H.P. Lovecraft’s short story The Unnamable was turned into a film in 1988 and has been re-released. Here’s my review on sfcrowsnest. 

From curiosity, I reread the original work. The Unnamable is very early Lovecraft (1923) and I was curious to see if he had originated the four college kids being terrorized by a monster in a haunted house genre. He had not. The scriptwriter/ producer/ director tacks that all onto the end of Lovecraft’s very short yarn.

But the film is entertaining enough and maybe a grade above awful B-movies – a B plus, perhaps. Not that there’s anything wrong with B-movies. I like them.

Eamonn Murphy

 

Here’s a link to a review I wrote about Astounding – a biography of John W. Campbell, Jr., L.Ron Hubbard, Robert Heinlein and Isaac Asimov.

 

Anyone interested in the history of golden age science-fiction might like it. Even if you have read other biographies of Heinlein and Asimov it contains much of interest.

Not recommended for anyone who thinks L. Ron Hubbard was the Messiah.

Eamonn Murphy

 

Not rec

On this lazy Sunday afternoon, I have just read Apollo, a graphic novel from Self-Made Hero publishers.

In words and beautiful pictures, it tells both the factual and the human story of the first moon landing. The 50th anniversary of that event happens next July, on Earth.

The creators are all British persons but perhaps that gave them some distance from it. All the relevant details of the mission are there but the situation back on Earth is shown too: Armstrong’s worried wife, Aldrin’s grumpy father and self-obsessed  President Richard Nixon. It really is a great read and I’d recommend it.

I’m currently writing a review which should appear on sfcrowsnest in a few days.