First published in Weird Tales January 1925, this one should stick with you for a while. Lovecraft’s legacy, Frank Belknap Long spent much of his life in the shadow of one of weird fiction’s founding fathers, wearing the burden like an albatross about the neck. We tangle with Frank Belknap Long’s hideous “The Ocean Leech”. Our books and E-books are on Kindle/Amazon:įollow/Support Us on Twitter/Instagram/Patreon/Bandcamp (Dweller of the Dark)

(The Curious Death of Dionysus Chennault) YouTube/ Rumble/Apple/ Anchor FM/ Spotify/ Radio Public/WordPress: Dweller of the Dark Released in 1975, more than 50 years after the start of Longs career, it contains some of. The highlight is definitely The Festival, which has always been one of my favorite Lovecraft stories The Fireplace and The Ocean Leech are also quite good. The Early Long is a collection of stories by Frank Belknap Long. Walk our fiery path and find us on here, our websites, podcasts and FIVERR to raise seven kinds of Hell!Ĭheck out our new books on Amazon, podcasts, and websites. A definite improvement over the previous few issues, with several stories that are quite good indeed. UNKNOWN HORROR MASTERS! Send us ghoulish delights for “The Skull and Bones Collection”! Your pound of writer’s flesh will feed our ghouls…for now. SUBSCRIBE/ COMMENT/ LIKE/ DONATE or I’ll send “The Devil of Black Bayou” to rip your head off as we did the LIKE button. More tales of the horrifying, obscure, strange, and forgotten are climbing out of the tombs. We will be digging up several obscure, strange, and forgotten authors who influenced many of the great horror, science fiction, and fantasy writers today. We are a channel honoring the yellowed and blackened bones of many prominent authors. I saw through the folds of animated jelly a great reddish sucker, or disk, lined with silver teeth.

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The Ocean Leech by Frank Belknap Long