https://marlenepardopellicer.substack.com/p/circus-secrets-visit-to-gibtown-stories

snippet from interview with Steve Asher

The Fly is a science fiction horror story by George Langelaan, first published in the 1957 issue of Playboy magazine. The story follows François Delambre, who receives a phone call from his sister-in-law, Hélène, confessing to killing her husband, André Delambre, a brilliant scientist. The narrative unfolds as François investigates the mysterious murder, eventually uncovering a shocking truth.
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The story is renowned for its blend of science fiction, mystery, and psychological horror, exploring themes of identity, scientific ambition, and the consequences of tampering with nature. It inspired the 1958 film by the same title, starring Vincent Price and David Hedison, and the 1986 remake by David Cronenberg

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The Hound is a short story written by H. P. Lovecraft published in the 1924 issue of Weird Tales. It is notable for containing the first mention of Lovecraft's fictional grimoire, the Necronomicon, and is considered part of the Cthulhu Mythos.

The story follows an unnamed narrator and his friend St. John, who are obsessed with grave-robbing and have built a macabre museum in their basement filled with preserved bodies, skulls, mummies, and other grotesque artifacts. Their obsession leads them to a Holland churchyard to exhume the tomb of a legendary grave robber. They discover a jade amulet in the shape of a winged hound with a semi-canine face, which they recognize as described in the Necronomicon. After stealing it, they are pursued by a monstrous hound, leading to the death of St. John and the narrator’s descent into madness.

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The Mound is a horror and science fiction novella by H.P. Lovecraft, written in 1929– as a ghostwriter for Zealia Bishop, ...

Something forgotten but not dead still lives in the earth of New England.

Sticks by Karl Edward Wagner tells the story of Colin Leverett, a horror illustrator, who, on a fishing trip in the Adirondack Mountains, stumbles upon an abandoned house surrounded by eerie, geometric formations of sticks and boards. He sketches the figures, and is haunted by what he saw. Years later, he is commissioned to illustrate stories by the reclusive author H. Kenneth Allard (a thinly veiled homage to H.P. Lovecraft). When Leverett uses his old sketches of the stick lattices for the illustrations, he unknowingly activates an ancient, supernatural conspiracy tied to a cult worshipping the Great Old Ones.

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