Lovecraft in New York
23 Friday Mar 2012
Posted Lovecraftian arts
in23 Friday Mar 2012
Posted Lovecraftian arts
in22 Thursday Mar 2012
Posted Odd scratchings
inThe BBC Magazine today has a long article by Ramsey Campbell, attempting to explain Lovecraft to the uninitiated.
21 Wednesday Mar 2012
Posted Lovecraftian arts
inA comic book of Lovecraft’s “Dagon”, crowdfunded on Kickstarter in 2011, is now available.
Interview with the artist, here.
21 Wednesday Mar 2012
Posted Lovecraftian arts
inWhat if… Lovecraft had lived, and been taken up as a comic book writer by EC Comics in the mid 1950s…?
20 Tuesday Mar 2012
Posted Historical context
inAll-Story covers, from the 1910s run of this proto-pulp. One can see why these story magazines might have appealed to the young Lovecraft, who was an avid reader of them…
These covers were taken from a ERBzine survey of appearances of Edgar Rice Burroughs stories. More might be found, from a complete run of cover images of the 1910s.
19 Monday Mar 2012
Posted New books
inAnother door-stopper Lovecraftian fiction anthology announced…
18 Sunday Mar 2012
Posted Odd scratchings
inAn inevitable doom creeps toward the unsuspecting world of the smartphonifiers and appytwitterers… The Cthulhu app awakes.
16 Friday Mar 2012
Posted Lovecraftian arts
inThe Green Hand Bookshop, hailing out of Portland in the USA, has a nice set of images of works in their current gallery show Madness Immemorial: a tribute to H.P. Lovecraft. Last year I published a book on Lovecraft and New York, so the picture “Lovecraft in Brooklyn” by Brandon Kawashima was especially appealing to me…
16 Friday Mar 2012
Posted New books, Scholarly works
inA new blog post was made yesterday by S.T. Joshi…
“I was pleased to be asked by Scarecrow Press to initiate a series of scholarly or academic books on weird fiction. The series will, I believe, be called The Literature of the Supernatural.”
And the much-anticipated ‘heavily illustrated’ version of the biography, H.P. Lovecraft: Nightmare Countries, seems to be progressing well. I’m certainly really champing at the bit for that one.
[ Hat-tip: Wilum Pugmire ]
16 Friday Mar 2012
Posted Housekeeping, Lovecraftian arts
inAnd the winner of my recent iClone competition is… joster285. Congratulations! The licences for iClone 4 Pro, 3DXchange 4 Pro, and CrazyTalk 6 Pro are on the way to him. It was a very difficult choice, but sadly there was only one prize to give. Here’s his pitch for making a Lovecraft movie using the iClone real-time movie-making software…
“I would adapt ‘From Beyond’. It’s quite an interesting tale about exploration and distorted reality. Of course, I’m familiar with the Stuart Gordon film adaptation, though, but after making several Lovecraft adaptations with The Movies, I feel that iClone would be the best way to tell the story. I would do the movie in the style of a psychological thriller with minimum dialogue. For visuals, when Tillinghast and his assistant enter the alternative dimension, every time the scene switches camera angles, the color scheme will fade into a different color giving it a distorted feel.”
15 Thursday Mar 2012
Posted Lovecraftian arts
inA detailed illustrated appreciation of the classic
Heavy Metal, October 1979: Lovecraft special issue…
14 Wednesday Mar 2012
Posted Historical context, Lovecraftian arts
inTwo rather fuzzy glimpses inside the original pulp publication of Lovecraft’s “At The Mountains of Madness” (Astounding, 1936), recently given away as first prize in a videogame competition…