT Hoffman 💛 Crazy Like a Fox: Adventures in Schizophrenia - Christi Furnas 💚 WATCHNIGHT - Cyree Jarelle Johnson 💙 Love From The Sidelines - Tuesday Harper 💜 The Pleasure in Pain - Roxie Voorhees ❤️ Mal - Perla Zul 🧡 The Black Girl Survives in This One - Desiree S. Evans and Saraciea J. Fennell 💛 Darker by Four - June C.L. Tan 💙 Otherworldly - F.T. Lukens 💜 Hearts Still Beating - Brooke Archer 🌈 Tryst Six Venom - Penelope Douglas

❤️ Teenage Dirtbags - James Acker 🧡 The Heart Wants What It Wants - D.M. Batten 💛 Something Kindred by Ciera Burch 💚 Sheine Lende - Dr. Darcie Little Badger & Rovina Cai 💙 Rainbow Overalls - Maggie Fortuna 💜 Flowers for Dead Girls - Abigail Collins ❤️ Canto Contigo - Jonny Garza Villa

❤️ Court of Wanderers - Rin Chupeco 🧡 Molten Death - Leslie Karst 💛 Triad Magic - ‘Nathan Burgoine 💚 You, Me and Bad Movies - Twoony 💙 The Faithful Dark - Cate Baumer 💜 A Case for Discretion - Ashley Moore ❤️ Party of Fools - Cedar McCloud 🧡 The Last Love Song - Kalie Holford 💛 This is Me Trying - Racquel Marie 💙 Dear Wendy - Ann Zhao 💜 Sun Eater - Dre Levant 🌈 The Breakup Lists - Adib Khorram

❤️ Bad Dream - Nicole Maines & Rye Hickman 🧡 If We Were Stars - Eule Grey 💛 The Broken Lines of Us - Shia Woods 💚 Eye of the Ouroboros - Megan Bontrager �� Henry Henry - Allen Bratton 💜 Dear Bi Men - JR Yussuf ❤️ Paige Not Found - Jen Wilde 🧡 Mechanic Shop Femme’s Guide to Car Ownership - Chaya Milchtein 💛 Wide Awake Now - David Levithan 💙 Merciless Saviors - H.E. Edgmon 💜 Smile and Be a Villain - Yves Donlon 🌈 Crash Landing - Charmaine Anne Li

❤️ Call Forth a Fox - Markelle Grabo 🧡 Central Avenue Poetry Prize 2024 - Beau Adler 💛 Good Bones - Aurora Rey 💚 Curiosities - Anne Fleming 💙 Someone You Can Build a Nest in - John Wiswell 💜 Revisiting Summer Nights - Ashley Bartlett ❤️ Bright Spring - Emmaline Strange

❤️ Girls Night - I.S. Belle 🧡 Late Bloomer - Mazey Eddings 💛 Withered - A.G.A. Wilmot 💚 A Wolf Steps in Blood - Tamara Jerée 💙 It Always Finds Me - Anthology 💜 Dulhaniyaa - Talia Bhatt ❤️ Moon Dust in My Hairnet - JR Creaden 🧡 Blood Justice - Terry J. Benton-Walker 💛 Relinquishing Control - J.J. Arias

❤️ Selamlik - Khaled Alesmael 🧡 Houseswap 101 - Jaime Clevenger 💛 Earthflown by Frances Wren & Litarnes 💚 Covenant v.1 - LySandra Vuong 💙 Honey - Victor Lodato 💜 The Dragonfly Gambit - A.D. Sui ❤️ Double Dyno - Sharon K Angelici & Taylor Rose

[cantsayidont]

December 1934. A Margaret Brundage cover announcing that this issue of WEIRD TALES features a Robert E. Howard novelette, along with a short story by Bassett Morgan ("The Vengeance of Ti Fong"); the novelette "Xeethra" by Clark Ashton Smith; and the novelette "Black God's Shadow" by C.L. Moore. Other contents include a translation of the Jean Ray story "Le gardien du cimetière"; a chapter of the serial "The Trail of the Cloven Hoof" by Arlton Eagie; short stories by Brooke Byrne, August Derleth, and Frank Owen; and interior art by H.R. Hammond.

[igotopinions]

The New Edge Sword & Sorcery 2025 crowdfund is live! Already past 100% funding, this campaign ends on March 15th so there's still plenty of time to unlock stretch goals like DOUBLE ART, INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING DISCOUNT, and infinite pay raises for contributors.

This year there are three issues, one of which is a Sword & Planet special, and a new Jirel of Joiry story written by Molly Tanzer in partnership with the estate of C.L. Moore! it's called...

See samples of work by our 27 different artists, learn more, and back our project here: https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/brackenbooks/new-edge-sword-sorcery-2025

[dangerouscommiesubversive]

"Send me the title of a book you enjoyed"

me, immediately: I've Never Read A Book In My Life Ever

Ok so I'm going with The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope, because it amuses me that the Victorian equivalent of Booktok slop is now a Beloved Classic. I hope that never happens to ACOTAR.

I love The Prisoner of Zenda so much, is the thing. Also you're getting three books, because first off there's:

The Henchman of Zenda, K.J. Charles - which is a romance novel about Rupert of Hentzau, and it kicks ass

And now for the proper other-genre recommendations! Here's two for you:

Swords and Deviltry, Fritz Lieber - since we're looking at the delightful category of "classics which were in their day kinda trashy," this is the first collection of stories about Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser, who stand alongside Conan the Cimmerian as the orignal big-time swords-and-sorcery heroes (and then after that if you want something that Actually Has Women, read Jirel of Joiry by C.L. Moore

Adventures in Unhistory, Avram Davidson - Davidson was an amazing SFF author, but this one's a non-fiction book in which he goes through various mythical figures and fantastic creatures and does his best to trace them all to some kind of real-world origin. I don't know how good his scholarship is, it's been some time since I read it, but his writing is incredible, and it's a really engaging piece of work.

[bookmaven]

SHAMBLEAU AND OTHERS by C.L. Moore. (New York: Gnome Press, 1953) Cover art by Ric Binkley.

Announced by Arkham House but never published by them. This collection of stories about Northwest Smith and Jirel of Joiry originally appeared in Weird Tales. 4,000 copy edition.

"Black God’s Kiss" (October 1934) [Jirel of Joiry]

"Shambleau" (November 1933) [Northwest Smith]

"Black God’s Shadow" (December 1934) [Jirel of Joiry]

"Black Thirst" (April 1934) [Northwest Smith]

"The Tree of Life" (October 1936) [Northwest Smith]

"Jirel Meets Magic"(July 1935) [Jirel of Joiry]

"Scarlet Dreams" (May 1934) [Northwest Smith]

Weird Tales (October 1934) Cover by Margaret Brundage. Story illustrated by H.R. Hammond.

(New York: Galaxy Novel #31, 1957)

“Shambleau”

“Black Thirst”

“The Tree of Life”

[cosmosrebellion]

Fantasy Recs:

The Book of Jhereg by Steven Brust (Dragaera) Black God's Kiss by C.L. Moore (Jirel of Joiry) Waylander by David Gemmell (Waylander) The Blacktongue Thief and Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman (Blacktongue) Assassin’s Apprentice by Robin Hobb (Realm of the Elderlings) The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie (The First Law) A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin (A Song of Ice and Fire) The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold (World of the Five Gods) The Dragonbone Chair by Tad Williams (Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn) Chronicles of the Black Company by Glen Cook (The Black Company) The Dragon’s Path by Daniel Abraham (The Dagger and the Coin) The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson (The Masquerade) Johannes Cabal the Necromancer by Jonathan L. Howard (Johannes Cabal) The Folding Knife by K.J. Parker The Devourers by Indra Das Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell and Piranesi by Susanna Clarke A Country of Ghosts by Margaret Killjoy The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett (Discworld) City of Bones by Martha Wells The Alchemy of Stone by Ekaterina Sedia A Woman of the Sword by Anna Smith Spark Those Above by Daniel Polansky (The Empty Throne) The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez The Dragon Waiting by John M. Ford Books of Blood by Clive Barker Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay The Chatelaine by Kate Heartfield The Etched City by K.J. Bishop The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera Gormenghast by Meryn Peake Viriconium by M. John Harrison Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James (The Dark Star)

Horror Recs:

North American Lake Monsters by Nathan Ballingrud The Marigold by Andrew F. Sullivan The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All by Laird Barron The Wingspan of Severed Hands by Joe Koch A Collapse of Horses by Brian Evenson The Immeasurable Corpse of Nature by Christopher Slatsky Negative Space by B.R. Yeager A Natural History of Hell by Jeffrey Ford We Have Always Lived In The Castle by Shirley Jackson Furnace by Livia Llewelyn Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw Tell Me I'm Worthless by Alison Rumfitt Queen of Teeth by Hailey Piper Leech by Hiron Ennes

Sci-Fi Recs:

An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin Rosewater by Tade Thompson (Rosewater) Ammonite by Nicola Griffith Dawn by Octavia E. Butler (Xenogenesis) A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany Bang Bang Bodhisattva by Aubrey Wood

AHHHHH!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! All go on The List!! Can't wait to check all of them out!

[statecryptids]

Reposting an old book review with a cool new book portrait

THOSE DREADFUL ELTDOWN SHARDS by Franklyn Searight and Richard F. Searight

Some of the hallmarks of the fiction of H.P. Lovecraft- the grandfather of modern cosmic horror- are the ancient tomes of forbidden and madness-inducing knowledge that infest his tales like pallid fungi. His most famous fictional text is the “Necronomicon”, but he also mentions other works like the “Pnakotic Fragments” and the “Book of Azathoth”, along with grimoires invented by his fellow Weird pulp writers such as Robert Bloch’s “Book of EIbon”, Robert E. Howard’s “Nameless Cults”. And, of course, the artifacts that this anthology focuses on: the “Eltdown Shards” of author Richard Searight.

Searight himself only wrote two stories featuring the Shards. The majority of tales in this anthology are actually posthumous “collaborations” with his son, Franklyn Searight. Rounding out the book are Lovecraft’s tales which mention the Shards, including the novella “The Shadow Out of Time”, and more obscure works such as “The Diary of Alonzo Typer”.

The Shards, a collection of clay tablets inscribed with bizarre hieroglyphics written in an unknown, prehuman language, are housed in the museum of Beloin College, a small university near Weston, Wisconsin. Though they seem innocuous, the Shards hide great power that has ensorcelled the minds of many beings throughout the eons.

An overwhelming desire for omniscience- full comprehension of all knowledge in the universe- is a major theme in stories surrounding the Eltdown Shards. Protagonists obsess over the tablets, using the incantations contained in the forgotten hieroglyphics to summon beings such as The Warder of Knowledge, the ice demon Avaloth, and the ape-god Ouran-Atun. As you can imagine, these encounters usually do not end well for the mortal summoners.

Mind transference is another theme in many of the Shards stories. There is a strong connection with the Yithians of Lovecraft’s “Shadow Out of Time”, who came to Earth in the distant past by transferring their minds across the universe into the bodies of the strange, cone-like beings of the Triassic.

Mental voyaging also crops up in “The Challenge From Beyond”, a round robin story co-written by Lovecraft, Searight, and their Pulp-era peers A. Merrit, C.L. Moore, Robert E. Howard and Frank Belknap Long. In this tale a man discovers a strange crystalline cube that turns out to be a mind-teleporting device sent by a race of centipede-people from the distant planet of Yekaub who may or may not be related to the original bodies of the Yithians.

Several of the stories written by Franklyn Searight feature his character Alan Hasrad, a journalist and descendant of Lovecraft’s Mad Arab, Abdul Alhazred. Hasrad’s stories tend to be frustratingly anticlimactic. He investigates some strange thing related to the Shards, obtains information he needs and… well, that’s it. The story “Seized by the Warder” does have an odd twist ending, at least, though it doesn’t add much to the rest of the story.

While Those Dreadful Eltdown Shards don’t add much to the Lovecraft mythos beyond giving some background to a text briefly mentioned in “The Shadow Out of Time”, it is interesting to see the Searights’ own world taking form. There is potential here for an intriguing mythology, it just needs wider expansion and deeper delving.