24 Thursday Jan 2019
Posted in 3D, Housekeeping, Odd scratchings
I’m pleased to say that I’ve regained jurn. org after a hiatus — and thus the main Web page for my JURN open access search-tool returns, as does my Poser and Daz Studio 3D creativity blog.
26 Wednesday Dec 2018
Posted in Housekeeping
I’m pleased to see that the Kindle ebook edition of Letters to James F. Morton has returned to Amazon UK and USA. The ebook had vanished in the summer. I’ve corrected my recent post on Lovecraft’s 2018: a year in brief review accordingly, and the text now reads…
“Several ebooks vanished from Amazon, such as Lovecraft’s Letters to James F. Morton, and H.P. Lovecraft: New England Decadent. So did the Arthur C. Clarke biography, which is of interest re: the early Lovecraft influence. The Morton letters later returned to Amazon, at the end of the year, but such vanishings suggest it is perilous for scholars to assume that once an ebook is published it will always remain available.”
Sadly it seems this has blanked the keyword-search ability, inside the book. My old Kindle 3 ebook of Morton can still be keyword searched. The same book on my Kindle Fire HD cannot be searched. I suspect this is because the Kindle Fire HD is set to auto-update a book to the latest edition, and the Kindle 3 isn’t. This then illustrates one of the perils of ebooks over paper books.
06 Thursday Sep 2018
Posted in Housekeeping, Scholarly works
My Open Lovecraft listing has updated, with a basic 2016-2018 survey of ‘open access’ scholarly and academic work which is free and public. About 25 new links added, as yet with minimal commentary and fill-out.
The rest of the links on the page haven’t yet been link-checked, so they probably have some link-rot. Around 15% link-rot is usual on academic papers on the open Web, after a couple of years.
02 Sunday Sep 2018
Posted in Housekeeping, Odd scratchings, Podcasts etc., Scholarly works
A new Page has been added to this blog, Free stuff. This collects all my various freebies, plus PDFs hosted for guests. All links should now be working, if they had previously been broken by failed domain names etc. There may be a couple of lurking freebies I’ve forgotten about, but they’ll be added in due course.
13 Thursday Aug 2015
Posted in Housekeeping
Checked the links and repaired/deleted as needed, on my “Lovecraft on the Web” Directory. About fifteen links have “vanished amidst a tiny vortex of unwholesome bubbles”.
13 Thursday Aug 2015
Posted in Housekeeping, Scholarly works
Checked and repaired all links on the Open Lovecraft page. The following items have been carried away by night gaunts…
An Awe-ful Integrity: The Science-Fiction Horror of H.P. Lovecraft.
Perceptual and relational deictic shift and the development of ‘atmosphere’ in H.P. Lovecraft’s short story The Colour Out of Space.
The Genetics of Horror: Sex and Racism in H.P. Lovecraft’s Fiction.
Kosmicki horor, gotsko telo i tekst: H.P. Lovecraft “Senka nad Insmutom”.
The Cosmic Angle of Regarding: mathematics and the fiction of H.P. Lovecraft.
Le temps du reve Lovecraftien, ou l’elaboration d’un temps du mythe.
H.P. Lovecraft: a transient speck in wide infinity. (Lovecraft as a poet).
Os Mitos de H.P. Lovecraft e a cultura juvenil.
Antares issues 08 and 00.
12 Wednesday Aug 2015
Posted in Housekeeping
Apparently Tentaclii’s “Allow people to post comments” checkbox was unchecked in my WordPress. Strange, and I’m not sure how it switched itself off (probably a WordPress update) but it’s fixed now. Comments are open for 14 days on new posts.
19 Friday Dec 2014
Posted in Housekeeping, Lovecraftian arts
So the Yuletide season rolls around, for another year. Happy Christmas, and here’s a rather excellent illustration — which can serve as a Christmas card for readers…
Picture: the UK’s Nelson Evergreen (the canvas name of Neil Evans).
15 Saturday Nov 2014
Posted in Housekeeping
The Open Lovecraft page, on this blog, has had its annual link-check and repair.
02 Wednesday Jul 2014
Posted in Housekeeping
I’ve given the ‘Lovecraft on the Web’ directory its annual link check.
Fixed most moved links, unless it’s simply the case that someone has paid a vanity fee to remove the www. — http://www.site.com
Removed URLs (taken to Yuggoth by ye buzzing ones): Pulpfest/Pulpcon; Old Time Radio Horror; Miskatonic Archive; Mythos Books; Nemonymous; Lovecraft Scholars (Yahoo Group); Creeping List (Yahoo Group); Necropsy: The Review of Horror Fiction; Representations of Antarctica.
10 Saturday May 2014
Posted in Housekeeping, New books
Has it been that long? I took a two month springtime break from Lovecraft (the best time to do so), in order to do intensive work on my JURN open access academic search tool. Until 2014 JURN indexed only open access (free) academic journals in the arts and humanities. It now also indexes all known open ecology-related journals, open business journals, and biomedical/science. Also most of the main UK academic repositories, and key US and world repositories. JURN’s index was given a thorough spring-cleaning and a deep linkrot cure, along with the same for the JURN Directory of arts and humanities journals.
Many thanks to Kenneth W. Faig, Jr. for sending me a paper copy of his EOD mailing zine, containing his kind reviews of my summer 2013 books. I’m also in receipt of review copies of Steven J. Mariconda’s H. P. Lovecraft: Art, Artifact, and Reality, and David Goudsward’s H. P. Lovecraft in the Merrimack Valley. Thanks to David Goudsward and Derek Hussey for those — I’ll be reviewing those books in July or August.
16 Tuesday Apr 2013
Posted in Housekeeping, Lovecraftian places
I added a new Lovecraftian places tag to this blog’s posts, so you can see all the “Lovecraftian places that really exist” series of postings.