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The art of Wallace Smith, 1888–1937

https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2025/02/03/the-art-of-wallace-smith-1888-1937/

Published: February 3, 2025 16:30

Fantazius Mallare (1922). One of the links this past weekend was to a lengthy essay about Ben Hecht’s censor-baiting novel, Fantazius Mallare: A Mysterious Oath (1922), a book illustrated by Hecht’s friend, Wallace Smith. I wrote a piece of my own about…

Weekend links 763

https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2025/02/01/weekend-links-763/

Published: February 1, 2025 19:00

I Live in Shock (1955) by Mimi Parent. • At Public Domain Review: “Ben Hecht’s Fantazius Mallare (1922) is at turns obtuse, grotesque, and moralizing—and sought to provoke the obscenity trial of the century. Only it didn’t, quietly vanishing instead. Colin…

Sabin Balasa animations

https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2025/01/29/sabin-balasa-animations/

Published: January 29, 2025 16:30

The Drop (1966). Changing the appearance of a painting frame by frame is one of the techniques available to animators but you don’t usually see artists working in this manner as offshoots of their gallery careers. Sabin Balasa (1932–2008) was a Romanian…

Kadath and Yog-Sothoth

https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2025/01/27/kadath-and-yog-sothoth/

Published: January 27, 2025 16:30

Last month I posted an updated version of the Yuggoth collage I created in 1994 for the Starry Wisdom story collection. I didn’t mention at the time that one purpose of the reworking was to freshen the piece for a more ambitious updating of my own…

Weekend links 762

https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2025/01/25/weekend-links-762/

Published: January 25, 2025 19:00

Aquarius from the 1971 Astrologicalendar by Peter Max. Via. • AOS of London: Psychogeographia Zosiana is a map guide to the London of Austin Osman Spare with accompanying illustrations by Ben Thompson. The book also contains an interview transcript in…

Novelty and curio catalogues

https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2025/01/22/novelty-and-curio-catalogues/

Published: January 22, 2025 16:30

One of the more esoteric corners of the Internet Archive is the section devoted to the International Association for the Preservation of Spiritualist and Occult Periodicals: “The IAPSOP is a US-based private organization focused on the digital preservation…

Nightmare Alleys

https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2025/01/20/nightmare-alleys/

Published: January 20, 2025 16:30

Undated paperback. My reading this week has been William Lindsay Gresham’s Nightmare Alley, a novel I’d been intending to read for some time after becoming familiar with the story from the first film adaptation. (I haven’t seen the recent version.)…

Weekend links 761

https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2025/01/18/weekend-links-761/

Published: January 18, 2025 19:00

• At Bandcamp: Marc Masters on The Curious Case of the Channeled New Age Tape; and Erick Bradshaw’s guide to Nurse With Wound. • At Public Domain Review: Designing the Sublime – Boullée and Ledoux’s Architectural Revolution by Hugh Aldersey-Williams. • The…

David Lynch, 1946–2025

https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2025/01/17/david-lynch-1946-2025/

Published: January 17, 2025 16:30

Photo by Frank Connor from The Elephant Man: The Book of the Film (1980). I feel at a loss for words on this occasion, Lynch’s films have been a continual presence in my life since I saw The Elephant Man in 1981. I’d actually been thinking of watching some…