05 Monday Dec 2011
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
Czech artist Petr Augustin is making a Web video series of H.P. Lovecraft’s story “The Rats In The Walls”. He’s using a combination of his hand-drawings, cut-outs, and simple motion-comics -like animation…
[vimeo 28142735]
04 Sunday Dec 2011
Posted in Odd scratchings
Lovecraft’s Brooklyn is thriving again.
02 Friday Dec 2011
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society is now taking pre-orders for the DVD version of their feature-length The Whisperer in Darkness movie.
01 Thursday Dec 2011
Posted in Historical context
The Newtown Pentangle has fine photographs of the Flatbush Dutch Reformed churchyard and graves in Brooklyn…
Photo: Mitch Waxman
The churchyard is the location for Lovecraft’s “The Hound”. Also a key site of his nocturnal investigations…
“That evening Kleiner and I investigated the principal antiquity of this section — the old Dutch Reformed Church — and were well repaid for our quest.”
[ Hat-tip: Danny Callaghan ]
30 Wednesday Nov 2011
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, Odd scratchings
“Bow before your future robo-tentacle overlords…”
30 Wednesday Nov 2011
Posted in New books
New Critical Essays on H.P. Lovecraft is the title of a new book set for publication in 2012 by major publisher Palgrave Macmillan.
29 Tuesday Nov 2011
Posted in New books
Got shrooms? Innsmouth Free Press have pre-announced a new anthology based around fungi…
Full guidelines for the anthology will be posted in December (Don’t send anything, yet!). […] Fungi will be released by Innsmouth Free Press as a special edition hardcover, paperback and e-book. Look for it in October of 2012
Above: from Matango (1963, aka Attack of the Mushroom People)
28 Monday Nov 2011
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
As a devotee of the ice-cream parlour, Lovecraft might have appreciated these on a hot day in New York.
28 Monday Nov 2011
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
Interview with Ragnar Tornquist (Longest Journey, Dreamfall) on the forthcoming online game-world The Secret World…
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wC3_6LgW0yY&w=560&h=315&start=51]
The game goes live in April 2012. and there’s significant Lovecraftian content front-loaded in the storyline.
27 Sunday Nov 2011
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, Unnamable
Sad news — the sweet W.H. Pugmire is in hospital with a serious heart condition.
26 Saturday Nov 2011
Posted in Scholarly works
Monsters: Subject, Object, Abject :: April 12th-13th 2012. The Manchester Museum, Manchester (northern England), United Kingdom
From children’s toys to religious architecture, from medical and legal definitions to Gothic romance – cultural products resonate with fear, obsession and desire for the monster.
CALL FOR PAPERS: Proposals are sought for 20-minute papers. Possible topics include (but are not limited to)…
Monsters in literature, art, music and film
Architectural monsters
Subjectivity and the monster
Objectification and the monster
Historical definition of the monstrous
Medical and legal monsters
Theorisations of the monstrous
Mythology, folklore and legends
Hybrids and hybridity
Cyborgs and the posthuman
Please send 300-word abstracts to conference@hic-dragones.co.uk by Sunday 1st January 2012. For more information, please see our website: www.hic-dragones.co.uk/events.
Following the conference, there will be a two-day public Monsters Convention in Manchester. We would be interested in hearing from anyone interested in offering a talk or seminar at this convention. Please email Dr. Hannah Priest for more info: events@hic-dragones.co.uk
26 Saturday Nov 2011
Posted in New books
An excellent long interview with Ann & Jeff Vandermeer, editors of the new megathology The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories…
Q: “Is there anything that surprised you when researching and compiling The Weird?”
A: “What surprised us, quite frankly, after reading so much across a century of fiction is that some of what has been dubbed “classic” just re-treads earlier work by other writers that most readers don’t know about…”
“We also discovered that some writers are obscure because the reprint rights are so difficult to acquire. […] Contemporary writers should give great thought to who will represent them after they have passed on. Because we also discovered estates represented by agents who had literally succumbed to dementia and were unable to negotiate.”