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More on the Barlow-Lovecraft meeting

03 Wednesday Nov 2021

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I find that the Barlow-Lovecraft meeting in Florida has been subject to at least one artistic rendering, on the cover of Lovecraft Studies #42-43. The style suggests it must be by Jason Eckhardt. Tentaclii readers will recall my several recent posts on the likely terminus in the centre of De Land.

This Autumn 2001 issue also featured the article “H.P. Lovecraft in Florida,” by Stephen J. Jordan.

A Voyage to Sfanomoë

03 Wednesday Nov 2021

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Clark Ashton Smith’s “A Voyage to Sfanomoë” (Weird Tales, August 1931) popped up in a new audio reading on YouTube. Not great audio quality, it has to be said. But it sent me in search of the full text for text-to-speech (TTS) with the Balabolka software.

The full text for “Voyage” is to be found at Eldritch Dark and the Weird Tales scans at Archive.org. The R’lyeh Tribune has a Poseidonis page which outlines how it fits alongside similar tales from Smith.

The finding of the audio reading also made me aware of the Ocean Star page Clark Ashton Smith: connections to the Cthulhu Mythos, in which the connections with Lovecraft’s Mythos are named and tabulated by story.


Update: There’s now a French translation audiobook reading on YouTube, “Voyage De Sfanomoë”.

Ray Bradbury Now and Forever

02 Tuesday Nov 2021

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“Ray Bradbury fan donates lifelong collection to University of South Carolina” and this is now accessible…

The Anne Farr Hardin Collection of Ray Bradbury Books, Fanzines, Pulps, Magazines, Correspondence, Photographs, Memorabilia, and Ephemera is now accessible to UofSC students, faculty, staff and visiting researchers by appointment with the Irvin Department.

There’s also an online exhibition version of the collection highlights, Ray Bradbury Now and Forever.

The “Ray Bradbury fan donates…” link is more than a press release, and is a good read in its own right.

Kuttner’s letters to Weird Tales

02 Tuesday Nov 2021

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Dark Worlds Quarterly has a fine new illustrated timeline of Henry Kuttner’s Fan Letters to Weird Tales.

Talking of Weird Tales, S.T. Joshi’s Blog has updated. Among other items he brings news of a forthcoming collected stories of Robert Barbour Johnson, an author best known for his Lovecraftian ‘in the subways’ Weird Tales story “Far Below” (1939). I recall there’s already been at least one such collection, though perhaps not complete? The new book will also collect some of Johnson’s essays.

Save Ancient Studies Alliance podcast

01 Monday Nov 2021

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The Save Ancient Studies Alliance (SASA) host ‘Lovecraft’ with S.T. Joshi, in a new podcast. The aim was to… “explore how the ancient world inspired the work of horror author H.P. Lovecraft”.

Happy Halloween

31 Sunday Oct 2021

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Happy Halloween. May all your scares be little ones.

Quinn’s day-job

30 Saturday Oct 2021

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A Lovecraft letter reveals an item I don’t think I’ve ever noted elsewhere. Lovecraft states that his Weird Tales rival, Seabury Quinn, held a day-job as the Editor of The Casket. This being the twice-monthly trade journal for undertakers. Bacon’s Publicity Manual states of the title in 1933… “Goes to funeral directors and embalmers; circulation 8,900.”

Famous Fantastic Mysteries complete

30 Saturday Oct 2021

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Newly arrived at Abe Books, Famous Fantastic Mysteries (Complete 81 issues bound in 19 hardcover volumes). Rather expensive. But it may interest a Bitcoin millionaire or someone who wants a good archival copy of the complete run for their deep storage bunker in Antarctica.

‘Picture postals’ from Lovecraft: the entrance to the Brooklyn Public Library

29 Friday Oct 2021

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In 1941 Brooklyn unveiled a new Public Library, complete with an immense and somewhat Lovecraftian front door.

Psycho-geographers might imagine it as a ‘trace’ left by Lovecraft’s intensity in Brooklyn, become manifest in the ever-changing architecture of the city. Sadly there appear to be no pictures of it on a misty night in the early 1940s. But I imagine that there could have been a ‘shiver of the eerie’, if one had to pass through this portal on a sepulchral evening when no-one else was around.

I also wonder if it might have featured as a location in the imaginative fiction of the 1960s? It seems the sort of thing which might have been woven into a story set in Brooklyn.

Did Lovecraft ever see the designs for this doorway, as published in the weekend papers, shortly before his death? Perhaps to chuckle knowingly and lightly tap the page? We can’t know unless someone can point to a comment made in a late letter, but the timing seems right and we know he was an avid newspaper reader.

NY Urbanism‘s short article on the early history of this Brooklyn Public Library Central Branch usefully gives the basic year-dates, stating that…

In 1935 the library scrapped Almirall’s project [which had become a hopeless ‘political football’] and brought in new architects, Githens and Keally, who stripped the partially completed structure of its ornament, instead proposing to build a more modern building. The new design was completed in 1941 and featured an enormous central entrance glittered with gold surrounded by a blank, unadorned limestone facade.

High Caliber

28 Thursday Oct 2021

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Found, another series of H.P. Lovecraft comics adaptations of which I was previously unaware. Previews reports it has now been mostly reprinted in paper by Caliber, and that “The Statement of Randolph Carter” is being added to the series soon. The latter is said to be re-set in the modern age.

I had of course been aware of Caliber’s two volume Lovecraft’s Worlds anthology collection, seen below. It’s been out ages and I’m fairly sure I’ve even interviewed one of the artists.

But despite my occasional perusing of Previews I was not aware that they’d been adding to the series. For instance, a third volume of Lovecraft’s Worlds in 2018.

Then there’s H.P. Lovecraft: The Early Stories. Not a comic but a heavily illustrated edition using Joshi’s texts and with an introduction by him.

And a The Shadow Over Innsmouth adaptation in 80 pages.

There are other interesting looking indie titles at Caliber, of the sort you’ll never hear about via the corporate press. Such as a 165-page Arthur: King of Britain.

This focuses on how Arthur was originally understood in the 12th century…

From veteran comic writer/artist Michael Fraley comes this history of the famous and legendary character known as King Arthur. This fully illustrated comic series and collected graphic novel is faithfully based on the original adventure of Arthur as it was written by Geoffrey of Monmouth in the 12th century. Geoffrey’s work is considered one of the most important books of the medieval period, and served as the skeletal framework from which all Arthurian tales have since been based.

Arthur: King of Britain is available as a five-book £10 Kindle series on Amazon.

Talking of comics, I’m pleased to see one of my Digital Art Live colleagues on the cover of the latest ICC Magazine #16, and with an interview inside.

Tolkien and Lovecraft

27 Wednesday Oct 2021

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I get the vague impression, wafted to me over the luminiferous aether, that at least one Lovecraftian may be in the process of writing a comparative book about the approaches taken by Tolkien and Lovecraft. And perhaps also the ‘response to the times’. If that’s the case, knowing a bit about both authors, I’d be happy to read through a pre-publication near-final draft and provide a set of comments for the author’s use.

The new Tentaclii is starting to be indexed

27 Wednesday Oct 2021

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DuckDuckGo, Bing and Yandex now have the new Tentaclii showing up in search. Google Search is still lagging at present. It usually takes them two or three weeks to pick up a ‘new’ blog.

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