Hand-made map of the history of Science Fiction, imagined as a Lovecraftian monster
11 Friday Mar 2011
Posted in Historical context, Lovecraftian arts, Maps, Odd scratchings, Scholarly works
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Whisperer in Darkness film – finished
10 Thursday Mar 2011
Posted in Films & trailers, Lovecraftian arts
To alleviate the disappointment of the news of the canning of del Toro’s Mountains, comes news that the much-awaited film adaptation of The Whisperer in Darkness is completed.
Mountains canned
09 Wednesday Mar 2011
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
del Toro’s At The Mountains of Madness is off the table, or so reports The New Yorker. The studio demanded the movie be made suitable for 13 year olds, del Toro refused.
The Making of ‘Call of Cthulhu’
09 Wednesday Mar 2011
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
Lovecraftian artists may be interested in Giorgio Grecu’s “Making Of…” tutorial on 3D Total, for his picture Call of Cthulhu…
Kindle edition of Ice Cores
24 Thursday Feb 2011
Posted in Historical context, New books, Scholarly works
The new Kindle edition of my Ice Cores: essays on Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness is available now in the UK and in the USA. Slightly revised, and with another four passes of proofreading to correct a few minor niggles from the print edition. Hand coded for the Kindle, with illustrations.
Talking of Kindle / ebook sales, Barnes & Noble’s chief executive William Lynch says…
“we now sell twice as many ebooks as we do physical books at BN.com”
New Salon Futura – round-table podcast on niche publishing
15 Tuesday Feb 2011
Posted in Podcasts etc.
A new edition of Salon Futura is now available, including a podcast of a round-table on running a small publishing house. (Direct MP3 link, 57Mb | 57 minutes). Starts properly at 6:14.
There was a handy ePub edition for the first two issues of Salon Futura, but it seems to have vanished. Perhaps someone could volunteer to keep that valuable side of the magazine going?
Major New Yorker del Toro article
11 Friday Feb 2011
Posted in Historical context, Lovecraftian arts, New books
Substantial new New Yorker interview / profile article on Guillermo del Toro’s quest to film At The Mountains of Madness…
Incidentally, my 2010 book of essays on Lovecraft’s Mountains, Ice Cores, should be available on the Amazon Kindle Store within the next 48 hours. Hand-coded, four passes of fresh proofreading for this new edition, and with a linked table-of-contents…
Weirdletter reviews Houellebecq
09 Wednesday Feb 2011
Posted in Unnamable
Weirdletter has just published a long review (Google Translate link) of Houellebecq’s biography of Lovecraft.
New journal on science fiction
08 Tuesday Feb 2011
Posted in Historical context, Scholarly works
A new Spanish-language journal of science-fiction, Sci-Fdi : Revista de ciencia ficcion. Three issues so far, and the articles include one on Ray Bradbury’s stint with EC’s horror comics, 1951-1954, during which time 27 of Bradbury’s stories were closely adapted by Al (Albert B.) Feldstein. Initially pirated, but Bradbury was a comics fan and so he eventually found out and asked for a fee. He got it, to EC’s credit.
Save the endangered Tree Octopus!
05 Saturday Feb 2011
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, Odd scratchings
Heh.
Colby Quarterly
30 Sunday Jan 2011
Posted in Historical context, Scholarly works
The Colby Quarterly may be of interest to those seeking to place Lovecraft in the wider context of New England writers. The full-text of the journal is now online for free, 1943-2003. The journal…
“solicited [articles] on Maine authors and Maine history, including books and authors that had influenced Maine life and letters [and as the journal expanded to cover a wider range of English literature] The special interest in Maine and regional history and literature was maintained, now including the neighboring provinces of Canada”
It arriveth!
18 Tuesday Jan 2011
Posted in New books, Odd scratchings
After surviving four months in the cargo hold of an Atlantic tramp steamer crewed by swivel-eyed Norwegians (or so it seemed, judging by how long it was taking)… it arriveth!
The two volumes of I Am Providence by S.T. Joshi.