The R'lyeh Tribune

New Beginning In the summer of 2013 I created The R’lyeh Tribune blog, and wrote weekly posts until May of 2017.  Most of those essays and a...

Our local Science Fiction/Horror Reading Group is discussing Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House this month.   This short nove...

In the previous two posts we reviewed Lovecraft’s use of conventional techniques to create verisimilitude in his stories.   In particula...

In the previous post, three factors that determine the believability and effectiveness of a narrative text were discussed.   These inclu...

How do we know what we know?   How do we persuade others that what we know is the truth?   And most importantly, in the creation of ho...