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Monthly Archives: October 2011

CeltX, free writing software

21 Friday Oct 2011

Posted by asdjfdlkf in Odd scratchings

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Looking for software that can help you wrange your creative vision? How does “free” and “open-source” sound? CeltX is rapidly moving toward a version 3.0. It started off as storyboarding software for animators and movie-makers — but now includes templates for organising and shaping screenplays, comic books, novels, radio plays, and even stage drama. It’s also nice to see documention books appearing for it. Graham Higson of the UK’s Falmouth University M.A. Writing course has just written a long review of the ebook of the new book Celtx: Open Source Screenwriting Beginner’s Guide.

Unnamable in a graveyard

21 Friday Oct 2011

Posted by asdjfdlkf in Lovecraftian arts

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More Lovecraft theatre. UCLA Theatre Studies alumni will return to a site near their old campus to perform H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Unnamable” in a graveyard.

New Weird Tales launched

21 Friday Oct 2011

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Nth Dimension Media has launched the ‘new’ Weird Tales, with a nicely retro cover…

“The new Weird Tales will be open to nearly all sorts of genre fiction, including absurdist humor, fantasy, horror, mystery and surrealism.”

Joshi podcast interview, and The Gothic Imagination

21 Friday Oct 2011

Posted by asdjfdlkf in New books, Podcasts etc., Scholarly works

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S.T. Joshi’s blog has updated with a long post on his activities, including a link to a 10-minute MP3 interview between a Penguin Classics Editor, Elda Rotor, and Joshi. The second half of the podcast is a del Toro interview.

I found his mention of this forthcoming book especially interesting…

“John C. Tibbetts’s The Gothic Imagination (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), a substantial collection of interviews with past and current figures in the horror field.”

It seems The Gothic Imagination will be shipping in a few weeks.

  [ Hat-tip: Wilum Pugmire ]

Inside the Ladd Observatory

20 Thursday Oct 2011

Posted by asdjfdlkf in Astronomy, Historical context

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The Brown Herald steps inside the Ladd Observatory…

“A multitude of eyes have peered through the 15-foot telescope in the past 120 years, including those of H.P. Lovecraft — who had his own key to the observatory — local teachers, students and professors.”

ePics has a nice Creative Commons Flickr set of the interior…

The Graveyard Book, full and free

19 Wednesday Oct 2011

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Neil Gaiman reads the whole of his macabre children’s novel The Graveyard Book, free on Mouse Circus. Love the idea of going on a book reading tour, reading each chapter to a different audience, then putting video of all the readings on a combined website for a complete book reading.

Where The Deep Ones Are

19 Wednesday Oct 2011

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Where The Deep Ones Are. Another fab cultural re-mix of lovely Lovecraftian hybridity. This one mashes Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are with Lovecraft’s “The Shadow Over Innsmouth”. Wired magazine has the full story.

Innsmouth Magazine #8

18 Tuesday Oct 2011

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Innsmouth Magazine #8 is now available, with a lovely cover and new Kindle version (USA & UK) and an ePub version on Smashwords.

It’s Fatale

17 Monday Oct 2011

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An interesting-sounding new comic, announced at the NYC ComicCon, called Fatale.

Fatale is Lovecraftian horror noir — or “noirror”. A reporter in 2012 stumbles on a secret that leads him down the darkest path imaginable… to a seductive woman who’s been on the run since 1935, a mobster who may be an immortal demon monster, and the stories of all the doomed men who’ve been caught in their decades-long struggle. Fatale blends noir and horror to tell a riveting epic unlike anything you’ve seen before.

It’s a massive 12-parter that’s set to ship its first issue in January 2012. Which presumably means it’ll inevitably mutate into a chunky graphic novel weighing in at around 280 pages.

Whisperer in Darkness opens in Vermont

17 Monday Oct 2011

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The Whisperer in Darkness movie premieres in White River Junction, Vermont at a special flood benefit screening, with a special talk about Lovecraft’s Vermont trip (the flooding there in the 1920s partly inspired the story) and a prop auction. The film’s makers have also donated three miniature sets to the White River Junction museum which is an interesting-sounding…

“eclectic display space for material culture and an experiment in a new taxonomy. Originally thought of as an “alternative” museum, the museum’s present form and activities resemble the 18th and 19th century “cabinet of curiosities” and point to an interest in the historic roots of museums and museology.”

Phantasmagorium #1

17 Monday Oct 2011

Posted by asdjfdlkf in Lovecraftian arts, New books

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Phantasmagorium, a new horror fiction e-zine. Edited by Laird Barron. $4.99. No Kindle edition, but you can probably do a basic auto-convert of the ePub with the free Calibre software (my tutorial is here). A print-on-demand edition is said to be due soon.

James and Lovecraft on NYC

16 Sunday Oct 2011

Posted by asdjfdlkf in Historical context

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Where The Wild Boys Are has an interesting new essay comparing the predjudiced responses to New York made by Henry James and Lovecraft.

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