S.T. Joshi is back from his Australian tour and his blog has just updated.

He’s wittled his Lovecraft biography down to a mere 8,000 words and has committed the results to a vinyl LP record! This is due for release shortly, with music — and I assume also with graphic design and sleeve-notes of the sort that will please the vinyl collectors.

Joshi also notes an Italian translation of the first volume of I Am Providence is due for October 2019, with the dust-jacket sporting an affordable “29 Euro” tag. The second volume of the German language translation is less certain on the date, but is reported as likely to appear at around the same time.

News also of a new Joshi editorship, of …

a new magazine to be published next summer by Hippocampus Press: Penumbra. This will be an annual magazine, consisting of up to 100,000 words, chiefly devoted to criticism and scholarship of weird fiction (exclusive of Lovecraft), but it will also include a small amount of original fiction (about 30,000 words in each issue).

Submissions are invited.