15 Thursday Sep 2011
Posted in Films & trailers
The Whisperer in Darkness trailers…
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15 Thursday Sep 2011
Posted in Films & trailers
The L.A. Times covers the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival.
Still: “The Whisperer in Darkness” by the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society. TRAILERS.
14 Wednesday Sep 2011
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, New books
Available now on Lulu, the 52-page catalogue for the Dead and Dreaming art show…
“This tome collects the work from the ‘Dead and Dreaming’ exhibition at Paradigm Gallery, Philadelphia [Fall 2011], showcasing twenty artists interpreting the work of H.P. Lovecraft.”
13 Tuesday Sep 2011
Posted in Odd scratchings
The Center for Post-Natural History is dedicated to showing the sort of creature exhibits never likely to make it to the mainstream natural history museums…
“The PostNatural refers to living organisms that have been altered through processes such as selective breeding or genetic engineering.”
I wonder if they have any fish-frogs?
12 Monday Sep 2011
Posted in Historical context, Scholarly works
An interesting new article on a topic little-addressed outside of SF circles: “Modifiable Futures: Science Fiction at the Bench“…
“the function of science fiction […] in the history of scientific and technological innovation has often been obscured, misconstrued, or repudiated” [but] “they have a relationship of ongoing and productive mutual modification.”
12 Monday Sep 2011
Posted in Odd scratchings
Lovecraft would have loved these. Spooky glow-in-the-dark kittens, created by splicing their genes with those of a fluorescent jellyfish.
12 Monday Sep 2011
Posted in Odd scratchings
In Portland there’s a new Lovecraft bar. I wonder if they also serve HPL’s fave, coffee and ice-cream…
12 Monday Sep 2011
Posted in Odd scratchings
Book Aesthete certainly does have a nice format for a book blog. It’s on Tumblr.
11 Sunday Sep 2011
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, New books
Lovecraft e-zine issue 6, available now for Kindle or Nook ereaders.
10 Saturday Sep 2011
Posted in Odd scratchings
Ramsey Campbell gets a “Why I write…” feature in the latest Publisher’s Weekly.
10 Saturday Sep 2011
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, New books
A preview of the children’s picture-book Where’s my Shoggoth? (Arteria, April 2012)…
07 Wednesday Sep 2011
Posted in Unnamable
Apex has a full online copy of the new survey/opinion article “The Improbable, Inevitable Domestication of the Great Old Ones: HP Lovecraft’s Iconic Influence on 21st-Century Fantastic Literature and Culture“, which is part of Apex Magazine’s September 2011 issue — available by in PDF/ePub/Kindle/Nook.
“In the passage of time, the promiscuous appropriation of his creations and now Lovecraft’s canonization into the American literary firmament, some of the weirdness and danger is culturally softened. Becoming an icon, a representation that can be used to create not just likeness but signify qualities beyond the image, has taken some of the horror out of Lovecraft.”