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Monthly Archives: July 2012

Lovecraft in Weird Tales, the monstrous facsimile!

25 Wednesday Jul 2012

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Got a spare $200+, and looking for the coolest Xmas present? The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society has a two-volume set of facsimiles of all Lovecraft’s Weird Tales appearances…

“These two volumes reprint in facsimile all of Lovecraft’s writings in Weird Tales: original tales, collaborations, poems and letters to ye editor. Volume One covers October 1923—July 1924, and is an oversized edition of 52 pages; Volume Two (November 1924—September 1952) is 568 pages!”

   [ Hat-tip: Wimum Pugmire ]

Providence Public Library

24 Tuesday Jul 2012

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Providence Public Library main Children’s Room, as Lovecraft would have known it…

My immediate thought is that this photograph was made during a school visit, to make it seem busy. But possibly in the pre-radio age children just had a different attitude to books and learning, and really did flock there in such numbers.

Something of a boys’ eye view of the exterior of the building…

A plan from Architectural Review, 1902 (sorry, this is the biggest I can find it) of the Library, which had formally opened in March 1900…

Hopefully the plans will appear in Joshi’s forthcoming Lovecraft’s-life-in-photographs book.

Interesting factoid for your next Lovecraft quiz night: the Fleur-de-Lys Studios building (in “The Call of Cthulhu”) was designed by the same team who designed the Providence Public Library.

Robert W. Chambers

24 Tuesday Jul 2012

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Pornokitsch has a re-evaluation of Robert W. Chambers (The King in Yellow, 1895). Despite turning his back on the weird (although Jared points out that he could still do it, as he briefly showed in the depths of the First World War), he should not therefore be written off as a literary failure.

Annals of The Paterson Rambling Club

24 Tuesday Jul 2012

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Joseph Rydings (1934), Country Walks in Many Fields; Being Certain Choice Annals of The Paterson Rambling Club. Paterson, NJ: Press of the Morning Call.

There seems to have been a modern (POD?) $15 reprint of this 338-page book by the Passiac County Historical Society, but the first edition seems pretty common. The Society website was last updated 2009, and they have blanked the Publications page. The book’s Contents list is available here. The book does not appear in Joshi’s Comprehensive Bibliography, and it’s possible no Lovecraftian has ever looked through it to glean anything that might relate to Morton and the Lovecraft circle.

The Paterson Rambling Club was apparently where several members of the Lovecraft circle took refuge, after Lovecraft had left New York City. Paterson was where James F. Morton was curator of the Paterson Museum.

From Beyond

23 Monday Jul 2012

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Vintage lobby card for The Man from Beyond (1922), a Harry Houdini film featuring a man defrosted from the Arctic ice…

The Best Moving Pictures of 1922-23 states this movie was “Released August 20, 1922”, having had a premiere in New York in April. The release date means that this cannot have been the object of the major cinema outing by Lovecraft and friends during his stay in Cleveland (from 30th July – 15th Aug 1922)…

“in the evening Loveman organised a party to see the most lavish cinema show in town — a party consisting of himself, a friend named Baldwin, Kirk, young Wheeler, Galpin, and myself.”

Given the various release dates of the 1922-release movies, and the likely tastes of the group, it was more likely that the movie seen was either the lackluster (and now mostly lost) Sherlock Holmes of 1922, or Nanook of the North (a ground-breaking documentary filmed in the Arctic). Since Lovecraft doesn’t even mention the name of the movie in his letter, it was probably the disappointing Holmes. If so, then Lovecraft could at least have been satisfied by the film’s “extensive location work in London”, which would have given him a sense of the city he so longed to visit…

If it was Holmes they saw, then perhaps some of the visuals helped with the writing of Lovecraft’s “The Rats in the Walls”, set in England, which was written the following summer?

Judging from his description of the venue (Lord of a Visible World p.108) it was probably the Allen, a new and very sumptuous 3000-seat independent movie palace that opened in 1921…

Nosferatu, Dr. Mabuse, and Haxan (all 1922) don’t appear to have made it out of Europe at that time. Nosferatu would not reach the screens of New York until 1929.

The House On The Borderland audio book

18 Wednesday Jul 2012

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William Hope Hodgson’s The House On The Borderland (1908), read as an audio book by Wayne June — free in online streaming form. If you’d like to keep it, the book is also available as a download for $10.

Point-of-view in The Colour Out of Space

18 Wednesday Jul 2012

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What appears to be a new academic paper, freely online: “Perceptual and relational deictic shift and the development of ‘atmosphere’ in H.P. Lovecraft’s short story The Colour Out of Space“, by Brian P. Elliston.

Astronomy Cast

16 Monday Jul 2012

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I’ve discovered a superb scientific podcast, Astronomy Cast covering astronomy and space exploration. The show is presented by an outstandingly-fluent academic and a lively magazine editor. They take a single subject per podcast, and discuss it in-depth and with a clear structure. Some of the podcasts in the archive will interest Lovecraftians, such as:

Planet X (detecting unknown planets beyond Pluto).

Future Civilizations.

Astronomy in Science Fiction (special edition at a convention, discussion of TV and movies only).

Podcast takes stock

16 Monday Jul 2012

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After three years of great free listening, the H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast presenters take stock and consider future plans.

I haven’t got around to listening to this latest show yet, but judging from the text comments there will be a new “super show” format via a paid iTunes subscription. Paying is fine, but I have no affection at all for iTunes. I’d say it should be much more open — like Instapaper’s simple set-it-and-forget-it “$3 for 3 months” recurring PayPal debit charge.

Mongrel Vibrations: H.P. Lovecraft’s Weird Ecology of Noise

12 Thursday Jul 2012

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A forthcoming academic book has a chapter on Lovecraft. Chapter 5 of Reverberations : the philosophy, aesthetics and politics of noise (Aug 2012) is:

Dean Lockwood (Lincoln, UK), “Mongrel Vibrations: H.P. Lovecraft’s Weird Ecology of Noise”

Erik Kriek in Spanish

10 Tuesday Jul 2012

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Some lovely examples of artwork from Lovecraft stories, from what appears to be a new Spanish edition of comics adaptations by Erik Kriek. So far as I know, this book is currently only available in Dutch and Spanish.

“I am it, and It is I”: Lovecraft in Providence

08 Sunday Jul 2012

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“I am it, and It is I”: Lovecraft in Providence is an interactive mapping website created by University of Virginia undergraduate Paul Mawye. The site…

“connects short passages from the letters of horror writer H.P. Lovecraft with the geography of […] Rhode Island.”

Thankfully, no Flash is involved. The website instead runs on Neatline, which is a system used to make online projects that display combinations of…

“history, literature, and contemporary space and place”

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