14 Tuesday Oct 2014
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
Wot ho! Those dashed Call of Cthulhu gamer chappies have completed their wheeze of publicating a sumptious new Cthulhu Britannica London box-set. What jolly good fun, and the caper’s set in 1920s London, too!
13 Monday Oct 2014
Posted in Scholarly works
* Alejandro Nariman Omidsalar (2014), “Eldritch desires : queer illegibility and proto-cosmicism in Melville’s ‘The Bell-Tower'” (M.A. dissertation for the University of Texas. Combines queer theory with the cosmicist philosophy of Lovecraft to ask new questions about Melville’s treatments of gender and genre in “The Bell-Tower”)
12 Sunday Oct 2014
Posted in Odd scratchings
Lovecraft is deftly name-checked in the opening of the nicely-designed main booklet that welcomes new graduate students to Providence…
A long time ago, the writers Edgar Allen Poe and H.P. Lovecraft wrote of strange surreal realms hidden from common eyes. It was in the nooks and crannies of Providence that they experienced other universes, stranger and more fantastic than our own. While I am not a superstitious man, I find that this place is its own pocket universe, its population of geniuses focusing great energy into strange and fantastic projects. Being here is a unique experience, and I hope you explore all it has to offer.
11 Saturday Oct 2014
Posted in Odd scratchings
Tellers of Weird Tales is a super blog that surveys the lesser-known writers and monsters from the Lovecraft era.
10 Friday Oct 2014
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
Shorts with a Lovecraftian Flavor, a film show at Providence Public Library auditorium, Sunday 26th October 2014.
10 Friday Oct 2014
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
The UCLA Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra is to premiere the Grammy-nominated imagined landscapes: six Lovecraftian elsewhere on the West Coast, on 19th April 2015. It will be paired with Mozart’s “Jupiter”…
Joseph Hallman’s imagined landscapes: six Lovecraftian elsewhere [will be performed by] Armenian cellist Narek Hakhnazaryn, who won the prestigious Tchaikovsky International Competition in 2011.
Picture: Zach Erdmann
09 Thursday Oct 2014
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
4th Stockholm H.P. Lovecraft Festival, which has just been-and-gone, 2nd-5th October at the Stockholm Culture House in Sweden, northern Europe. Nice posters…
09 Thursday Oct 2014
Posted in Scholarly works
The Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention reports that the 2015 theme will be “H.P. Lovecraft’s 125th Birthday”. 17th-19th April 2015.
Also a call for papers, for the Pulp Studies section of the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association (PCA/ACA) National Conference in New Orleans in 2015.
08 Wednesday Oct 2014
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
L.A. Weekly reviews the recent Hollywood stage “Cthulhu”, albeit from a ‘bemused journalist sent by her editor’ perspective. Rather more fannish are the reviews from L.A. Beat and Hollywood Gothique.
08 Wednesday Oct 2014
Posted in Odd scratchings
A big Lovecraft convention, set for 2015 in Germany…
07 Tuesday Oct 2014
Posted in Historical context
Big glass-plate photo from the Library of Congress. Click, then click again, for the biggest version.
07 Tuesday Oct 2014
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
Lovecraft Legacies: Across the Vale of Years, a New England LARP (live-action roleplaying) from 10th-12th October 2014.
