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* LETTERS FROM H. P. LOVECRAFT TO EMIL PETAJA, 1934-1937. 28 letters, totaling 104 pages, of which approximately 95% is unpublished. 23 of the letters are entirely unpublished.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
04 Wednesday Jul 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, New books
A cover, contents list, and release date (Dec 2012) for the forthcoming fungi-themed fiction anthology, Fungi…
03 Tuesday Jul 2012
Posted in Odd scratchings
Just heard from S.T. Joshi, via his new blog post, that the World Fantasy Convention is happening in Brighton in late 2013. 31st Oct – 3rd November to be precise. For those who don’t know the British Isles, Brighton is the hip seaside playground town for London.
02 Monday Jul 2012
Posted in Historical context, Podcasts etc.
An excellent new half-hour BBC Radio 4 documentary on the meaning and history of ‘the uncanny’. Three days left to ‘listen again’, online. Listeners outside the UK may need to use a UK proxy, to access the audio stream.
02 Monday Jul 2012
Posted in Astronomy, Historical context, Unnamable
Over on the Urania blog, a new scholarly/scientific essay in Italian by Albino Carbognani, on Lovecraft’s first publication in a national journal. This was the letter to Scientific American, advising on a method of detecting the presence of possible planets beyond Neptune…
From the conclusion of Carbognani’s essay (my approximate translation), in which he suggests naming any beyond-Pluto planet ‘Yuggoth’…
“In 1999 two groups of researchers claimed to have proof of the presence of an unknown planet at the edges of the solar system, due to the alignment of [the paths of] long-period comets [but today, to prove such a theory] there is [still] the need to have a [wider] sample of long-period comets that is free from selection effects. Full details of this kind may be provided by the European Space Agency’s Gaia satellite, to be launched in the spring of 2013. Gaia should allow the discovery of about 1,000 long-period comets during its five year mission. Will an analysis of the distribution of [their] cometary aphelia [paths] give us details about the existence of a true ‘Yuggoth’ planet? It would be very symbolic to call any [new outer] planet by that name, the name summoned from the fervid imagination of Lovecraft to designate the hypothetical trans-Neptunian planetary body that he anticipated astronomers should find the edge of the Solar System.”
Incidentally that very same edition of Scientific American carried an ad for the Remington, the same typewriter Lovecraft had used to type his letter…
02 Monday Jul 2012
Posted in Housekeeping
I’ve completed the annual “check, clean and repair” on this blog’s “Lovecraft on the Web” Directory.
02 Monday Jul 2012
Posted in Scholarly works
A scholarly paper that appears to be new online: Gilbert Lascault, “Lovecraft et ses mythes intimes” (“Lovecraft and his intimate myths”). It appears to be pages 175-190 from Territoires des Fantastiques (1998), published by the Presses de l’Universite de Provence. As best I can judge it’s a survey of the rhetoric of “the monstrous” in Lovecraft’s fiction.
01 Sunday Jul 2012
Posted in Historical context, Scholarly works
An interesting short survey article on the transforming 18th century understanding of caves, “The Mighty Cavern of the Past“, which may shed some light on the ways in which the young Lovecraft’s mind approached the idea of ‘the cave’.
Above: “The Dead Sea”, engraving of Mammoth Cave by Alfred R. Waud, printed in Every Saturday, 1871.