VNS – On Madness
The first assignment from the Vacation Necronomicon School is a meditation on madness and the unknown, influenced by H.P. Lovecraft’s The Haunter of the Dark. Is insanity the inevitable consequence of...
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Our second assignment examines how well one of my favourite living authors, Neil Gaiman, copes with crossing over the work of two of my favourite dead authors. A Study in Emerald takes Conan Doyle’s...
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VNS – The Elder Sign
What is Summer Camp without some arts and crafts? And the third assignment of VNS is to create an Elder Signout of clay. Image used under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Licence Alas, I have no...
View ArticleVNS – Under the Sea
Today’s Lovecraftian lesson is based upon The Shadow Over Innsmouth. In this story a number of dark secrets slowly come to light. They are only hinted at, until the first denouement reveals the...
View ArticleVNS – Howard Himself
HP Lovecraft was no believer in the supernatural and the occult. Whilst these elements appear to permeate his stories, in reality Lovecraft’s entities are higher dimensional beings. Aliens,...
View ArticleVNS – The Houdini Connection
Under the Pyramids, a story ghostwritten by Lovecraft for the American escapologist Harry Houdini, has never been one of my favourite Lovecraft stories, but our assignment today is to write on any...
View ArticleVNS – Words, and Yet More Words
What is my favourite Lovecraftian word or phrase? So many tempting morsals to choose from. Lovecraft had a gift for using (some may say abusing) language, but there is no denying that his descriptive...
View ArticleVNS – Restless Nights
What do I, Lovecraft, and the Headmistress of the Vacation Necronomicon School have in common? Night terrors. Lovecraft suffered terribly from them. Which perhaps explains his obsession with the...
View ArticleVNS – The Fifth Portrait
Our final assignment for Vacation Necronomicon School is to choose a concept from HP Lovecraft’s commonplace book and interpret it as we wish. I have chosen number 210: “An ancient house with blackened...
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