18 Monday Jun 2012
Posted in Historical context
Some photos from the H.P. Lovecraft Photo Gallery that I’d not seen before, of Lovecraft in 1935…
1935: Lovecraft in St. John’s Churchyard, Providence.
1935: Lovecraft in front of the Sarah Helen Whitman House, Providence.
1935(?): Lovecraft in Florida?
1935, March 2 – Lovecraft in the doorway of his home at 66 College Street, Providence.
The last two look like they may have been made by someone familiar with American modernist photography.
16 Saturday Jun 2012
Posted in Historical context, New books
Nodens Books has published a little edition of the collected works of Robert Nelson, Sable Revery: Poems, Sketches and Letters by Robert Nelson…
“Robert Nelson (1912-1935) was a contributor of verse to Weird Tales magazine in the mid-1930s, and of verse and prose to fan magazines like The Fantasy Fan. He was also a correspondent of H.P. Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith. This slim volume collects all of his published poems, prose-sketches and letters, which date from the last four years of his short life. Also included are five letters by H.P. Lovecraft, four to Nelson and one to Nelson’s mother after the young man’s death.”
15 Friday Jun 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, Lovecraftian places
More Lovecraftian places that really exist…
Kanheri Caves, India. (Credit: HelveticaNormal)
Structure built for bats, Key West, USA. (Credit: Jrau272)
Fingal’s Cave, British Isles. (Credit: Jim Richardson / National Geographic magazine)
Whinlatter, British Isles. (Credit: Eliot Reeves)
Alpine ice cave, Aiguille du Midi, Europe. (Credit: Kamil Tamiola)
Abandoned house, North Brother Island, USA. (Credit: unknown)
14 Thursday Jun 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
09 Saturday Jun 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
Argentinian comics artist Horacio Lalia (Judge Dredd, The Time Machine, Lovecraft) is licencing some of his Lovecraft adaptations…
During his career her has adapted…
“The Nameless City, The Rats in the Walls, The Festival, He, Out of Time, The Unnamable, Dagon, The Alchemist, The Colour Out of Space, The Haunter of the Dark, The Outsider, Pickman’s Model, The Call of Cthulhu, The Moon-Bog, The Dreams in the Witch House, In the Vault, The Mystery of the Grave-Yard, The Ghost-Eater and Cool Air.”
According to Amazon his adaptations were collected in a 2003 book, but it was in French. This is reportedly only 93 pages, so perhaps doesn’t include all of them. There also seems to have been two Spanish language collections Lovecraft: El Grimorio Maldito and Lovecraft: El Manuscrito Olvidado. There’s no English Lalia Lovecraft collection that I can find, although his adaptation of “The Festival” is possibly available in English for the iPad (the description page is very confused about what the product actually is).
02 Saturday Jun 2012
Posted in Scholarly works
Conference: Monsters and the Monstrous: future anxieties. 10th-12th September 2012 at Mansfield College, Oxford, in the UK.
Themes:
* Monstrous Places/Spaces of the Future
* Human Monsters
* Monstrous Aliens & Alien Invaders
* Monstrous Generations (youth, old folks etc)
* Monstrous Politics (which predictably avoids suggesting the horrors of socialism)
01 Friday Jun 2012
Posted in Historical context
Little Fugitive (1953), an innovative child’s-eye movie shot with a new type of portable 35mm movie camera on the streets of Brooklyn and Coney Island in summer 1952 — which must then have still been recognisable as the place Lovecraft knew just over twenty years earlier. (Yes, nit-pickers, Lovecraft visited and enjoyed Coney Island several times). The movie has been restored by the Museum of Modern Art. Not to be confused with the 2006 remake.
01 Friday Jun 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
Ng Suat Tong’s new article, “Adapting Lovecraft” for comics, with a big selection of artwork and pages.
31 Thursday May 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
A new Kickstarter project, A Shadow out of Providence, described as…
“a play and two short stories” […] “treats Lovecraft the writer, the thinker, and the cultural phenomenon” [via a] metafictional re-working of Lovecraftical material”.
28 Monday May 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
The cupcake creative revolution vs. monsters! Monsters win…
23 Wednesday May 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
Nice bit of art featuring Lovecraft, on the poster for the recent film festival…
22 Tuesday May 2012
Posted in Scholarly works
News of an upcoming academic conference (or perhaps a conference strand?) on Lovecraft, to be held in Vermont — Weird Lovecraft: H.P. Lovecraft, Weird Tales, and the American Horror Canon…
“The College of St. Joseph is actively looking for paper proposals that explore the way that Lovecraft and/or Weird Tales helped construct the American horror canon or the American horrific aesthetic.”
“Papers will be presented at the College of St. Joseph’s popular culture conference, held 26-27th October 2012.”
See the PDF for details. Sadly, I see that the deadline for abstacts has passed — it was 15th May. Better initial publicity needed, next time, methinks.
