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Monthly Archives: December 2013

Journal of Performance Magic

29 Sunday Dec 2013

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Houdini fans following this blog may be interested in the new academic journal for stage magic, Journal of Performance Magic.

Current Research in Speculative Fiction 2014

28 Saturday Dec 2013

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Current Research in Speculative Fiction 2014, University of Liverpool, UK. 10th March 2014. Deadline for abstracts: 31st January 2014.

Of Evill Sorceries done in New-England

28 Saturday Dec 2013

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New blog post by S.T. Joshi. He notes of his forthcoming Variorum Lovecraft, an edition including all the textual variants in Lovecraft’s fiction, that…

“As an appendix [in Variorum Lovecraft], I will print things like … “Of Evill Sorceries done in New-England, of Daemons of No Humane Shape” — the fragment that August Derleth incorporated (with extensive alterations) into The Lurker at the Threshold (1945). It does not appear as if I or anyone else has ever published this document, in its original form.

The Case of the Tenacious Troll

28 Saturday Dec 2013

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Good news: Leslie Klinger, author of a forthcoming new Annotated Lovecraft, has won a legal ruling against one of the Sherlock Holmes copyright trolls in the USA. I seem to remember that there’s also another troll, though, who also makes claims against USA uses of Holmes and Watson.

Lovecraft was right, part 956

28 Saturday Dec 2013

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A British science project reports hearing the thin monotonous whine of accursed flutes in outer space.

del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities

27 Friday Dec 2013

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Del Toro’s new book Guillermo del Toro Cabinet of Curiosities: My Notebooks, Collections, and Other Obsessions, in the New York Times…

“it also includes pictures of Bleak House, where del Toro works and stores hundreds of artworks, figurines and props. … Most disconcertingly, a lifelike full-size sculpture of H. P. Lovecraft stands in a library, angrily looking up from a book as if you’ve interrupted him”

Added to the Open Lovecraft page

27 Friday Dec 2013

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* Gretchen Marie Kasting (2013), Without contraries there is no progression : scientific speculation and absence in Frankenstein, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and “The Colour out of Space””. (Masters dissertation, University of Texas at Austin)

* Luciana Moura Colucci de Camargo (2013), “Presenca da tradicao da espacialidade gotica nos contos The Tapestried Chambre e The Dreams in the Witch House”, Anais do Silel, Volume 3, Number 1, 2013. (In Spanish. Compares the use of domestic space in Sir Walter Scott’s “The Tapestried Chamber” with Lovecraft’s “Dreams in the Witch House”)

* Luis Vieira (2013), “Historicidade e temporalidade na literatura de horror de Lovecraft”, Epigrafe edition zero, 2013. (In Spanish. “The Call of Cthulhu” as a historical document relating to the literary avant-garde of the mid 1920s)

Fix Robert M. Price’s roof

20 Friday Dec 2013

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Santa may not be able to land on Robert M. Price’s roof this Christmas! He’s started a crowdfunding campaign for urgent home repairs, and would appreciate a small pledge.

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Furry Yuletide

19 Thursday Dec 2013

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“The Cats of Ulthar”, the Xmas tree…

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Merry Yuletide

18 Wednesday Dec 2013

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A merry Yuletide to all readers…

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Credit: OvO

Xmas dinner takeout? 🙂

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Arkham Insiders on Lovecraft and the Munsey magazines

17 Tuesday Dec 2013

Posted by asdjfdlkf in Historical context, Podcasts etc.

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Arkham Insiders podcast, the new German language podcast on Lovecraft, looks at Lovecraft and the Munsey magazines, 1908-1913.

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Finnteresting

16 Monday Dec 2013

Posted by asdjfdlkf in Podcasts etc., REH

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A new podcast interview with Mark Finn, author of the book Blood and Thunder: The Life and Art of Robert E. Howard (Second edition released 2013).

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