![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Lovecraft’s refusal to include such scenes may explain why during his lifetime none of his stories ever received a cover illustration. Howard’s inclusion of this scene was plainly an effort to get on the cover of Weird Tales, which often went to stories with scenes of female nudity and flagellation, as beautifully illustrated by Margaret Brundage. What Lovecraft largely did not comment on in the story was the lengthy flagellation scene that the protagonist in a dream-like vision witnesses before the phallic image of the Black Monolith. Howard’s “The Black Stone” ( Weird Tales Nov 1931) was one of the first expansions of Howard Phillips Lovecraft’s Mythos it introduced the Black Monolith in the town of Stregoicavar the mad poet Justin Geoffrey and von Junzt and his Black Book, Nameless Cults. Lovecraft enjoyed these new elements to the Mythos, particularly von Junzt and his book, which the Gent from Providence incorporated into his own stories, including “The Shadow out of Time,” “The Dreams from the Witch House,” “The Haunter of the Dark,” and “The Thing on the Doorstep,” and two stories ghostwritten for Hazel Heald: “Out of the Aeons” and “The Horror in the Museum.” Lovecraft even had a hand in creating a German name for the Black Book: Unaussprechlichen Kulten. ![]() Dedication to “Red Monolith Frenzy”(2012) ![]()
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