D.F. Lewis

[yellowish haze]

I noticed earlier today that last year someone has posted the entire Deathrealm 20 (1993 Winter) to Webarchive.

Deathrealm 20 (1993 Winter) : Free Download Streaming : Internet Archive

Contains the article TENTACLES FROM ACROSS THE ATLANTIC and the story NIGHT OF THE LOVELIES, both by DFL. The issue also contains the article D. F. LEWIS: THE WIZARD OF ODD by Marni Scofidio.

[Masonwire]

It seems that Fred Chappell wrote a letter (it can be found in the letter column). He wrote (amongst other things) the novel "Dagon", which is a weird Lovecraft/Southern Gothic hybrid (with more emphasis on the latter).

[Nemonymous]

Quote Originally Posted by yellowish haze

I noticed earlier today that last year someone has posted the entire Deathrealm 20 (1993 Winter) to Webarchive. Deathrealm 20 (1993 Winter) : Free Download Streaming : Internet Archive Contains the article TENTACLES FROM ACROSS THE ATLANTIC and the story NIGHT OF THE LOVELIES, both by DFL. The issue also contains the article D. F. LEWIS: THE WIZARD OF ODD by Marni Scofidio.

Thanks, Slawek.
An amazing coincidence connected to your posting about this above when you did, as shown at this link: HERE.

[Nemonymous]

It might seem strange that I am asking someone other than myself to track down one of my ancient stories. But if you can, I shall be grateful.
It’s about an old man in a pub spouting small talk about a hub under the pavement that connects with the rest of the world and a paper monster walking the streets,
I wrote it, I guess, in the late 1980s, and it was later published in the 1990s.

[Nemonymous]

Quote Originally Posted by Nemonymous

It might seem strange that I am asking someone other than myself to track down one of my ancient stories. But if you can, I shall be grateful. It’s about an old man in a pub spouting small talk about a hub under the pavement that connects with the rest of the world and a paper monster walking the streets, I wrote it, I guess, in the late 1980s, and it was later published in the 1990s.

Someone kindly tracked it down following my Facebook appeal. It was hiding in plain sight all the time:
Rameau's Nephew: The Lurk Descending

PS: please also see the added comment here: The Original Hub | DES LEWIS GESTALT REAL-TIME REVIEWS

[Nemonymous]

I have just had a few gloriously momentous days gestalt real-time reviewing.

[Nemonymous]

https://www.facebook.com/des.lewis.90/posts/2138163502865518

Post by https://www.facebook.com/des.lewis.90/posts/2138163502865518.

[Nemonymous]

I have heard that some people have become lost in my Gestalt Real-Time Reviews and are still trying to get out!
www.nemonymous.com

[Nemonymous]

Quote Originally Posted by bendk

I just found my copy of Dagon 26 which is the D.F. Lewis Special issue. In it TL is quoted as saying: "...the Stories of Murkales" series and "Digory Smalls" are the product of a highly sophisticated and wonderfully nightmarish imagination, an expertly controlled and sardonic vision that reminds me as much of avant-gardists like William Burroughs as it does the best traditions of horror literature as represented by Lovecraft, Poe, Machen, Blackwood etc.)... Mr. Lewis's stories form part of a larger pattern in my own imagination...composed of the efforts of certain writers, artists, and editors who in the middle 1970s lured me into their sub-world of supernatural horror. These people and their works are admittedly few and far between, but they have been prevalent enough to create a powerful mystique which has pleasantly obsessed me for the past fifteen years or so. And I don't mind confessing that the greater part of this mystique has been and continues to be British in origin...Since I am not particularly Anglophilic, as were those two American gods of horror, I can only explain this predilection as part of a general affinity for the products of relatively decayed cultures, even when these products are, on the surface, aggressively nouveau. And this brings me back to D.F. Lewis, whose work I hope to continue to read..."

That Dagon issue was published in 1989. And above is something Ligotti wrote that was quoted in it.

[Nemonymous]

BTW, 'Digory Smalls' and 'The Stories of Murkales', mentioned in that Ligotti quote, are reprinted in the now 'cheap' secondhand 'Weirdmonger' book also mentioned above.