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Monthly Archives: February 2014

More Open Lovecraft

25 Tuesday Feb 2014

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Added to the Open Lovecraft page…

* Eugene Thacker (2012), “Cosmic Pessimism”, Continent, Vol. 2 No. 2, 2012, pp. 66–75. (Lovecraftian philosophy).

* Benjamin Noys (2005), “A Gothic Sinthome? The Case of H.P. Lovecraft”, presented at the conference ‘Gothic Remains: Symptoms of the Modern’, University of Sussex, December 2005. (Examines the possibilites for using Lacan to try to understand Lovecraft. Lacan’s sinthome is a unanalyzable and unspeakable ‘symptom’ of meaning that lies just outside the semiotic triangle, but which might be apprehended via the unconscious in moments of jouissance or sublime awe).

* Michael Umbricht (2013), “Cosmic Inspiration: Lovecraft’s Astronomical Influences” (Nicely illustrated academic Powerpoint presentation from Ladd Observatory at Brown University, as part of NecronomiCon 2013. Illustrates the influence of the Ladd Observatory on Lovecraft’s early life).

La Estela de Luveh-Kerapt

25 Tuesday Feb 2014

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Spanish Lovecraft ‘zine, La Estela de Luveh-Kerapt (circa 2007), seems to have four issues online as PDFs, with one special English issue.

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AirPenguins

24 Monday Feb 2014

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What happens when you cross a “Mountains of Madness” penguin with a flying shoggoth? Air Penguins, perhaps…

“the engineers from Festo have created artificial penguins and have taught them “autonomous flight in the sea of air”. For this purpose, control and regulating technology had to be further developed into self-regulating biomechatronic systems…”

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Caspar David Freidrich visits Innsmouth

23 Sunday Feb 2014

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If Caspar David Freidrich had visited Innsmouth…

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More Open Lovecraft

23 Sunday Feb 2014

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Added to the Open Lovecraft page:

* Robert C. Schachel (2006). “The aeon-silent maze of unhuman masonry: Lovecraft’s other places”. (Substantial chapter in the PhD thesis Textual Projections: The Emergence of a Postcolonial Gothic, for the University of Florida, 2006).

* Elena Glasberg (2008), “Who Goes There? Science, fiction, and belonging in Antarctica”, Journal of Historical Geography, 34, 2008, pp. 639–657. (Only mentions Poe and Lovecraft in passing. It does, however, open with a good outline of the pre-war ideological developments in ‘the Byrd view’ of Antarctica between “At The Mountains of Madness” (1931) and “Who Goes There?” (1938), which may be relevant to those considering the reception of “Mountains” in the 1930s and 40s).

* Amy Ireland (2013), “Noise: An Ontology of the Avant-garde”. (Paper for the 2013 conference ‘Modern Soundscapes’ run the Australasian Association of Literature / Centre for Modernism Studies. Examines sound/noise in “At The Mountains of Madness” in order to weigh the claims of two philosophers, Kant and Nick Land, and from this develops ideas about the 20th century avant-garde’s use of noise as an “exaltation of the void and the melting of unstable frontiers”).

More Open Lovecraft

22 Saturday Feb 2014

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* Sonja M. Karlas (2013). Cosmic horror, gothic body and the text: H. P. Lovecraft’s “The Shadow Over Innsmouth”. (Polished paper written as part of a Masters degree. Version of the same paper was later published in Journal for Languages and Literatures of the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sadu, Vol.3, No.3, 2013).

* Rui Lopes (2011), “O interprete estupido”, Dos Algarves, No. 20, 2011. (In Spanish. Examines literary characters reacting to strange things — as depicted by Lovecraft, Musil, Pitkin, and Poe).

* Alcebiades Diniz Miguel (2008), “A teratologia multipla: Robert Bloch e o seu bestiario”, Arquivo Maaravi: Revista Digital de Estudos Judaicos da UFMG, Vol. 2, No. 3, 2008. (In Brazilian Portugese. Appears to be an examination of Lovecraft’s claim that certain peoples and cultures were more suited than others to create fantastic supernatural works. Part of a special issue on Kabala: the weird and magical in Jewish cultural heritage).

Letters to Elizabeth Toldridge & Anne Tillery Renshaw

22 Saturday Feb 2014

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The Hippocampus Press book H. P. Lovecraft: Letters to Elizabeth Toldridge & Anne Tillery Renshaw (annotated) appears to be shipping now. I mentioned it here last May, when it was set for shipping in August. But it was delayed. Now Wilum Pugmire has a print copy to show on camera, and the Hippocampus Press page for the book has it as available for order.

credentialAbove: cover of The Credential, an amateur magazine Lovecraft co-edited with Renshaw from early 1919.

Organs Everywhere #3

22 Saturday Feb 2014

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Organs Everywhere has a special issue on Cyborgs and Monsters, including Ben Woodard…

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More Open Lovecraft

22 Saturday Feb 2014

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* Van Leavenworth (2010), “Reading with Awe and Playing with Terror: Labyrinths in Selected Stories by H.P. Lovecraft and Michael S. Gentry’s Anchorhead“, chapter two in The Gothic in Contemporary Interactive Fictions: Umea Studies in Language and Literature 11, 2010.

* Modesto Gomez Alonso (2012), “H.P. Lovecraft: creencia estetica y asentimiento intelectual”, Taula: quaderns de pensament, Vol. 44, 2012. (In Spanish. Examines the epistemological and aesthetic grounds for Lovecraft’s theory of cosmic horror).

* Vivian Ralickas (2006), “Abjection, sublimity, and the question of the unpresentable in Poe, Baudelaire, and Lovecraft”. (Extract from a PhD thesis at the University of Toronto).

The Brain in the Jar… or not

22 Saturday Feb 2014

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New on American Dialectic journal, “Why We Aren’t and Couldn’t Be Brains in Vats”…

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It rises! Cthulhu in World Mythology

21 Friday Feb 2014

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The Amazon Kindle ereader version of the new book Cthulhu in World Mythology is now available via Amazon.com.

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‘Twixt Dog and Wolf

20 Thursday Feb 2014

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Possibly the rarest book collection of short stories in the weird macabre is Twixt Dog and Wolf (1901) by Charles Francis Keary. The book is known to have influenced James Joyce’s famous Dubliners (1905), as evidenced in a letter from Joyce dated 24th September 1905 (Letters of James Joyce, Vol. 2, p. 111).

From the 1917 Times obituary…

   “a series of short sketches in the weird and macabre, Twixt Dog and Wolf (1901), excellently done.”

188 pages, and seemingly long ago snapped up and secreted away from the world in the libraries of Joyce scholars. There’s one copy in the British Library, and that seems to be all.

The title presumably not from werewolves, but rather from…

   “that dim and deceitful hour “‘twixt dog and wolf”, as the French have it, when shadows and objects are intermingled and outlines lost. (Egerton Castle, Incomparable Bellairs, 1922).

Reviews in the Pall Mall Gazette, 10th Dec 1901, and a pro-realist one in the Athenaeum, 25th Jan 1902…

Mr. C. F. KEARY has broken new ground in the volume of fantasies entitled ‘Twixt Dog and Wolf (Brimley Johnson). ‘Elizabeth’, the longest, is a tale of diablerie and enchantment — a vanishing castle, a witch, unearthly hounds and hunters, the screech-owl that was once wicked Hilda, a snake that comes and goes on the devil’s errand with a piece of gold in its mouth, and much more to the same purpose — a good story of its kind, but the effect is marred by a certain incoherence and want of grip in the telling. We have nothing but praise for ‘The Four Students’ of Paris, who jocularly enter into a mystic compact on Christmas Eve, 1787, scratching a pentacle on the floor with a rusty iron nail, exchanging drops of blood pricked from their arms, and shouting a sonorous invocation to the spirits, Ja, Pa, Asmodai, Aleph, Beleph, Adonai, &c. What happens in consequence is by no means jocular; the young men leave their garret in the Rue Pot-de-Fer, and pass under the shadow of the guillotine. This is a fantasy of flesh and blood, in every sense, and is far superior, we think, to the somewhat conventional super-naturalism and the ingenious, but slightly morbid allegories which form the staple of the book. Mr. Keary’s writing is nearly always distinguished, alike in the choice of words and in their arrangement; if he does not entirely satisfy us, we must look deeper. The truth seems to be that his imagination, fine as it is, is not powerful enough to produce a clear and harmonious impression of resemblance when it seeks to create a world for itself; its ideas are imperfectly realised, and the reader, though charmed and interested, feels a vague disappointment, which he cannot immediately account for. Mr. Keary has already shown that he is capable of excellent work, and in some respects this volume is equal to anything he has done. But he has aimed too high and in the wrong direction. Dreams, after all, are none the worse for being founded on fact. (Athenaeum, 25th Jan 1902)

If anyone does happen to get a copy, I’d welcome hearing if any of the stories are set in Stoke-on-Trent or the surrounding Potteries / North Staffordshire area, as Keary’s novel The Mount is. Keary was from Stoke-on-Trent.

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