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Monthly Archives: August 2014

Alan Moore On Lovecraft and Providence

31 Sunday Aug 2014

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“All About Alienation: Alan Moore On Lovecraft and Providence“, in The Quietus, the modern online equivalent of the 1980s NME…

As an extension of their recent interview, Nick Talbot speaks to Alan Moore about the language and philosophy of H.P. Lovecraft and his upcoming ten-part Cthulhu Mythos [comic-book] work Providence

Here’s Moore on Lovecraft scholarship. I think he has in mind the clear straightforward approach of Joshi…

Providence is […] set in 1919, or at least the first ten issues are, and I have researched the hell out of it. But one of the things I’ve realised, I’ve got about two shelves of just Lovecraft criticism — Weird Realism: Lovecraft and Philosophy; H.P. Lovecraft: The Decline of the West — and it’s changed my opinion of literary criticism […] reading these pieces [of Lovecraftian scholarship] has completely changed my [inverted snobbery regarding establishment academic litcrit language]. Not about all of them, some of them are basically saying very little in as many words as possible, but that is not a fair characterisation of a lot of them.

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“The French have done without it for a long time”

31 Sunday Aug 2014

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Lovecraft’s Commonplace Book of story and plot ideas, translated into French.

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Crafting Cthulhu

31 Sunday Aug 2014

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Echo Station muses on what he wants in a Cthulhu idol…

To sum up, my ideal Cthulhu idol would have the following characteristics:

* stylized
* looms outward, or otherwise aggressively posed
* big grabby unfinished-looking wings, possibly posed asymmetrically
* spider-like eyes, but probably not too regular in numbers or symmetry
* extremities not clearly arms or flippers or whatever, but some horrible combination, and skinny rather than [body-builder] buff
* inhuman (probably covered by all of the above)
* intelligent
* menacing

More Home Brew

30 Saturday Aug 2014

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More covers from Home Brew. Lovecraft wrote the serial ‘shockers’ “The Lurking Fear” and “Herbert West – Reanimator” for the magazine, at the request of the editor.

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Nuclear Lovecraft

30 Saturday Aug 2014

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The young Lovecraft goes nuclear…

Radio-activity interested me enough to cause me to obtain a spinthariscope — containing, of course, a minute quantity of radioactive matter.” (Letter to Galpin, 29th August 1918, recalling his boyhood)

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It may have been tiny but it was visible evidence of a discovery that lifted a great weight of despair, from the minds those who had grown up during the Victorian era. I refer to the once prevalent scientific idea of the ‘inevitable’ heat-death of the sun (by some calculations, as soon as in 3,000 years or so). The following quote from 1906 shows that Lovecraft had used the discovery of radium (radioactivity) to shrug off this erroneous model of how the sun worked…

“To this, it must be said that the great body’s [the sun’s] size precludes its cooling at any time within millions of years, and the discovery of an element called “Radium” in its constitution lengthens the epoch to billions, so it may be safely believed that for many generations the sun will continue to exist as a great donor of light and heat.” (The sixteen year old Lovecraft, writing in 1906)

One can see the older ideas about the death of the sun — albeit not in as short a scale as 3,000 years — most clearly in Wells’s famous The Time Machine (1895) in its various forms. On the influence of this theory on Wells and his generation, see Gillian Beer’s “‘The Death of the Sun’: Victorian Solar Physics and Solar Myth'”, in the book Open Fields: Science in Cultural Encounter.


Something vaguely similar pops up in a 1933 Lovecraft dream-story sent in a letter to Dwyer…

“that thing on the table — the thing that looks like a match-box” … “The small object on the table fascinated me intensely. I seemed to know what to do with it, for I drew a pocket electric light — or what looked like one — out of my pocket and nervously tested its flashes. The light was not white but violet, and seemed less like true light than like some radioactive bombardment. […] Finally I summoned up courage and propped the small object up on the table against a book — then turned the rays of the peculiar violet light upon it. The light seemed now to be more like a rain of hail or small violet particles than like a continuous beam. As the particles struck the glassy surface at the center of the strange device, they seemed to produce a crackling noise like the sputtering of a vacuum tube through which sparks are passed. The dark glassy surface displayed a pinkish glow, and a vague white shape seemed to be taking form at its center. Then I noticed that I was not alone in the room — and put the ray-projector back in my pocket.” (from Lovecraft’s “The Evil Clergyman”, Fall 1933)

NecronomiCon 2013: Providence Art Club lecture

29 Friday Aug 2014

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Not linked here until now, NecronomiCon 2013: Providence Art Club lecture and discussion with Henry L. P. Beckwith…

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVv67JwvxI8?rel=0&w=560&h=315]

Still looking for MP3 or video recordings of the following core panels…

HPL: A LIFE

LOVECRAFT’S LITERARY INFLUENCES

HPL ALL-STARS [scholars]

LOVECRAFT’S ESSAYS & LETTERS

LOVECRAFT’S NEW ENGLAND: HISTORY AND SOCIETY

Lovecraft was right: part 534

29 Friday Aug 2014

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Visualise the 4th dimension, with this handy attic-sized LED-light hypercube, with programmed dimension-revealing patterns…

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We shall see these things, and other things which no breathing creature has yet seen. We shall overleap time, space, and dimensions, and without bodily motion peer to the bottom of creation.” [said Tillinghast] … We entered the laboratory in the attic, and I observed that detestable electrical machine, glowing with a sickly, sinister violet luminosity.” (H.P. Lovecraft, “From Beyond”)

Definitely one for the Art Room at NecronomiCon 2015.

Casey Love

28 Thursday Aug 2014

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Casey Love (Black Heart Models) will be bringing a “bust finishing class” to NecronomiCon 2015 in August 2015. Here’s one of his latest sculpts, “Tormented” (2014)…

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Real modelling clay, apparently — not Zbrush + 3D printing.

Hive.co.uk

27 Wednesday Aug 2014

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I’ve just been looking at Hive.co.uk in the UK. Hive has many of the books that Amazon offers, sometimes cheaper(!), and with free shipping to your local independent bookshop for in-person collection. They have all the print-on-demand Hippocampus Press titles, and can accept PayPal. Sadly they don’t offer a ‘public gifting’ Wish List, though, or indeed any Wish List facility at all. But should you be fed up with useless couriers or Parcelfarce, they might be worth a look — provided you still have an independent bookshop nearby from which to collect your eldritch treasures.

Added to Open Lovecraft

27 Wednesday Aug 2014

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* Stefan Helmreich and Sophia Roosth (2010), “Life Forms: a keyword entry”, Representations 112, Fall 2010. (Detailed discussion of the history of the changing conception of the term ‘lifeforms’, including a discussion of scientific sources which strongly influenced Lovecraft)

* John J. Miller (2014), “Master of Modern Horror”, Claremont Review, Vol. XIV, Number 2, Spring 2014. (Long review essay of three volumes of Lovecraft’s fiction)

Dark Adventure Radio Theatre: Imprisoned with the Pharaohs

27 Wednesday Aug 2014

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Dark Adventure Radio Theatre: Imprisoned with the Pharaohs audio dramatisation CD, with…

a huge cast of professional actors, exciting sound effects and thrilling original music

Pre-ordering now, shipping early October.

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Added to Open Lovecraft

26 Tuesday Aug 2014

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* Kenneth W. Faig, Jr. and David Haden (2014), The Providence Amateur Press Club, 1914-1916, Moshassuck Press and Burslem Books. (Second edition, revised and with new illustrations)

* Benjamin Noys (2007), “The Lovecraft Event” (Compares… “the rupture Lovecraft inflicts on the Gothic and weird fiction with the rupture Lacan inflicts on psychoanalysis and the stabilisation of his own earlier teaching”, in terms of the ability to form a fiction congruent with history and then to align it with the realities and trajectories of the new modernity of the 1920s)

* Mark Fisher (2007), Lovecraft and the Weird: Part I and Part II (Reflections on the Lovecraft: Weird Realism event at Goldsmiths University, London, 2007)

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