09 Tuesday Jul 2013
Posted in Films & trailers
del Toro’s Pacific Rim getting excellent reviews = slight uptick in the chances of a big-budget movie of At The Mountains of Madness. Although his next projects seem to be the SF classic Slaughterhouse-Five, and Frankenstein.
On enjoying Pacific Rim, note that the 12 years prior to the movie’s events are laid out in the 120-page comic-book prequel Pacific Rim: Tales From Year Zero, penned by the movie’s scriptwriter.
07 Sunday Jul 2013
Posted in Scholarly works
The University of Hamburg, in Germany, has a set of free video lectures: A Virtual Introduction to Science Fiction in English.
06 Saturday Jul 2013
Posted in Lovecraftian places
Ball’s Pyramid, Pacific Ocean.
Krubera Cave, the Arabika Massif, Georgia.
Temple of Aphaia on Aegina, Greece.
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, USA.
Woods of Coylumbridge, Scotland.
Moss mounds, high in the mountains of Peru.
Puente del Inca, Argentina.
Any Ancient Egyptian ruins still home to th kittehs of Ulthar.
06 Saturday Jul 2013
Posted in Podcasts etc.
A new 30 minute BBC Radio documentary on Arthur Machen. Also a BBC news feature about Machen and the psychogeography of London.
06 Saturday Jul 2013
Posted in Scholarly works
Added to the Open Lovecraft page:
* S.T. Joshi (2012), “Poe, Lovecraft, and the Revolution in Weird Fiction”. (Transcript of a lecture given at the Ninth Annual Commemoration Program of the Poe Society, 7th October 2012).
06 Saturday Jul 2013
Posted in Podcasts etc., Scholarly works
A conference paper as-mp3 by David Farnell, “Unlikely Utopians: Ecotopian Dreaming in H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Shadow over Innsmouth” and Octavia Butler’s Lilith’s Brood”, delivered at the 2010 ‘Utopia, Dystopia and Catastrophe’ conference in Australia.
All the .mp3 files of talks from this conference are online. One that caught my eye was: Geographies of Hope: The Desire for Place in Californian Science Fiction which might be of interest to those researching weird fiction in California.
05 Friday Jul 2013
Posted in NecronomiCon 2013
NecronomiCon 2013 day-by-day schedule.
05 Friday Jul 2013
Posted in New books
The second edition paperback of The Ancient Track: The Complete Poetical Work of H. P. Lovecraft is now available for pre-order from Hippocampus. It weighs in at over 600 pages, and has a shipping date of August 2013. The price is currently discounted by 10%, to $28.80.
04 Thursday Jul 2013
Posted in Unnamable
Used Linkbot to do a double-pass check and repair of all Web links on this blog’s Lovecraft on the Web directory.
04 Thursday Jul 2013
Posted in Scholarly works
Used Linkbot to do a double-pass check and repair of all Web links on this blog’s Open Lovecraft page.
04 Thursday Jul 2013
Posted in Scholarly works
Interesting conference location in 2014. the Island Dynamics academic network presents Folk Belief and Traditions of the Supernatural: Experience, Place, Ritual, and Narrative, set for late March 2014 in… “remote and windswept cottages on the island of Unst” in the Shetland Islands, in the bleak far north of Britain. It’s followed by the probably-slightly-more-comfy The Supernatural in Literature and Film conference from 29th—31st March 2014, in Lerwick, the capital of the Shetland Islands. Yes, they have broadband — a new £8m undersea fibre-optic cable linked them to the mainland in late 2012.
04 Thursday Jul 2013
Posted in Historical context
Snagged from an eBay auction just ended at $495… a Lovecraft postcard from New Orleans, on 6th June 1932, to Walter J. Coates of The Driftwind Press…
“Greetings! At the far end of one of my annual travel outbursts, & enjoying every minute of it! Shenandoah Valley…. Tennessee…. old Father Mississippi (seen by me for the first time)…. Vicksburg…. Natchez…. & now ancient New Orleans, paradise of the architect and antiquarian. Right in the same class with Charleston & Quebec! Here for over a week, then Mobile, Ala. Have a very faint hope of getting to Charleston. Regards — & hope that spring is getting around to the arctic regions at last! HPL”
