Gaunt Bugs Volume II, Number 4, Hallowmas 1983
Gaunt Bugs is a mailing of the Esoteric Order of Dagon Amateur Press Association, by Donald R. Burleson and Mollie L. Burleson, Merrimack, NH.
Slim quarto [28 cm] Printed wraps with side-stapled binding. With general light wear. A mimeographed journal from the 1980s with content involving the genre of horror. The Esoteric Order of Dagon Amateur Press Association, founded in 1973, was devoted to scholarship related to H. P. Lovecraft and the works of the "Weird Tales" school of writers. This issue of "Gaunt Bugs" features book reviews by the authors for books such as "The Man Who Would Not Die" by Thomas Page, "Eruption" by Paul Patchick ("Another 'natural' horror-type novel"), "A Different Darkness" by Gene De Weese, "Moon-Death" by Rick Hautala, and "Children of the Night" by John Blackburn, among others. Also includes journal entries describing places the authors have visited in New England: "went looking for the birthplace of a killer today [sic] The town, Gilmanton, N.H., the killer, Herman Webster Mudgett, alias H. H. Holmes. [sic] Mudgett, or Holmes, admitted murderer of 26 people, mostly women, once lived in Chicago in a castle of sorts where were found innumerable bones of disarticulated skeletons. This castle was equipped with torture and gas chambers and quickline pits.
Slim quarto [28 cm] Printed wraps with side-stapled binding. With general light wear. A mimeographed journal from the 1980s with content involving the genre of horror. The Esoteric Order of Dagon Amateur Press Association, founded in 1973, was devoted to scholarship related to H. P. Lovecraft and the works of the "Weird Tales" school of writers. This issue of "Gaunt Bugs" features book reviews by the authors for books such as "The Man Who Would Not Die" by Thomas Page, "Eruption" by Paul Patchick ("Another 'natural' horror-type novel"), "A Different Darkness" by Gene De Weese, "Moon-Death" by Rick Hautala, and "Children of the Night" by John Blackburn, among others. Also includes journal entries describing places the authors have visited in New England: "went looking for the birthplace of a killer today [sic] The town, Gilmanton, N.H., the killer, Herman Webster Mudgett, alias H. H. Holmes. [sic] Mudgett, or Holmes, admitted murderer of 26 people, mostly women, once lived in Chicago in a castle of sorts where were found innumerable bones of disarticulated skeletons. This castle was equipped with torture and gas chambers and quickline pits.