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Cthulhu Rising

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Raymond Bayless (1920-2004)

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Raymond Bayless, The Sea of Lost Ships

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Raymond Bayless - Dagon and Other Macabre Tales, 1986

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Please try again Later... - Parapsychological phone calls by Dr Callum E. Cooper

There are potentially hundreds of people who have experienced bizarre events of Telephone Calls from the Dead. Are we genuinely faced with the reality of contact with the dead and evidence for survival?

Much like ghosts, and any other parapsychological phenomena, telephone calls from the dead appear to be highly common. Once all explanations have been considered, psychological and physical, we are left with a phenomenon that is stranger than fiction. This question has been asked before, and was investigated back in 1979, in a book entitled _Phone Calls from the Dead_, written by D. Scott Rogo and Raymond Bayless. For many years, this subject has remained dormant, until now.

In his book Telephone Calls from the Dead (Tricorn Books), Dr Callum E. Cooper explores this perplexing phenomenon and attempts to answer a question that is often greeted with unease, even in parapsychological circles.

Dr Cooper is a Chartered Psychologist with the British Psychological Society and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, holding postgraduate degrees in psychology, social science research methods and education, from the University of Northampton, Sheffield Hallam University and Manchester Metropolitan University. He is based at the University of Northampton as an Associate Professor, where he lectures on Parapsychology, Thanatology, Positive Psychology and Human Sexual Behaviour.

He holds numerous grants and awards in parapsychology including the Eileen J. Garrett Scholarship (Parapsychology Foundation, 2009), the Alex Tanous Scholarship Award (Alex Tanous Foundation for Scientific Research, numerous, since 2011), the Gertrude R. Schmeidler Award (Parapsychological Association, 2014), and a 2018 nominee for the Ockham's Razor Award for Skeptical Activism (The Skeptic Magazine and QEDcon) among other awards.

He is member of organisations such as the Society for Psychical Research (and on its council), the Parapsychological Association, a Hope Studies Graduate Researcher (University of Alberta), and a member of the research group Exceptional Experiences and Consciousness Studies (EECS, University of Northampton). Additionally, he has appeared on UK and USA radio and TV shows as a representative for parapsychology.

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Stone of Sisyphus, “a journey into an age undreamed of,” for TRS-80, Apple II, or Atari, from the Maces & Magic series which also included Balrog and Morton’s Fork, by Chameleon Software & distributed by Adventure International  (Raymond Bayless art from ad in Different Worlds 19, Chaosium, February 1982)  “Includes 2 jam-packed disks of data but will work on your 1 drive microcomputer!”

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D. Scott Rogo and Raymond Bayless - Phone Calls from the Dead - Prentice Hall - 1979

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Raymond Bayless (1920-2004) — Twin Crafts  (oil on panel, 1990)

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Dagon and Other Macabre Tales rounds out the trilogy. I have a fondness for this collection, as the corrected edition was the first Arkham House I ever read (courtesy of the Ocean County library). “Dagon,” the proto “Call of Cthulhu” story, is one of my favorites by Lovecraft, even if this collection mostly amounts to a round up of lesser works. It includes the powerhouse essay “Supernatural Horror in Literature,” but omits a handful of prose poems, like “Nyarlathotep,” which seems like a strange choice.

The original edition (1965) sports a swell cover by Lee Brown Coye, my favorite of the three 60s editions. I am not entirely sure what it is meant to depict. I really want it to be “The Terrible Old Man,” but that story is in Dunwich Horror. It doesn’t really matter, though, it is still a terrific and terrifying cover. The corrected edition (1986) cover is by Raymond Bayless. For a long time I assumed this depicted events from “Arthur Jermyn,” but I have since decided that since that story is racist as hell (and not very good either), that a better guess is that this shows a member of the cannibalistic Martense family from “The Lurking Fear” (which, in fairness, also not great in terms of eugenics, but it is less overtly gross than “Arthur Jermyn” at least). The new cover (2001) by  Tony Patrick shows good old “Dagon,” and I quite like it. It is maybe my favorite of the new set of covers.

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‪Editions of HP Lovecraft’s THE DUNWICH HORROR AND OTHERS (1963).

Raymond Bayless art for the 1985 edition, art for the 1978 cover by Rowena Morrill, the original 1963 cover by Lee Brown Coye, and the 1971 edition with art by Victor Valla.‬

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Phone Calls From the Dead by D. Scott Rogo and Raymond Bayless, Berkley Publishing (1980)

Classic book that was the first to address the phenomenon of telephone calls from  the dead, also called anomalous telephone contact. Very easy to read. You will find it hard to put down.  It is available in mass market paperback and hardcover forms on Amazon

The Rogo and Bayless study collected fifty cases of ATC phenomena that were classified by length and interactivity of communication to include “simple” and “prolonged” telephone conversations.   

They found a number of striking patterns in ATC cases

The plurality of phone calls from the dead (27%) were in the “crisis” period, occurring within 24 hours of the death of the caller

Close to this percentage (25%) involved calls within the “post-mortem” period of one to seven days of death. An equal percentage of calls occurred within two and six months of death

REFERENCE:

Rogo, D. S., & Bayless, R. (1980). Phone calls from the dead. Berkley Publishing Corporation. Sponsored

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DAGON AND OTHER MACABRE TALES by H.P. Lovecraft. (Sauk City: Arkham House, 1986). Selected by August Derleth, text editing by S.T. Joshi, introduction by T.E.D. Klein. Cover illustration by Raymond Bayless.

All the remaining fiction by H.P. Lovecraft is collected in this final volume of the definitive Lovecraft, which includes every type of imaginative story in which the author excelled—Dunsanian fantasies, Gothic horror, and tales of the Cthulhu Mythos. Though secondary to the remarkable fiction preserved in THE DUNWICH HORROR and AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS, these early works constitute absorbing testimony to Lovecraft’s creative development. Completing this volume is the only critical recension of “Supernatural Horror in Literature,” the single most significant essay on the horror genre.’

A Note on the Texts, by S.T. Joshi

A Dreamer’s Tales, by T.E.D. Klein

The Tomb

Dagon

Polaris

Beyond the Wall of Sleep

The White Ship

The Doom That Came to Sarnath

The Tree

The Cats of Ulthar

The Temple

Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family

Celephaïs

From Beyond

The Nameless City

The Quest of Iranon

The Moon-Bog

The Other Gods

Herbert West—Reanimator

Hypnos

The Hound

The Lurking Fear

The Unnamable

The Festival

Under the Pyramids

The Horror at Red Hook

He

The Strange High House in the Mist

The Evil Clergyman

In the Walls of Eryx

The Beast in the Cave

The Alchemist

The Transition of Juan Romero

The Street

Poetry and the Gods

Azathoth

The Descendant

The Book

Supernatural Horror in Literature

Index to Supernatural Horror in Literature

Chronology of the Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft

Bibliographic Information

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Raymond Bayless

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RAYMOND BAYLESS (1920 - 2004) Dagon and Other Macabre Tales, book cover art (1986) https://ift.tt/35k0sPm January 05, 2020 at 08:59PM +visit our fellow Goethepunk art page

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Raymond Bayless - Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions

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Scott Rogo and Raymond Bayless published examples of calls involving the deceased in their 1979 book Phone Calls from the Dead (read PDF). At the time it was criticised by skeptics as being "unscientific". In 2012- 2024 parapsychologist Dr. Callum E. Cooper revisited the subject in his book Telephone Calls from the Dead (revised edition 2024) and extended the work of Rogo and Bayless with new examples and further analysis. He gives some biographical details of Rogo and Bayless, then traces the history of research into anomalous communication utilising the telephone. In some cases calls were spontaneously received, in others, researchers built equipment – psychic telephones – which they hoped would facilitate contact with the beyond.