18 Wednesday Jul 2012
Posted in Scholarly works
What appears to be a new academic paper, freely online: “Perceptual and relational deictic shift and the development of ‘atmosphere’ in H.P. Lovecraft’s short story The Colour Out of Space“, by Brian P. Elliston.
16 Monday Jul 2012
Posted in Podcasts etc.
I’ve discovered a superb scientific podcast, Astronomy Cast covering astronomy and space exploration. The show is presented by an outstandingly-fluent academic and a lively magazine editor. They take a single subject per podcast, and discuss it in-depth and with a clear structure. Some of the podcasts in the archive will interest Lovecraftians, such as:
Planet X (detecting unknown planets beyond Pluto).
Astronomy in Science Fiction (special edition at a convention, discussion of TV and movies only).
16 Monday Jul 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, Podcasts etc.
After three years of great free listening, the H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast presenters take stock and consider future plans.
I haven’t got around to listening to this latest show yet, but judging from the text comments there will be a new “super show” format via a paid iTunes subscription. Paying is fine, but I have no affection at all for iTunes. I’d say it should be much more open — like Instapaper’s simple set-it-and-forget-it “$3 for 3 months” recurring PayPal debit charge.
12 Thursday Jul 2012
Posted in New books, Scholarly works
A forthcoming academic book has a chapter on Lovecraft. Chapter 5 of Reverberations : the philosophy, aesthetics and politics of noise (Aug 2012) is:
Dean Lockwood (Lincoln, UK), “Mongrel Vibrations: H.P. Lovecraft’s Weird Ecology of Noise”
10 Tuesday Jul 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
Some lovely examples of artwork from Lovecraft stories, from what appears to be a new Spanish edition of comics adaptations by Erik Kriek. So far as I know, this book is currently only available in Dutch and Spanish.
08 Sunday Jul 2012
Posted in Maps, Scholarly works
“I am it, and It is I”: Lovecraft in Providence is an interactive mapping website created by University of Virginia undergraduate Paul Mawye. The site…
“connects short passages from the letters of horror writer H.P. Lovecraft with the geography of […] Rhode Island.”
Thankfully, no Flash is involved. The website instead runs on Neatline, which is a system used to make online projects that display combinations of…
“history, literature, and contemporary space and place”
07 Saturday Jul 2012
Posted in New books
Just published in hardback from Cambridge University Press: Antarctica in Fiction: Imaginative Narratives of the Far South…
“This comprehensive and engaging analysis of a wide range of Antarctic fiction – from lost-race romances to espionage thrillers to travellers’ tales to horror fantasies – is essential reading for anyone interested in the history, literature and culture of Antarctica”
The Introduction is available free online, with footnotes missing.
And interesting find is George Clarke Simpson’s 1914 story “Fragments of a Manuscript Found by the People of Sirius When They Visited the Earth During the Exploration of the Solar System” (South Polar Times. Vol. 3), which uses the term “climate change” to imagine a dramatically warmed earth, so much so that it causes all the Antarctic ice to melt. The author is not obscure, since he was a famous polar expeditionary of the time and went on to head the Met Office. But the story is so obscure that it seems rather unlikely Lovecraft knew of it.
06 Friday Jul 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, New books
A preview of a possible cover for a new Lovecraft artzine, Three-lobed Burning Eye. The zine is being mooted for debut in paper form next May, at the Toronto Comics and Arts Festival.
06 Friday Jul 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
I wasn’t aware that Heavy Metal comics veteran Richard Corben has tackled seven Lovecraft adaptations, in Haunt of Horror: Lovecraft (2008)…
Dagon – by Lovecraft
The Music of Erich Zann – by Lovecraft
The Canal (from “Fungi from Yuggoth”) – by Lovecraft
The Lamp (from “Fungi from Yuggoth”) – by Lovecraft
A Memory (from “Fungi from Yuggoth”) – by Lovecraft
The Scar (after ‘Recognition’ from “Fungi from Yuggoth”) – by Lovecraft
The Well – by Lovecraft
The Window – by Lovecraft
I was never a fan of his gaudy airbrushed colour artwork in the 1980s Heavy Metal, but his b&w style looks quite pleasing…
06 Friday Jul 2012
Posted in Odd scratchings
Unglue.it, a Kickstarter-like service for making out-of-print books available again.
06 Friday Jul 2012
Posted in Odd scratchings
Interesting bundle of items for sale at L.W. Currey…
* LETTERS FROM H. P. LOVECRAFT TO EMIL PETAJA, 1934-1937. 28 letters, totaling 104 pages, of which approximately 95% is unpublished. 23 of the letters are entirely unpublished.
* TYPED MANUSCRIPT. Six leaves (of 10) of an unidentified short story by Petaja with holograph corrections throughout by Lovecraft.
* TYPED MANUSCRIPT. “Alphabetical List of Fantasy Authors.” typed by Petaja, with extensive handwritten notes by Lovecraft.
* AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT. Lovecraft’s handwritten untitled addendum to Petaja’s list of fantasy authors.
05 Thursday Jul 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
The Institute of Design (IED) in Milan, Italy, recently invited student work. Fermomag reports that among those chosen to be shown — at the Frankfurt Book Fair next October, no less — will be a…
Lovecraft Dossier by Mattia Raimi, revisiting the story of ‘the loneliness of Providence’, in police dossier style