15 Saturday Dec 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, Scholarly works
Added to the Lovecraft on the Web directory… the Lovecraftian zine Cyaegha. Sadly the format is an old school print-sniffer’s limited edition print chapbook, several of which are marked “SOLD OUT” /sigh/. But the contents look quite fabulous.
![Cyaegha 7 [Lilac]](https://www.jurn.link/tentaclii/oldimages/cyaegha-7-lilac.jpg?w=207)
15 Saturday Dec 2012
Posted in Scholarly works
New additions to the Open Lovecraft page:
* Hannes Storhaug-Meyer (2010), The Morphology of the Unknown : the narrative technique of Howard Philips Lovecraft (Masters degree dissertation, University of Oslo)
* Elizabeth A. Clendinning and Kathleen McAuley (2010), “The Call of Cthulhu : narrativity of the cult in metal”, IN: The Metal Void: First Gatherings, Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2010.
09 Sunday Dec 2012
Posted in Podcasts etc.
The gloaming, a 30 minute BBC Radio 4 documentary on…
“the ‘in-between moments’ of twilight at the start and end of each day.”
04 Tuesday Dec 2012
Posted in Scholarly works
Interesting news from S.T. Joshi, in his latest blog post, on a definitive Lovecraft ‘starter’ bibliography…
“I have been asked by Oxford University Press to prepare a bibliography of Lovecraft for some online venue. The idea is to present a list of the most important works by and about Lovecraft, with an emphasis on scholarly books and articles on all aspects of Lovecraft’s life, work, and thought. The bibliography will be continually updated. I have already prepared a rough draft of the work and hope to send it to the publisher well in advance of the due date of December 31.”
04 Tuesday Dec 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
The Jersey Devil Press is doing a Lovecraft mash-ups issue…
“inspired by Gaiman stories like “A Study in Emerald” and “I Cthulhu” we’re looking for something special… a mash-up of one literary style or theme with ol’ Howard Phillips to create something new, ideally something dark and ferocious, very possibly with a healthy dose of humor. In short, write Lovecraft like Neil Gaiman!”
Deadline: 1st May 2013.
27 Tuesday Nov 2012
Posted in Podcasts etc.
A pretty good short BBC radio documentary on fan fiction: When Harry Potter met Frodo: The Strange World of Fan Fiction. Available online. Despite the cow-catching title, copyright means it doesn’t dwell for more than a few seconds on Potter or LoTR. Lovecraft’s mythos sadly doesn’t get a namecheck as the ur-site of fan fiction in the 20th century.
25 Sunday Nov 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
New work from Alan Bao, “Lovecraftian Evolution”…
20 Tuesday Nov 2012
Posted in New books
Barnes & Noble is now taking orders for its exclusive 160-page oversize hardback Nightmare Countries: H.P. Lovecraft, the master of cosmic horror by S.T. Joshi. H.P.Lovecraft.com has a page for the book, giving details of the chapter titles and illustrations.
Apparently it’s been piled in some of the Barnes & Noble stores in the USA, for a few weeks now?
18 Sunday Nov 2012
Posted in Historical context, Scholarly works
The University of Michigan has announced a free online academic course in Fantasy and Science Fiction: The Human Mind, Our Modern World. No sign-up yet or precise dates yet, but it looks like it might be a 10-week summer school in summer 2013. One to watch.
18 Sunday Nov 2012
A new blog post from S.T. Joshi, with the news that the definitive Lovecraft biography…
“I Am Providence (2010) will be translated into German.”
16 Friday Nov 2012
Posted in Scholarly works
NecronomiCon Providence is calling for scholarly papers for the academic strand on Lovecraft and his works…
“…including the influence of history, architecture, science (anthropology, biology, geology, etc), and popular culture (movies, theater, etc), on his works.”
But you have to be able to deliver it in person in Providence on 23rd-25th August 2013, and if selected will be allotted just twenty minutes. Perhaps fannish conferences such as this could also run a more flexible fannish format in parallel, for those unable to attend: “present the talk to video, and ramble on for as long as you want…” 😉
16 Friday Nov 2012
Posted in Historical context, New books, Scholarly works
A new book by Michael Moon, Darger’s Resources (Duke University Press, 2012), historically contextualises the American outsider artist Henry Darger, through an examination of his actual and likely sources. One chapter that may interest Lovecraftian scholars is called “Wierd Flesh, World’s Flesh: Darger and the pulps”. Google Books is only letting me have a selection of pages but there appears to be no actual suggestion of direct influence, from Darger having read Lovecraft. But Moon notes that Darger’s work on The Realms was contemporaneous (1908/11-1938) with Lovecraft’s working years and ‘the pulp years’, and Moon draws parallels between the two men’s approaches to evoking horrors.