Tim Carpenter’s adaptation of “The Other Gods” debuted at the Toronto Comics Arts Festival last weekend, and is soon to be available online.
The Other Gods
10 Thursday May 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
Monthly Archives: May 2012
Bibliotheca Fantastica
08 Tuesday May 2012
Cover for Bibliotheca Fantastica, a forthcoming anthology of fantastical stories set in libraries.
Squeeze your Hippocampus
07 Monday May 2012
Posted in Unnamable
Miskatonic Books is having a Hippocampus Press summer sale…
“over 70 titles at 40% to 70% off cover price”
I spotted An Epicure in the Terrible / Lovecraft Encyclopaedia / the Collected Essays series at 55% off. Lovecraft’s Library is 40% off.
The Shadow Out of Time – new movie adaptation
06 Sunday May 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
A super mix of live-action, green screen backdrops, and animation, from the UK’s The Lone Animator. He’s created a fine 15-minute adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Shadow Out of Time”…
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7jp1CT1h6c&w=560&h=315]
The Croning
06 Sunday May 2012
Posted in New books
A very positive Barnes & Noble .com review of Laird Barron’s Lovecraftian novel The Croning…
“The Croning is one of the very best horror novels that I’ve read in decades”
Herbert West—Reanimator – the stage musical
04 Friday May 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
A new Entertainment Weekly interview with the director of the stage musical adaptation of Herbert West—Reanimator.
At the Edge: Art of the Fantastic
03 Thursday May 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
The Allentown Art Museum in the USA has a large exhibition on now, “At the Edge: Art of the Fantastic“…
“…the most comprehensive exhibition of fantastic art to date, it will also be the first time that this discipline has been presented on such a large scale.”
The show runs through the 9th of September 2012.
Algol and Lovecraft
03 Thursday May 2012
Posted in Historical context
Discovery News has a new web article on the history of the relationship between humans and the star Algol. Algol appears as the location of the climax in Lovecraft’s fiction in “Beyond the Wall of Sleep” (1919)…
“You on earth have unwittingly felt its distant presence — you who without knowing idly gave the blinking beacon the name of Algol, the Demon-Star.”
Lovecraft gives Algol as the location for a nova star, Nova Persei, which had indeed happened in fact…
“On 22 February 1901, the discovery of a naked-eye nova, Nova Persei, was announced.” — from: Agnes Mary Clerke and the Rise of Astrophysics, p.145.
S.T. Joshi says in An H.P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia that the…
“account of the nova [was] taken verbatim from his [Lovecraft’s] copy of Garrett P. Serviss’s Astronomy with the Naked Eye (1908).”
My recent book, Walking with Cthulhu, also examines possible borrowings from Serviss.
I’ve also just now found that Popular Science ran a long article on “New Stars” in January 1919, and the story “Beyond The Wall of Sleep” was written in the Spring on 1919. The article was triggered by the then-recent naked-eye Nova Aquilae, and recalls the Nova Persei of 1901…
