Posted by asdjfdlkf | Filed under Lovecraftian arts
The Terrible Old Man meets the Cats of Ulthar
28 Monday Oct 2013
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Magic Words
27 Sunday Oct 2013
Posted in New books
New 400-page unauthorised Alan Moore biography, Magic Words: The Extraordinary Life of Alan Moore
Well, well, well…
26 Saturday Oct 2013
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, Podcasts etc.
I must have missed this one. Apparently it’s been lurking down the well since the end of summer 2013…
NecronomiCon 2013 report by Darrell Schweitzer
26 Saturday Oct 2013
Posted in NecronomiCon 2013
Weird Tales has a NecronomiCon 2013 report by Darrell Schweitzer.
Poecast
26 Saturday Oct 2013
Posted in Podcasts etc.
A new Edgar Allan Poe podcast.
Enter NerdVana
26 Saturday Oct 2013
Posted in Podcasts etc.
NerdVana podcast has just finished three episodes looking at Lovecraft, and his influence on gaming and other popular culture.
Lovecraft and Synchronicity
26 Saturday Oct 2013
Posted in New books, Scholarly works
New 120-page book by Renzo Giorgetti, Lovecraft and Synchronicity (EDS, Stienta 2012. In Italian). Here’s the gist of a translated review…
Giorgetti uses ideas of synchronicity theorized by [the mystic/psychotherapist] Carl Jung. [The book has a] chapter dedicated to the figure of “Nyarlathotep” [in which Lovecraft] incarnates the state of tension that unites the crowds at that particular moment in history […] because of political and social upheavals [arising in the the post-war crisis year of 1919]. Then there are seemingly daring combinations between Lovecraft and the contemporary Italian writer Massimo Bontempelli. […] Another very striking juxtaposition is in the final chapter where the music of Erik Satie is compared to that of Erich Zann. Satie — one of the greats of contemporary music — is portrayed as an eccentric and passionate about esoteric beliefs.
New England Vampire Panic
22 Tuesday Oct 2013
Posted in Historical context, Podcasts etc.
“New England Vampire Panic” history podcast. Starts at 2:46. The first instance sounds similar to “The Shunned House”, in terms of the run of deaths in a family. The second instance in Exeter also recalls the town of Innsmouth, in terms of the depopulation and the accusations of inbreeding.
Providence and Rhode Island c.1943
22 Tuesday Oct 2013
Posted in Films & trailers, Historical context
Providence in circa 1943…
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Chicago Tribune on Lovecraft
21 Monday Oct 2013
Posted in Unnamable
A rather windy Chicago Tribune opinion piece on H.P. Lovecraft shedding his former lowly literary status. It’s only available to USA users, whereas I’m in the UK and so found my access blocked. Those outside the USA should fire up your TOR bundle and its Web browser to access such articles. It works a treat.
Dreams in the Witch House: A Lovecraftian Rock Opera
21 Monday Oct 2013
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
Fleeting-Improvised-Men reviewed
20 Sunday Oct 2013
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, New books
Green Mountains Review reviews the new book The Natural Dissolution of Fleeting-Improvised-Men, which weaves a pseudo-scholarly fiction around H.P. Lovecraft’s “last letter”.
