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Lovecraft to Borges: cities in deserts

03 Tuesday Apr 2012

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A seemingly new (Nov 2011) short scholarly paper, in French. Reflets de villes dans le désert : de Lovecraft a Borges (“Reflections of cities in the desert: Lovecraft to Borges”)…

“There is a traditional conception of the fantastic city. It rises in the Gothic novel, and has been perpetuated in the modern horror, imposing an urban topography across two or three levels — articulated as a social reality, a visceral fear, and as a symbolic expression.”

New Lovecraft letters discovered

30 Friday Mar 2012

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Four new Lovecraft letters discovered and currently for sale on eBay with full transcriptions…

“Regarding copyrights – I never bothered with such things. The chances of pirating are really very remote & when a piece is professionally published, the magazine holds the copyrights [for the] “First North American Serial Rights Only.” This means that you are selling only the first printing. If an anthology copies the piece or if the magazine decides to reprint it, more pay is due you — though re-sale prices seldom equal those for a first printing. Re-sales sometimes (illegible) up quite impressively — my “Erich Zann”, for instance has been used six times in America and England. ” — letter to the young Robert Nelson, 16th January 1935.

The Ghost of Fear

27 Tuesday Mar 2012

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Now in stock and shipping. A collection of stories Lovecraft is known to have especially admired, presented as a $50 limited-edition hardback…

The Ghost of Fear and Others…

Contents:

Introduction by S.T. Joshi
Idle Days on the Yann by Lord Dunsany
Fragments from the Journal of a Solitary Man by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Man Who Went Too Far by E.F. Benson
The Mark of the Beast by Rudyard Kipling
The Sin-Eater by Fiona Macleod
The House of Sounds by M.P. Shiel
The Phantom Farmhouse by Seabury Quinn
One of Cleopatra’s Nights by Theophile Gautier
The Stranger from Kurdistan by E. Hoffmann Price
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar by Edgar Allan Poe
Novel of the White Powder by Arthur Machen
The Dead Smile by F. Marion Crawford
The Ghost of Fear by H.G. Wells
Lukundoo by Edward Lucas White
Bells of Oceana by Arthur J. Burks
The Wind in the Portico by John Buchan