07 Tuesday Jan 2014
Posted in Podcasts etc.
Courtesy of yog-sothoth.com, two recordings of panels from the World Fantasy Convention 2013, Brighton, UK. Sign-ins to the site are required…
* When did H.P. Lovecraft become a franchise? With Steve Saffel (moderator) + Martin Andersson, Ramsey Campbell, S.T. Joshi, Darrell Schweitzer, and Charles Stross.
* Arthur Machen, H.P. Lovecraft and the development of the weird tale. With S.T. Joshi (moderator) + Nina Allan, Simon Bestwick, Jesus Canadas, John Llewellyn Probert, and Darrell Schweitzer.
04 Saturday Jan 2014
Posted in New books, Scholarly works
A new edition of the Italian language scholarly journal Studi Lovecraftiani is out.
My translation of the contents list:
* Thematic and diachronic analysis : The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath and At the Mountains of Madness
* From the imaginary architecture of otherness: the perception of the world in the work of H.P. Lovecraft
* Lovecraft and the dinosaur egg [must refer to that controversy he stirred over the theme of a published story]
* Plants of Dr. Cinderella : parallels between Gustav Meyrink and H.P. Lovecraft
* Lovecraft and Physics
* Carcosa
* Dark castles, crypts and monsters : Lovecraft in Quake [the popular videogame]
* The Key and the Abyss : a Jungian reading of the works of Howard Phillips Lovecraft
“The Well of the Ancients” by H.P. Lovecraft [?]
* “Gaze fixedly into the red eye of your god!” Or, the reluctant messiah of Rivermouth : a commentary on the film Cthulhu”
* Review
* The Library of the Lovecraftian scholar : notifications for a critical bibliography
* Notes on books, essays and articles in the press related to HPL, 2010-2013