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Monthly Archives: September 2011

Fungi from Yuggoth, free audio-book

30 Friday Sep 2011

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William Hart’s excellent free reading of Lovecraft’s complete Fungi from Yuggoth. Blissfully music-free and FX-free.

The Whisperer in Manchester

30 Friday Sep 2011

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The Whisperer in Darkness movie is set for its UK premiere in October.

I Am cheap

28 Wednesday Sep 2011

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The two-volume I Am Providence, currently direct from Amazon with free shipping, for just $63. I doubt it’ll ever get much lower than this?

Free Wayne June reading of ‘The Statement Of Randolph Carter’

27 Tuesday Sep 2011

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The 19th Sept 2011 SFF Audio Podcast #126 offers…

“a complete and unabridged reading of The Statement Of Randolph Carter by H.P. Lovecraft, read by Wayne June (from the Audio Realms collection The Dark Worlds Of H.P. Lovecraft – Volume 3), followed by a discussion of the story.”

Steampunk Writers & Artists Guild

26 Monday Sep 2011

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I just found the Steampunk Writers & Artists Guild, which may be of interest to some readers here.

Lovecraft in Iran

26 Monday Sep 2011

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As if Iran wasn’t horrific enough, Lovecraft has been translated and is set to be published there…

“The book A Dark Lore including six phantasmagorical short stories by American writer Howard Phillips Lovecraft is converted into Persian by Arash Tahmasbi […] and will be released by Farhang Javid Publications.”

Across the genres

26 Monday Sep 2011

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Kim Wright muses on why so many contemporary literary fiction authors are prepared to dip their toe in writing genre fiction…

“Once upon a time, genre was treated as almost a different industry from literary fiction, ignored by critics, sneered at by literary writers, relegated by publishers to imprint ghettos. But the dirty little and not-particularly-well-kept secret was that […] these genre books were the ones who kept the entire operation in business. All those snobbish literary writers had better have hoped like hell that their publishers had enough genre moneymakers in house to finance the advance for their latest beautifully rendered and experimentally structured observation of upper class angst.”

“it’s not just a matter of writers flipping back and forth, it’s a matter of genre and literary cross-pollinating to produce a new species”

The first half of the reader comments are quite interesting, too — but then the “what counts as SF” genre-police bores arrive.

Stealing Cthulhu – review

25 Sunday Sep 2011

Posted by asdjfdlkf in Lovecraftian arts, New books

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I just finished reading an e-copy of the new book, Stealing Cthulhu ($35). The 30,000-word book was written for those who run tabletop role-play games (RPGs), and who need to devise new scenes, unique plots, and familiar-but-fresh monsters. But the book will also interest writers, especially since the remix culture is now breaking down old writerly taboos around unique ‘authenticity’. Writers won’t be swamped in tedious RPG rules arcana, since that particular monster is safely locked away in a single short appendix (where the author sets out his own simple RPG system called Cthulhu Dark). In the body of the text the reader is offered clear and intelligent breakdowns of what Lovecraft does and how and why he does it, drawing on a clutch of his key stories. The author has obviously wandered freely in the vast catacomb of Lovecraft’s writing (and also a few of the wider Mythos stories), but what he loots from it is then rigourously and sensibly organised. The writing is clear and concise throughout. There may be “how to” books on writing horror (I haven’t bothered to look), but this book is the only writing guide for Lovecraftian horror/SF that I’ve ever heard of. Maybe it’s better than standard “writers guide” tomes, since it doesn’t suggest how to write — simply how to come up with ideas about what to write about and how to structure those ideas. Another advantage is that the author’s approach arises from oral RPG storytelling sessions, not from academic lit-crit theories or writers’ workshop ‘rules’. He simply gets down to giving easy-to-follow guidance on how to recombine and re-work ideas / characters / monsters / settings / atmospheres, etc, to tell new stories that can satisfy tabletop gamers. The structural story breakdowns are followed by light suggestions for adapting these elements so they work with RPG player groups, but the author never gets bogged down in this. Of course, one then needs a slathering of freshly weird imagination laid on top of these basic re-mixes. And a writer may need to insert plot switchbacks, like Lovecraft did. But the book presents a good system for getting a starting base story, and will no doubt help jump-start many blocked writers. For an ebook (I had it as a PDF) it’s rather expensive at $35 (about £23), but not so when you factor in that your $35 will also eventually get you a collectable print copy. A unique and recommended book.

The Dunwich Horror theatre show in London

25 Sunday Sep 2011

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An interesting-sounding theatre adaptation of The Dunwich Horror, which appears to be booking now for autumn 2011 performances in soi trendy Hoxton, London…

Dream-Quest book funded on Kickstarter

24 Saturday Sep 2011

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Excellent news! The Kickstarter project of Jason B. Thompson, who aims to publish his The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath and Other Stories book, has today reached its $10,000 pledge target — and with 45 days to go. He also had one backer who pledged $1,000. This means we get a brand new 6-8 page comics adaptation from Jason, of a Lovecraft story, at some point in the future.

New Murray Groat Tintin/Lovecraft covers

20 Tuesday Sep 2011

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New Murray Groat faux Tintin/Lovecraft covers…

Lovecraft in Historical Context books – now available for the Kindle

20 Tuesday Sep 2011

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I’m pleased to say that both my Lovecraft in Historical Context books of essays and historical notes are now available on the Kindle: One (2010) and Two (2011).

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