Ever wondered what Erich Zann’s music sounded like? Alexey Voytenko’s “The Music of Erich Zann” for violin solo (2009).
Picture: Anders Zorn, “Hins Anders” (1904).
Erich Zann’s music
28 Sunday Sep 2014
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
Monthly Archives: September 2014
Back from Bodrahahn
27 Saturday Sep 2014
Posted in Historical context
Some lucky bidder snagged this Lovecraft letter for $600. And the auctioneers kindly gave the world a nice clear scan, large enough to read.
The desert refered to is Dunsany’s… “There lie seven deserts beyond Bodrahahn, which is the city of the caravans end. None goeth beyond.”
Lovecraft Festival
26 Friday Sep 2014
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
Hot on the heels of the Lovecraft Film Festival, comes what is effectively a proto Lovecraft Theatre Festival. The 6th Annual H.P. Lovecraft Festival promises ten performances of various tales in the East Village, Manhattan, New York City.
Oct 2 – The shadow over Innsmouth / The moon pool
Oct 3 – The Dunwich horror / The statement of Randolph Carter
Oct 9 – The shadow over Innsmouth/ The beast in the cave
Oct 10 – From beyond / The call of cthulhu/ The beast in the cave
Oct 11 – The shadow over innsmouth / The moon pool
Oct 12 – The Dunwich horror/ Dagon
Topographical map of Providence, 1935
25 Thursday Sep 2014
Posted in Historical context, Maps
Large scan of a large-scale USGS topographical map of Providence, 1935, courtesy of the University of Texas.
“I shall try to arrange to have you hear the record I got…”
24 Wednesday Sep 2014
Posted in Films & trailers
A Kickstarter to make the full version of the feature documentary Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown available again. It’s gone out-of-print, and the discs sells for silly prices used due to…
the nearly 70 minutes of extra interviews only found on those old discs.
The Wyrd guys are sure to get funded, but I think they missed a trick in not offering an affordable $7 donation level — to get just the extra 70 minutes in audio .mp3 format.
Poe as Cosmologist
23 Tuesday Sep 2014
Posted in Historical context
Edgar Allan Poe, Part-Time Cosmologist. He came up with…
a spookily intuitive description of the Big Bang theory more than 70 years before astrophysicists came up with the idea [and] “Eureka” [also] goes on to propose that all the scattered and blown-apart atoms of the universe are now rushing together again.
Gato-Chico
23 Tuesday Sep 2014
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
“Whispers in the Darkness” (2010) by Gato-Chico. Photoshop and stock. With some suitably refined typography and some cropping at the top and bottom, this would make someone a fine book cover.
A Look Behind the Derleth Mythos – revised paperback
23 Tuesday Sep 2014
Posted in New books, Scholarly works
Newly arrived on Amazon, the revised paperback of A Look Behind the Derleth Mythos: Origins of the Cthulhu Mythos
dropping much of the academic apparatus he had in the hardback version — page numbers for quotes in the text and all that needless crap
So I suppose the first edition is still the one that scholars will want, errors and all, since at least it has the “needless crap” that means that all the quotes can actually be tracked back to a source page. Do any readers know if Haefele ever issued erratum pages for his first edition?
H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival
22 Monday Sep 2014
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
Lovecraftian filmic weirdness over in California, 26th-28th September, with the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival.
Some forthcoming conferences in 2015
21 Sunday Sep 2014
Posted in Scholarly works
Some academic conferences already announced for 2015, of relevance to H.P. Lovecraft…
* Gothic Spaces: Boundaries, Mergence, Liminalities, 21st-22nd January 2015, Sydney, Australia.
“the meaning and impact of Gothic spaces not only in aesthetic terms, but also the physical, psychological, and the cultural”
* Monstrous Geographies: places and spaces of monstrosity, 22nd-24th March 2015, Lisbon, Portugal.
“the relationship between the monstrous and the geographic”
* 2nd Global Conference on Letters and Letter Writing, 22nd-24th March 2015, Lisbon, Portugal.
Very broad, seems to be open to anything on letters and correspondence circles.
* “The Once and Future Antiquity: Classical Traditions in Science Fiction and Fantasy” conference, Seattle, 27th-29th March 2015.
“What roles has classical antiquity played in visions of the future, the fantastic, the speculative, the might-have-been?”
* Enchanted Edwardians, 30th-31st March 2015, Bristol, England.
“…the ways in which the [British] Edwardians understood and employed the idea of the enchanted, the haunted and the supernatural.”
* Local Color Outside the Lines: American Literary Regionalism’s ‘Others’ (Northeast Modern Literature Assoc.), 30th April 2015, Toronto, Canada.
“This panel seeks papers that address [USA] literary regionalism’s ‘others’ construed narrowly or broadly”.
Perfect in pink
21 Sunday Sep 2014
Posted in New books, Scholarly works
Lovecraft Annual No. 8, 2014 looks about ready to ship, complete with a fab…
Pugmire Pink, [cover which] is dedicated to our steadfast friend W.H. Pugmire.
Lovecraft as Philosopher
20 Saturday Sep 2014
Posted in Scholarly works
Franz Rottensteiner’s “Lovecraft as Philosopher” a dismissive review of S.T. Joshi’s The Decline of the West in Science Fiction Studies, March 1992. And Joshi’s lengthy demolition of the review in the November 1992 issue. Followed by slight whimpering noises from Rottensteiner.