More Open Lovecraft

25 Saturday Jan 2014

* Ben Woodard (2013), On an Ungrounded Earth: towards a new geophilosophy. Punctum Books, 2013. (Contemporary Lovecraftian philosophy).

* Luana Ferreira de Freitas (2011), “Insanidade fantastica”, Fragmentos July-Dec 2011, Vol.22 No.2, pp. 87-92. (Discusses insanity in fantasy literature, via hallucination in E.A. Poe and compulsion in H.P. Lovecraft. Brazilian Portuguese, with English abstract).

* Marco Antonio Rivera Gutierrez (2011), “Horror y figuratividad: la semiotica del espacio en el relato de terror”. (Approximate translation of title: “Horror and figuration: a semiotics for the spatialisation of terror”. In Spanish with English abstract).

* Marco Antonio Rivera Gutierrez (2011), “”The Outsider”, un Sujeto sin Destinador: analisis de las estructuras semionarrativas de superficiedesde la semiotica narrativa estandar”. (Semiotic analysis of the structual logic of “The Outsider”. In Spanish with English abstract).

More Open Lovecraft

24 Friday Jan 2014

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* Jon Cogburn and Mark Allan Ohm (2013), “Actual Qualities of Imaginative Things: notes towards an object oriented literary theory” (Contemporary Lovecraftian philosophy).

* Mary Corr (2013), “Dr. Franklin C. Clark: early mentor to H.P. Lovecraft — the master of ‘weird tales’”, Rhode Island Medical Journal, December 2013, pp. 73-74. (Factually correct, but only a short magazine ‘filler’ article).

* Milosz Wisniewski (2013), “Swiat Howarda Philipsa Lovecrafta w ujeciu religioznawczym”, Humaniora: Czasopismo Internetowe, No.1, 2013, pp. 99–105. (In Polish, with English abstract. Applies the theories of Romanian researcher Mircea Eliade to Lovecraft’s mythology).

Making of… Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown

24 Friday Jan 2014

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A good .mp3 interview with the maker of the feature documentary Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown …

Sadly the DVD appears to have gone out of print, and — probably because there’s an extra 70 minutes of interview out-takes on the disc — it now sells for silly prices.

Lovecraft photo

24 Friday Jan 2014

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Don’t think I’d seen this photograph before: Lovecraft standing at one side of the Van Wickle Gates of Brown University, allegedly 9th April 1922.

Astronomy Cast #330

23 Thursday Jan 2014

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The excellent Astronomy Cast podcast has a special edition on Arthur C. Clarke, Lovecraft fan and expert purveyor of cosmic and transcosmic ideas. Maybe they could also do one on Lovecraft, as an astronomer who also used astronomy in his fiction?

The Bowery Boys podcasts

22 Wednesday Jan 2014

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The Bowery Boys have a new podcast on New York history, which takes a look at a topic Lovecraft was intimately familiar with: Green-wood Cemetery in New York City. An older podcast from them is on The British Invasion, 1776, another topic on which Lovecraft knew the minutest details. These two are somewhat linked, as the first shooting engagement in 1776 was on Martense Lane, now known as Border Avenue, which borders Green-wood Cemetery on the southern side. The lane was named after the Martense family, among whom at the very first in America there was a Jan Martense and also a Gerrit Martense — names that both occur in Lovecraft’s “The Lurking Fear”.

Art by Graham Turner

Budget Henry S. Whitehead anthology

22 Wednesday Jan 2014

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The work of Lovecraft’s friend Henry S. Whitehead, back in print via a chunky paperback anthology from Wordsworth. At Wordsworth’s usual amazingly low price, which makes a nice change from seeing a $70 price tag on such things.

Paperback | Kindle ebook edition

Bifrost #73

22 Wednesday Jan 2014

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Special Lovecraft edition of the French-language magazine Bifrost (latest, #73)…

My approximate translation of the contents page:

H.P. Lovecraft : A Life, by Bertrand Bonnet.

Precursors and influences : the literary roots of H.P. Lovecraft, by Bertrand Bonnet.

Lovecraft and his myth, by Raphael Granier de Cassagnac.

Call of Cthulhu : a subjective analysis of cosmic terror, by Laurent Kloetzer.

Lovecraft in France : a short tale of his critical reception, by Bertrand Bonnet.

Good trade, accursed books, by Bertrand Bonnet.

Outlining the unspeakable, a Lovecraftian reading guide.

Lovecraftian Micro-fiction Contest

19 Sunday Jan 2014

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Lovecraftian Micro-fiction Contest. 500 words by 1st March 2014.

“Mountains” fan-edit

18 Saturday Jan 2014

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Fan-edit / remix of the BBC Radio adaptation of “At The Mountains of Madness”. No indication of how it’s been changed. I just downloaded it, it sounds fine… perhaps it’s just a seamless concatenation of all the episodes.

More Open Lovecraft

18 Saturday Jan 2014

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* Bradley Allen Will (1998, 2013), The “supramundane”: The Kantian sublime in Lovecraft, Clarke, and Gibson”. (Ph.D. thesis, placed online 2013. Explores the sublime experience of discovering something that exceeds human understanding).

* Steven E. Jones (2013), The Emergence of the Digital Humanities: Chapter 2, “Dimensions”. (Has several pages on ideas of “Lovecraftian dimensionality” in relation to knowledge).

* Duran Flores Merlin Lisseth and Pineda Zaldana Maritza Beatriz (2013), “El terror u horror como eje estructurante en los cuentos “El extrano”, “El sabueso” y “El ser bajo la luz de la luna” de Howard Phillips Lovecraft” (Joint undergraduate disseration, University of El Salvador).