The latest issue of The Fossil is now available. July 2012 is a “Memories of ‘Tryout’ Smith” special issue, with several contributions by Lovecraft.
The Fossil, July 2012
04 Saturday Aug 2012
Posted in Historical context
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Weird Tales interviews S.T. Joshi
03 Friday Aug 2012
Posted in Scholarly works
The new Weird Tales website has a complete S.T. Joshi interview (from June 2012), free online…
“The more you read Lovecraft’s letters and learn about his life, the more you realise what a pungent sense of humour he had. This doesn’t come out in his fiction precisely because he felt (rightly, I think) that humor doesn’t mix well with the kind of intense, clutching horror he sought to write. But he really had a good sense of humour, ranging from light-hearted buffoonery to biting satire.”
Slime Dynamics
03 Friday Aug 2012
Posted in New books
Oozing into a bookstore near you at the end of September, Slime Dynamics by Ben Woodard…
“…slime is more often than not relegated to a mere residue the trail of a verminous life form, the trace of decomposition, or an entertaining synthetic material […] this text explores naturephilosophie, speculative realism, and contemporary science; hyperbolic representations of slime found in the weird texts of H.P. Lovecraft and Thomas Ligotti; as well as survival horror films, video games, and graphic novels, in order to present the dynamics of slime not only as the trace of life but as the darkly vitalistic substance of life.”
84 pages.
Introduction – Slime Ascent.
1 – The Nightmarish Microbial.
2 – Fungoid Horror and The Creep of Life.
3 – Extra-Galactic Terror.
Conclusion – Slime Metaphysics?
Build an Elder God
02 Thursday Aug 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, Unnamable
How to occupy the kidlings in the dog-days of August? Why, “Build an Elder God”, of course! 🙂 Releasing from Signal Fire Studios on 15th August for $20…
“Building An Elder God is a casual card game of Lovecraftian construction for 2-5 players ages 10 and up. The rules are easy to learn and a typical game takes from 15-30 minutes, depending on the number of players. Build a Cthulhu-esque tentacled monstrosity to completion before the other players, using damage cards to blast your opponents’ creatures to slow down their progress so that you can win!”
Cthulhu Libria
01 Wednesday Aug 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, New books
The German book-oriented fanzine Cthulhu Libria is keeping up a regular publication schedule, and free PDF editions are available. With fine covers for each issue by Johann Peterka…
Above: Robert Bloch – “Notebook found in a Deserted House”, by Johann Peterka.
Johan Peterka also starts a comic-strip adaptation of “The Haunter of the Dark” in Cthulhu Libria issue 44 (April 2012)…
A 125th memorial library
31 Tuesday Jul 2012
Posted in Odd scratchings, Scholarly works
Here’s a thought for a 125th birthday present for H.P. Lovecraft (20th August 2015). A new public-access library collection, containing copies of all of the print scholarship ever written about him. The purchase of these books and journals to be funded by a major Kickstarter or IndieGoGo campaign. To be open and catalogued by 2017, which is the 100th anniversary of the inception of the Mythos.
Do the math
31 Tuesday Jul 2012
Posted in Scholarly works
Article on Lovecraft’s mathematics-inspired spaces…
Thomas Hull (2006), “H.P. Lovecraft: a Horror in Higher Dimensions”, Math Horizons, Vol.13, No.3, Feb 2006, pp.10-12.
Lovecraft in Historical Context 3 – now an ebook for your Kindle
31 Tuesday Jul 2012
Posted in Historical context, New books, Scholarly works
I’m pleased to say that my new book, Lovecraft in Historical Context: a third collection of essays and notes, is now available for the Kindle ebook reader, in the USA and the UK.
This was a 12-hour hand-coding job, with four passes of proof-reading on an actual Kindle, and is not an automatic conversion. There is a linked table-of-contents, and the footnotes are fully interactive “round trip” links.
The ebook is also available for the Kindle in Germany and Italy.
A 120-page print edition is also available, for those who prefer print. This print edition link will also get you to the table-of-contents and a PDF sample.
The ghost octopus of 1894
31 Tuesday Jul 2012
Posted in Historical context, Lovecraftian arts
From an early comic-strip in the London Graphic, 1894…
Conference – Gothic: Culture, Subculture, Counterculture
31 Tuesday Jul 2012
Posted in Scholarly works
A forthcoming conference: “Gothic: Culture, Subculture, Counterculture“, 8th-9th March 2013 at St Mary’s University College, Twickenham and Strawberry Hill House, London.
“This conference, held in the Gothic mansion at Strawberry Hill, west London, will interrogate the many and varied cultures of the Gothic that were largely set in train by the owner of this mansion, Horace Walpole, in the mid-eighteenth century.”
Cthulhu : a Puppet Play
30 Monday Jul 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
Cthulhu : a Puppet Play has completed Kickstarter funding, and raised $2,205. The show will happen in Houston, USA, at the 14 Pews arts centre.
Wedgwood Steventon
30 Monday Jul 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
I’m pleased to say that one of the many little galleries in my city is having an exhibition of surrealist paintings likely to interest Lovecraft fans. Wedgwood Steventon’s solo show launches at Artwaves gallery in Stoke-on-Trent on Friday 3rd of August 2012 (7pm-9pm). The exhibition will run from 4th-18th Aug, between 11am-4pm daily (closed Sundays).
Wedgwood Steventon is based locally, but until now has mostly shown internationally. “A collection of works on paper and canvas, personal experiences of an existence in 21st Century England (and Beyond) : a Gathering of Nightmares, Truths and Dares.”