H. P. Lovecraft, C. S. Lewis, and Me.

An engaging and personal essay by Stephen Hayes, where in a journey of discovery “Perelandra restored an equilibrium in the world of my imagination.”

The Oddest Inkling

Here is a guest post by Stephen Hayes, a regular reader of this blog. It is a highly personal, spiritually-autobiographical story about his individual experience. If any of you readers would like to offer a post on Lovecraft and Williams, I’d be interested to hear a pitch.

CONTRIBUTOR BIO: Stephen Hayes was born in London’s East End in 1955 and studied medicine at Southampton 1974-1979. He worked for some 20 years as a Primary Care Physician and is now an Associate Dermatologist and skin cancer diagnostics educator. He blogs about skin cancer and less often about C S Lewis. He is a long-term fan of C S Lewis, and his first (Amazon kindle) novel Darwin’s Adders: A Chronicle of Pagan England 2089‘ was written after the thought came to him one July 2009 morning: ‘What if, in That Hideous Strength, the bad guys had won, and…

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“A Pilgrim in Narnia” is a blog project in reading and talking about the work of C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, the Inklings, L.M. Montgomery, and the worlds they created. As a "Faith, Fantasy, and Fiction" blog, we cover topics like children’s literature, myths and mythology, fantasy, science fiction, speculative fiction, poetry, theology, cultural criticism, art and writing. This blog includes my thoughts as I read through my favourite writings and reflect on my own life and culture. In this sense, I am a Pilgrim in Narnia--or Middle Earth, or Fairyland, or Avonlea. I am often peeking inside of wardrobes, looking for magic bricks in urban alleys, or rooting through yard sale boxes for old rings. If something here captures your imagination, leave a comment, “like” a post, share with your friends, or sign up to receive Narnian Pilgrim posts in your email box. Brenton Dickieson (PhD, Chester) is a father, husband, friend, university lecturer, and freelance writer from Prince Edward Island, Canada. You can follow him: www.aPilgrimInNarnia.com Twitter (X) @BrentonDana Instagram @bdickieson Facebook @aPilgrimInNarnia

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8 Responses to H. P. Lovecraft, C. S. Lewis, and Me.

David Llewellyn Dodds says:

April 20, 2018 at 4:29 pm

Thanks for this – “these are a few of my favorite things” – works of H.P.L. & C.W.!

I wish somebody’d do something as good cinematically with and for Williams as Raymond Saint-Jean and assorted other Canadians did in Out of Mind: The Stories of H.P. Lovecraft (1998)!

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- David Llewellyn Dodds says:
  
  April 20, 2018 at 4:46 pm
  
  Oops – the bottom of that intro got me thinking this was already about C.W., too! (Did I start to enjoy C.W.’s or C.S.L.’s fiction first, after years of enjoying Lovecraft’s? – probably a near thing, either way.)
  
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David Llewellyn Dodds says:

April 26, 2018 at 4:39 pm

It’s been good to read this – and even better the linked longer version – and also the complementary post by the ‘other Steve Hayes’ (and all the comments – dare I say, ‘of course’?) !

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- Brenton Dickieson says:
  
  April 26, 2018 at 4:46 pm
  
  I haven’t gotten yet to all the comments on all the various blogs, but there are some interesting links.
  
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  - David Llewellyn Dodds says:
    
    April 27, 2018 at 9:46 pm
    
    I’m looking forward to following up Steve Hayes’s links within his post, and Stephen Hayes’s site looks full of interesting things, too…!
    
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