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HPLinks #27 – Lovecraft in Welsh, Providence Film Fest dates, book covers, Night Wire, Lovecraft in a cleft, and more…

26 Wednesday Feb 2025

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HPLinks #27.

* Hippocampus Press now has a page for A Sense of Proportion: The Letters of H.P. Lovecraft and Frank Belknap Long and the pre-order discount is active. This page is for the 500 limited-edition hardcover, said to be due in March 2025.

* New and free in open-access, the book Horror in Classical Antiquity and Beyond (2025). This touches on various topics of possible interest to Lovecraftians, such as Roman antiquity and its legacy in horror, hybrids in Ovid (again), and Mythos writers may also be interested in discovering new gobbets of true-grue in the chapter on ‘Recipes for Horror in Graeco-Roman Magic and Medicine’.

* The ultimate horror, having to read Lovecraft in Welsh. Now you can, as there’s a new book of translations titled Galwad Cthulhu a Straeon Arswyd Eraill (Feb 2025). Translated by…

acclaimed Welsh novelist and short-story writer Peredur Glyn, whose story collection Pumed Gainc y Mabinogi was shortlisted for Welsh Book of the Year in 2023.

* “Existentialism as Cosmic Indifference in Works of H.P. Lovecraft” (2020), an undergraduate dissertation. Currently under embargo, but I see it’s set to be available for public download on 17th June 2025.

* The forthcoming 2025 H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival – Providence has dates, 22nd to 24th August 2025.

* The organisers of the 2025 Howard Days have a new blog post, which notes that…

The Windy City Pulp & Paperback Convention is happening 4th-6th April 2025 in Lombard, Illinois, where they are kicking off the ‘100 Years of Bob Howard’ festivities! Windy City is one of the best Pulp Cons in the country, and will celebrate Ol’ Two-Gun with dealers, auctions and a REH panel.

* Edward Gorey at 100, from the Gorey Charitable Trust. A round-up of Gorey events for his centenary year.

* Medievalists.net on “Laughing at Evil: The Hidden Purpose of Gargoyles” in churches.

* Another ‘Lovecraft as character’ tale, discovered. Equoid (2013) by Charles Stross. A novella, at 109 pages and one that is seemingly now collectable in hardcover. But there’s also an affordable Kindle ebook. The cover illustration and blurb are spoilers. But suffice it to vaguely say that a British secret-agent is sent to probe strange doings in the Sussex countryside, and these events are then interwoven (in the first half) with H.P. Lovecraft’s confession of his youthful encounter with an ancient horror.

* A new AI 1970s Sci-Fi Book Covers generator, on Glif.app. Glif.app appears to be yet another of those ‘here today, gone tomorrow’ online AI generator sites at which you buy credits. But it has enough free-trial credits to try it out about ten times.

* New on Archive.org, the 1974 UK edition of New UFO Breakthrough. This is a real 1970s paperback and I had it when I was a lad. I would have read it alongside Lovecraft and R.E. Howard. Wow… looking at the book now I see I was sipping from a “big ol’ keg o’ hot moonshine”. Not just normal cloud-skimming UFOs here, but also orgone accumulators, serpent people from Atlantis, underwater UFOs, alchemists, and polar entrances to an ‘inner earth’. Great stuff for the imagination, though, and possibly also a sort of youthful ‘innoculation’ against pure moonshine.

* Talking of which, Erik Davis (author of the classic Techgnosis) has a new long review, of the 1990s The Invisibles DC comic-book series. One I missed encountering back then, as the comic-book scene largely crashed and burned. But according to Davis…

one of the great representative works of the 90s […] a sometimes brilliantly illustrated tale of a team of colorful mutant punks taking on Lovecraftian archons in a metaphysical postmodern blender […] the last gasp of high and mutant psychedelic subculture that stretches back through Hakim Bey, the Church of the Subgenius, Illuminatus!, the Merry Pranksters, and the Discordian Society

* And talking of boyhood influences equally as whacky, but rather more British, I see the BBC has newly turned their old Radiophonic Workshop core sound-bank into a purchasable archive for download. Doctor Who’s old sci-fi wooshes, splurts, blips and whizzles, yours to re-use… for $200. Or sci-fi/horror audio crafters could just pop over to the huge Freesound.org (which incidentally has recently been ingested into Stable Audio Open, the AI sound-FX generator) and get much the same for free.

* New on YouTube, the classic “The Night Wire” by H.F. Arnold (1926, Weird Tales). With period audio FX and a dramatized reading, in 22 minutes. In 1936 Lovecraft thought it one of the few old Weird Tales stories worth reprinting. He wrote of… “certain obscure but desirable items which have anciently appeared in W.T. [Weird Tales] or elsewhere. It would have been simply barbarous [for lack of reprinting] to prevent the present generation from reading The Canal, The Night Wire, Bells of Oceana, The Floor Above, Beyond the Door, etc.” — Lovecraft to Hoffmann Price, 1936.

* ‘Call of Cthulhu Live’ in summer 2025. An official five-city tour of the UK for Chaosium’s flagship tabletop RPG game.

* The usual tidal-wave of Lovecraftian videogames thunders in each week and Tentaclii never has the time to comb the beach afterwards. But this week I noticed not one but three new one-man indie videogames, and liked the sound and look of all of them. Do No Harm: A Doctor Simulator with a Lovecraftian Twist; The Stamp; and HPL: Nyarlathotep Rising.

* And finally, a thought. President Trump has several times expressed a hankering for a huge new ‘Garden of National Heroes’. It sounds like a new National Park that would contain many thousands of statues and other forms of sculpture, most likely set along verdant long-distance walking trails. Far bigger than a sculpture park, but smaller than the regular-size National Park. It thus occurs to me that, once the bidding-war is over and the winning U.S. state begins to establish the new Garden-Park, it might offer a secure home to the currently-homeless Lovecraft statue? Perhaps the statues of the nation’s horror writers (possibly only the greats who had to struggle heroicly for their art — Poe, Lovecraft, Smith?) might be displayed inside a deep and dark natural rock-cleft? That would afford some protection from spray-can jockeys, while also offering suitable ambience and lighting. A cleft with the stars still visible above at night.


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[I found myself in …] “a dank, foetid, reed-choak’d marsh under a grey autumn sky, with a rugged cliff of lichen-crusted stone rising to the north. […] I ascended a rift or cleft in this beetling precipice, noting as I did so the black mouths of many fearsome burrows extending from both walls into the depths of the stony plateau. At several points the passage was roof’d over by the choaking of the upper parts of the narrow fissure; these places being exceedingly dark, & forbidding the perception of such burrows as may have existed there. In one such dark space I felt conscious of a singular accession of fright, as if some subtile & bodiless emanation from the abyss were ingulphing my spirit; but the blackness was too great for me to perceive the source of my alarm. At length I emerg’d upon a table-land of moss-grown rock & scanty soil, lit up by a faint moonlight which had replac’d the expiring orb of day. Casting my eyes about, I beheld no living object; but was sensible of a very peculiar stirring far below me, amongst the whispering rushes of the pestilential swamp I had lately quitted. […]” — Lovecraft to Donald Wandrei, November 1927.

The poet enters a dark, sinister and ever-narrowing valley …

The walls contracted as I went
Still farther in my mad descent,
Till soon, of moon and stars bereft,
I crouch’d within a rocky cleft
So deep and ancient that the stone
Breath’d things primordial and unknown.
My hands, exploring, strove to trace
The features of the valley’s face,
When midst the gloom they seem’d to find
An outline frightful to my mind.

— Lovecraft, part of a poem he sent to Kleiner, 1918.


HPLinks #16 – Lovecraft Imagined, imagining Northumberland, manifest destiny, AI shoggoths, and more.

05 Thursday Dec 2024

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Welcome to HPLinks #16.

* S.T. Joshi’s latest blog post brings news of a new Ken Faig Jr. book, The Skull of Roger Williams: Lovecraft Imagined. In Joshi’s words, this offers…

powerful and poignant stories (and even a play or two) featuring Lovecraft as a character, along with some of his close family members; Clark Ashton Smith and R. H. Barlow appear in one of the pieces. If you’re looking for over-the-top horror tales with liberal doses of gruesomeness, you should go elsewhere; but if you’re interested in deeply moving portrayals of Lovecraft and his family as they actually lived their lives from the 1890s to the 1930s, written by one of the most learned and sensitive of Lovecraft’s biographers, this is a volume you will not want to miss.

Sounds good. Available now, as a 440-page paperback or as a budget ebook.

* In Italian in this week’s edition of the newspaper Domani, a long feature-article on “L’inferno artificiale di Lovecraft: come costrui il suo Northumberland senza esserci stato” (‘Lovecraft’s artificial hell: how he built his Northumberland without having been there’). Related, and linked to by the article, is an essay on “Lovecraft Archaeology”.

* Deep Cuts blog remembers Philomena Hart and her tangential connection with Lovecraft. She was the wife of Bertrand Hart, long a favourite newspaper columnist in Providence and one who tangled with Lovecraft in print.

* The work of Alfred North Whitehead, a British philosopher whose 1920s works influenced Lovecraft, is now in the public domain. Thus, new this week, we now have Whitehead’s acclaimed and seminal Science and the Modern World (1925) as a LibriVox audiobook.

* The latest Typebar Magazine has “An Unintended Critique of Manifest Destiny in H.P. Lovecraft’s At The Mountains of Madness”. The author states he worked on it long, and it is now… “available on Patreon for magazine subscribers now, it’ll be available in a month or so for non-subscribers to read online.”

* In a South American open-access journal “La metafora del shoggoth en la inteligencia artificial” (‘The shoggoth metaphor in artificial intelligence’). The PDF has an English abstract.

* Up for auction, in France, original Druillet Lovecraft artwork from the 1970s.

* This week, John Coulthart outlines the edition history of his Yuggoth collage.

* I see that the £122 Routledge academic book Critical Approaches to Horror Comic Books (2022) had a chapter on “Tanabe Gou’s Manga Adaptations of H.P. Lovecraft”.

* Wormwoodiana blog has a new post on Arthur Machen and the Sherlock Holmes stories.

* Who knew that Bram Stoker wrote a book of fairy tales, as well as the famous Dracula? Yup.

* A special ‘Haunted Midlands’ issue of the regional history journal Midland History. This being the English Midlands of the UK. Appears to be free to access, at present. Serious articles, not contemporary ‘ghost-hunter’ piffle and confabulation.

* The World Fantasy Convention 2025, set for the south coast of the UK, now has its two themes: ‘Lyrical Fantasy’ and ’50 Years of British Fantasy and Horror’.

* A call-for-papers for Youth and Horror: An International Conference.

* The new £130 Routledge academic book Entering the Multiverse (2024) has a chapter on “The Arkham Horror Multiverse”. With a focus on fan-interaction in the form of fan-guides for the game, which aim to boost the pleasures to be had from the… “endless world-building that comes from ludifying [i.e. ‘making game-like’] Lovecraft”.

* New on Archive.org, a run of Unbound fanzine, which offered a range of fan-written Call of Cthulhu (Chaosium) adventures in the 2010s. Including a set for solo players.

* A new Creative Commons open ebook on Hybrid Monsters in the Aegean Bronze Age. A bit niche, but it may appeal to writers or RPG makers seeking monster ideas from the deep past.

* Mythos writers may also be interested to know that the CQuill offline fiction-writing software is now available for Mac, albeit in an experimental but working version. A few days ago I was able to get a discounted copy of the Pro version for Windows, in the Black Friday sales. Having Pro means I’ll be able to make a Lovecraft ‘Style Assistant’ for it, when I find time sometime in 2025. I guess I may then share the Assistant via my Patreon. The standard version of CQuill is free, and only lightly crippled — it will load (but not create) an Assistant from an author’s works.

* And finally, a reminder that The S.T. Joshi Endowed Research Fellowship in H.P. Lovecraft application deadline is 17th January 2025. The awardee gets to swish around the Brown campus with up to $5k in their back pocket, while researching Lovecraft.


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“… you have no doubt read reports of the discovery of the new trans-Neptunian planet […] a thing which excites me more than any other happening of recent times. […] Asteroidal discovery does not mean much — but a major planet — a vast unknown world — is quite another matter. I have always wished I could live to see such a thing come to light — & here it is! The first real planet to be discovered since 1846, & only the third in the history of the human race! One wonders what it is like, & what dim-litten fungi may sprout coldly on its frozen surface! I think I shall suggest its being named Yuggoth!” — Lovecraft on his reaction to the discovery of the planet Pluto, in a letter to Miss Toldridge of April 1930.

A new mega-observatory in Chile is now coming online, with the largest camera ever built, and it should be able to easily find the ‘Planet X’. Recent research shows this very likely rolls in an unknown orbit far beyond Pluto, and some 80% of the likely locations have now been discounted. The current best estimate is that, when found in 2025 or 2026, the planet will be around 6.66 times the mass of the Earth. An ominous number.


HPLinks #9 – swamps, theory, a century of Rats, a new bio graphic-novel, and more

14 Monday Oct 2024

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HPLinks #9.

“[in the] foreign colonies one sees a gradual Americanisation” — Lovecraft to Toldridge, February 1932.


* Sky News Italy reports on a new graphic novel about the master H.P. Lovecraft…

Recounting the life of the famous writer in a dreamlike and imaginary way, a soon-to-be-published graphic novel combines biographical and fantastic features to explore the genesis of H.P.’s literary works.

The chunky new graphic novel is HPL – Una vita di Lovecraft. By writer and cartoonist Marco Taddei, illustrated by Maurizio Lacavalla. Lacavalla has a rough and inky style that reminds me a little of Nicole Claveloux…

To be published in Italian by Edizioni BD. The 234-page table-trembler was launched in September at the Treviso Comic Book Festival, Italy, and is set for general release on 15th October 2024. Amazon UK shows an affordable £9 Kindle version (presumably with a free-sample on release), while Amazon Italy has both the digital and dead-tree versions.

* L’Antique Sentier has a well-illustrated new blog post on “La decadence de Red Hook”, in French, with extended translation of Lovecraft’s letters. Worth seeing for the pictures alone, though of course you can auto-translate.

* Swamp Atlas has a new and long survey of marshes, bogs and swamps in H.P. Lovecraft’s works, including those found in the poetry. In Italian.

* From 2012 but new to me, “H.P. Lovecraft: creencia estetica y asentimiento intelectual”. Freely available as part of the Catalonian open-access journal Taula. Examines the formation of…

Lovecraft’s theory of cosmic horror” arising from “the deep connection between his narratives and scientific images of the world, his distinctions between intellectual assent and aesthetic belief and between the mundanely gruesome and true cosmic fear.” Also notes how this feeds into… “the metaphysical assumptions that underpin his late literature.

* Free in open-access from Brazil, the 294-page ebook As Nuances Do Gotico: do setecentos a atualidade (‘The Nuances of Gothic: from the 17th century to the present’) (2023). The lead essay is on the modern nature of the monstrosity revealed in Lovecraft’s “The Shadow Over Innsmouth”.

* The German Lovecraftians reported in September that the latest annual… “double-issue of our magazine Lovecrafter is nearing completion”. This year the magazine takes the topics of ‘Edgar Allan Poe’ / ‘Lovecraft and the cinema’.

* In France, the article “The Rats in the Walls: un centenaire, mon chat, et la restauration monumentale” celebrates the centenary of “The Rats in the Walls”. Freely available online, in French.

* A review of the new Dagon videogame adaptation, as played on the PlayStation console, from PlayStation Universe…

Dagon Complete Edition is a captivating, engaging, and informative piece of content that truly loves and respects H.P. Lovecraft. […] the visual quality is so enjoyable and vivid that the [one hour of] bare-bones gameplay never wears out its welcome.

The reviewer usefully notes that one of the DLC easter-eggs is a cel-shaded toon adaptation of Lovecraft’s very juvenile tale “The Little Glass Bottle”, written when the budding master was about seven years old.

* Horacio Lalia: Una Vida Dibujada, a 2023 book on the life and work of an acclaimed comics artist. He has produced several books of Lovecraft adaptations, among his other horror comics.

* New to me, a collection of comic-book adaptations HPL Vol. 1: Comic Adaptations of the Works of H.P. Lovecraft, all by Canadian Nick O’Gorman. “Beyond the Wall of Sleep”, “The Statement of Randolph Carter”, “The Music of Erich Zann”, “The Doom that Came for Sarnath”, and “The Cats of Ulthar”. Apparently the Herbert West: Reanimator serial is also made to fit into the book’s 156 pages, and thus I guess we should expect a little truncation. Published by Target Destroyed in summer 2023, and available as a budget Kindle ebook as well as in paper. The maker (I think I had previously noted his recent Imprisoned with the Pharaohs comic-book adaptation) expects to eventually illustrate all Lovecraft’s works in this way, culminating with “At The Mountains of Madness”. The Vol. 1 book is “quite violent and gory” says one reviewer, so it’s not a kiddie-comics edition of Lovecraft.

* In Spain, the citizens of the city of Pamplona celebrates their link with Lovecraft, in the form of a new book…

In 1927, the American writer H.P. Lovecraft had a strange dream that took him to ancient Pompaelo [Pamplona]. An illustrated book will recreate the story that was left unfinished. Lovecraft dreamed that he was an Ancient Roman and was undergoing the ancestral rites of the so-called ‘mountain people’. Almost a hundred years later, author and editor Oihane Amantegi and illustrator Unai Gonzalez have come together to create the first adaptation of Lovecraft’s dream-story. In order to carry it out, they have launched a crowdfunding campaign on the Verkami platform. […] the story shows the extensive knowledge that Lovecraft had of ancient history, of Hispania [Spain] and of the Basques in particular.

It’s already been handsomely crowd-funded, with 23 days still to go.

* In table-top games, a big crowdfunder for Trail of Cthulhu 2E (2nd edition) is being launched about now. Trail is a core Lovecraftian investigation RPG that uses the Gumshoe play system.

* A new links page for Bob Byrne’s collected Robert E. Howard essays posted at Black Gate.

* Archive.org is still offline, after a serious hack. The Wayback Machine is back online today, though in read-only mode. The Archive is reportedly due back in “days, not weeks”, apparently. When it’s back, you may want to save out your own torrent magnets and host them on a blog post etc as a backup. So long as you’re still seeding what you posted, your files should (theoretically) then still be available to the public even if the Archive goes down again.

* And finally, the largest exploration spacecraft ever built has today successfully launched on a SpaceX rocket. The craft will search for evidence of alien life in the dark waters below a frozen ocean, on a large and mysterious moon near the edge of the Solar System. Very Lovecraftian!


— End-quote —

“There recently appeared before the public a rather unsophisticated volume entitled Pollyanna, which preached a sweetly artificial doctrine of converting ills into blessings by the contemplation of possible calamities still more direful. [Though the book proved a success with girl readers,] poor Pollyanna became the target of every penny-a-line hack reviewer and little-wit in Grub-Street [i.e. mass-market journalism]. They loftily demonstrated that the easing of melancholy by force of imagination is a vastly unscientific thing. Impossible, they vowed! Or, even if possible, it ought not to be […] The New York Tribune, in fact, deemed the inoffensive Pollyanna sufficiently culpable to merit a sneering editorial. So runs the worldly-wise current of twentieth-century life! Your modern philosopher had rather be mature and miserable, than childlike and contented; and he deems you a monstrous imbecile if you can be happy at a time when he thinks you have not sufficient cause to be happy. Heaviness of spirit, he doth asseverate, is a sacred obligation of every thoughtful and responsible citizen. [… I confess to] no little amusement at the wailing of these worshippers of morbid maturity. […] It is dangerous to dabble in realities, and if more of us were able to retain the happy illusions of our infancy, those illusions would be so much nearer truth [in reality, and yet meanwhile] on the pleasures of the fancy rests all the mighty framework of art, poesy, and song”. — H.P. Lovecraft, “In the Editor’s Study”, October 1916.

The Selenite Invaders / Listing of Lovecraft in paperback 1944-1994

03 Wednesday Jul 2024

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S.T. Joshi’s blog has updated with a post giving lots of news. Take a look to see everything. The three items that stood out for me were: i) the first part of his massive survey-history of atheism (from prehistory to 1600) is now in proof, and is being hand-indexed; and ii) Ken Faig Jr. has a Lovecraft-as-character novel out, The Selenite Invaders…

This engaging novel features a character (Herbert Hereward) clearly based on Lovecraft, and other elements of this science fiction tale echo events in the life of Lovecraft or his relatives. The novel spans much of the twentieth century, showing Hereward (unlike Lovecraft) repurchasing his birthplace at 454 Angell Street [plot spoilers … ] all while battling [plot spoilers].

I’m pleased to see there’s an affordable Kindle ebook edition of this on Amazon UK. Don’t read the blurb there, unless you want possible plot spoilers.

Also iii) news of the forthcoming booklet H.P. Lovecraft in Paperback Books: The First 50 Years. The page linked suggests the full title is A Complete Listing Of All the English Language Editions Of The Collected Works of H.P. Lovecraft In Paperback Books With Cover Art And Printing History 1944-1994.

Round the bend with Lovecraft

01 Monday Apr 2024

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Two unusual items on Archive.org, Theory of multidreams: a cosmic-dream investigation by H.P. Lovecraft (2017), and Shadows Bend: a novel of the fantastic and unspeakable (2006) featuring Lovecraft as a leading character.

Cliff notes

16 Friday Feb 2024

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For this week’s ‘Picture Postals from Lovecraft’, a glimpse of the lower depths of Brooklyn Heights. Atop which Samuel Loveman and Hart Crane lived, with magnificent riverine views. Views of the sort I’ve shown in several previous ‘Picture Postals’, along with pinpointing the exact locations involved.

But here the artist Charles Locke does what a good artist does, namely the opposite of what the herd are doing. Instead of the usual river vista he shows us the ‘depths’ of Brooklyn Heights, with the residential heights glimpsed soaring above. The walker on the sidewalk might almost be Lovecraft. The delivery man could almost be delivering more refrigeration equipment to Dr. Munoz (“Cool Air”). Above, out of sight, Loveman works on his poetry.

It looks like the artist’s view is at about the level of the footings of the Brooklyn Bridge, which is partially seen in the distance. One can imagine walking this scene in the dark, it must have felt — and probably smelt, due to the proximity of the river — quite Stygian. Lovecraft hints at the smell when he described Brooklyn Heights (talking of the part on the edge of Red Hook) as…

within sight of the sea, and with an old-world air of musty stateliness which to many suggests parts of London

“Musty” indeed. The water in the vicinity was not today’s relatively clean water, in which whales and dolphins now regularly cavort for New York City tourists.

Frank Belknap Long also briefly noticed the cliff-like topography of Brooklyn Heights. In his “The Space Eaters” (1929) he had Lovecraft-as-character…

Howard [Lovecraft] walked to the window. He drew back the curtains and gazed for a moment at the crowded harbor and the tall, white buildings that towered against the moon. He was staring at the skyline of lower Manhattan. Sheer beneath him the cliffs of Brooklyn Heights loomed darkly.

“Why didn’t they conquer?” he cried. “They could have destroyed us utterly. They could have wiped us from Earth.”

[…] I walked to the window and remained for a long time staring at Manhattan. There [in this view], I thought, is something substantial. It is absurd to imagine that anything could destroy it. It is absurd to imagine that the horror was really as terrible as it seemed to us […]. I must persuade Howard not to write about it.

And finally, I’ve found more or less the nocturne view they were looking at.

Anton Schutz, Lower Manhattan, seen from Brooklyn Heights in 1931.

Not quite on-the-dot in terms of the year of either Lovecraft’s first view of the city in this manner, or of Long’s 1929 tale. Also from a quarter mile further south (Montague Terrace). Crane could also see the Statue of Liberty, here unseen but off to the left. But the picture is probably as good as we’ll get until I find something even better.

There was also a colour version of the above, looking like a precursor for what would become the risen and dream-twisting R’lyeh.

Le Dernier Jour d’Howard Philip Lovecraft

25 Thursday Jan 2024

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A new quick official video peep at the art for the new graphic novel Le Dernier Jour d’Howard Philip Lovecraft, or more accurately a ‘BD’ (being the French/Belgian format of a large-format and relatively short but high-quality graphic-novel in hardback).

This led me to another video which reveals the 5,000(!)-copy printing sold out over Christmas and it’s reprinting (“a new printing has taken place”). This video also has a flip-through giving a quick preview of the interior art and layout. Possible spoilers.

Hopefully the success will encourage an English translation and ebook version.

Medieval cats and braces

23 Tuesday Jan 2024

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For ‘Kitty Tuesday’, a new Medieval cats LORA for your PC’s local AI image-generator. Cats as seen on medieval manuscripts. That was when they had rocket-cats. Really…

Also a new Retro Men’s Suspenders Outfit LORA, which could be useful for those making an ‘H.P. Lovecraft as character’ comic or 1920s-50s Call of Cthulhu RPG artwork with AI image generation. In British English, suspenders = braces.

So far as I’m aware, he used a firm belt rather than braces, but the LORA is certainly depicting a key aspect of his era.

Moore Lovecraft

28 Saturday Oct 2023

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New on Archive.org, an academic book on Alan Moore: Out from the Underground (2018), one of the Palgrave series which discussed comics and graphic novels.

Has little to say about Lovecraft, but does show that the Lovecraft influence was strongly present as early as 1969…

Having met the young Dave Womack at the second British comics convention in 1969, he [Moore] sent him some illustrations and an article on Lovecraft, the latter of which featured in the first issue of his dual comics fanzine/adzine Utopia/Valhalla in February 1970.

And adds one more item to the list of early Lovecraft as character appearances…

Moore’s “Breakdown” in Embryo 4 [circa 1971?] had similar Orwellian themes (‘Cold terminal eyes in the control chamber fingerbutton proseflash’) and ends with a conversation between Orwell, Lovecraft, and Ray Bradbury.

Embryo #4 is a zine that doesn’t appear to be on Archive.org.

Summer of Lovecraft

18 Tuesday Jul 2023

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The German city of Hamburg appears to be enjoying a “Summer of Lovecraft”. With at least three outdoor theatre productions in the city’s main park. Stagings of “Innsmouth”, “Dagon”, which have seemingly already happened. And now a possibly localised or new “The Horror of Hamburg”. This latter being a promenade “theatrical walk through Hamburg’s city park”, with an appearance by HPL himself…

An eerie theatre walk through undiscovered corners of the park. Actors stand at special places in the park, presenting particularly famous Lovecraft stories as monologues, while the master personally provides clarifications and biographical facts.

10 performances across 22nd, 23rd, 29th and 30th July, free admission.

Miscellaneous Writings

15 Saturday Jul 2023

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New on Archive.org to borrow, Miscellaneous Writings. Most will have access to this material elsewhere. But some may want to look up old ‘page-number references’, found in scholarly writing on Lovecraft, that they have been unable to check due to lack of access.

Talking of once-obscure items, S.T. Joshi brings news of a “major auction of books and other matter devoted to the field of weird fiction”, set for Halloween 2023 at Bonhams in Boston. Sounds like the plot of a Mythos story, already. What may interest readers of Tentaclii is that Bonhams are still seeking consignments of quality/rare eldritch items for the auction. In that regard, don’t forget there’s also PulpFest 2023 in August.

Joshi’s latest blog post also spots a late ‘Lovecraft as character’ appearance, at the end of the movie Incident in a Ghostland (2018), and he useful identifies the actor.

Out Of Mind (1998)

13 Tuesday Jun 2023

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New to me, the well-made film Out Of Mind: The Stories of H.P. Lovecraft (1998), now in full on YouTube at 720px…

Made for Canadian television in 1998, the film offers an encounter with Lovecraft and enters into his world. Engaging in a kind of ‘game’ around the writer, the film playfully winks at some of the themes characteristic of his work: the occult, cursed books, monstrous creatures. Out of Mind draws its inspiration from Lovecraft’s personal correspondence and many of his stories, carrying the viewer through a labyrinth ‘beyond the wall of sleep’.

Also to be had on Archive.org. As well as being a 57 minute TV movie it was also released on VHS tape, but Amazon UK knows nothing of it.

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