Weird Words - A Lovecraftian Lexicon

[Nemonymous]

Weird Words - A Lovecraftian Lexicon (Hippocampus Press 2009)
by Dan Clore

I have just purchased this book. It's a vast tomely lexicon of weird words. Very aesthetic. I may pass further comments in due course after exploring it. It seems already to fill a gap in the realm of dictionaries for the benefit of brainwrights and weirdmongers alike.
Here below is a specimen page (no axe to grind with Shakespeare, Jack Vance, James Joyce, Weirdmonger et al!):-

[starrysothoth]

That's a fabulous sample. And congrats on having a weirdmonger passage in there! This thread is also a good reminder. I intended to pick up this volume some time ago, but sort of forgot about it in the flurry of other great books coming out lately.

[Nemonymous]

Quote Originally Posted by starrysothoth

This thread is also a good reminder.

Thanks, O My-Guess-For-The-Author of 'The Shadow's Departure'.
A timely reminder as well as a tomely one?

Just picking some words from this huge gorgeous Lexicon at random:
corpse-light, Charonian, fescenninely, blasphemous, immeasurable, nyctaloptic, recondite, Phlegethontic...

fescenninely (as defined in the book) for example has this quote:-
"Laying an affectionate hand on Valzain's shoulder, he hoisted aloft with the other that fescenninely graven quart goblet from which he was wont to drink only wine, eschewing the drugged and violent liquors often preferred by the sybarites of Umbri."
Clark Ashton Smith, 'Morthylla' (1952)

[LadyLovecraft]

I can't wait to lay my hands on this volume for the first time - as soon as my boxes are unacked and the library's back in the shelves, it's on my "Must. Read. Now." list ...