16 Friday Aug 2013
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, NecronomiCon 2013
Behind-the-scenes article on the Call of Lovecraft augmented reality app set for launch at NecronomiCon Providence 2013…
“the augmented reality walking tour of Providence. We’ve brought together academic research, creative placemaking, game making, and developing technologies.”
11 Sunday Aug 2013
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, Podcasts etc.
A perfectly-delivered free reading of Lovecraft’s near-hilarious over-the-top story “The Hound” (1922), courtesy of Lawrence Santoro at Tales to Terrify.
Above: from “The Hound” adaptation by Steve Beach.
Could be neatly followed by the free reading of Frank Belknap Long’s “The Hounds Of Tindalos” (1931) by Lewis Morgan.
07 Wednesday Aug 2013
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, New books
The Pnakotic Atlas is a planned $5 app of all of Lovecraft’s fictional and used-in-fiction places, with HPL’s fiction annotated with geo-codes and then wrapped up as a device app. The developers, Audacious Software, are currently seeking artists to provide “visual depictions for each location” on a profit-share / retain-copyright basis.
31 Wednesday Jul 2013
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, New books
Hernan Rodriguez of Uruguay in South America has a complete free comic adaptation of “Nyarlathotep” in English, from his two Spanish-language comics collections containing his Lovecraft adaptations…
30 Tuesday Jul 2013
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
Young Tabbystardust gives Caspar a makeover…
Incidentally, if you’re interested in the differences between the textbook sublime and Lovecraft’s version of it, there’s an excellent article on that in Lovecraft Annual 2011.
30 Tuesday Jul 2013
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
I’m not sure that the Horny Tolkien Love-nymphs are strictly mythos, but here’s the poster for an annual Lovecraft art-show in August 2013…
21 Sunday Jul 2013
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
Lovecraft creatures recreated in the Creature Creator module of the videogame Spore…
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14 Sunday Jul 2013
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
A new crowdfunding campaign on IndieGoGo, The Call of Lovecraft…
“an augmented reality walking tour of Providence inspired by the vision of H.P. Lovecraft, with historical, literary, and fantasy layers.”
14 Sunday Jul 2013
Posted in 3D, Lovecraftian arts
Super faux pulp cover by Paul Francis, showing his other faux covers, all made with Poser Pro and Photoshop.
03 Wednesday Jul 2013
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, New books
Interesting new work of fiction, due in October. The Natural Dissolution of Fleeting-Improvised-Men: The Last Letter of H.P. Lovecraft by Gabriel Blackwell. Seems to be inspired by Lovecraft’s stream-of-consciousness style sections sometimes to be found in the Letters, usually in a reverie over a particular landscape he’s experienced. Only Blackwell pins the style to performative delvings into the nature of the self. The new book is 194 pages, complete with faux annotations and precise typographical design. Sounds like a fascinating little fabulation.
“I found myself no longer at my desk and without my body, sprung whole from the womb of human existence and cast out into the shrieking wilds of the barren, ghoulish fifth dimension once more… Instead of unconsciousness, it was now a purer sort of consciousness, I thought, the roaming of a dreaming brain without any of the snares set by the nerves, so that I felt as though I had no body, as though my vision had no connection to the eye.”
[ Hat-tip for quote: Whimsy of Creation ]
02 Tuesday Jul 2013
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
NecronomiCon Providence 2013, the poster…
01 Monday Jul 2013
Posted in Historical context, Lovecraftian arts, New books, Scholarly works, Summer School
Available now in paperback… my latest book collection of essays:
Lovecraft in Historical Context: fourth collection.
A book of essays is now an annual tradition with me, and this year’s volume weighs in at 304 pages, 76,000 words. Contains many expanded and footnoted versions of blog posts which first appeared here — for instance the essay “The terribly nice old ladies” zooms up to 12,000 words as I delve into the source landscape of “The Dunwich Horror”. Long-time Lovecraft researchers may be especially interested in 4,000 words of highly detailed scholarship which lays out the complete circus/theatrical and movie executive career of Arthur Leeds prior to the Kalem Club, accompanied by the first known photograph of him and a newly discovered Leeds short story that is an obvious inspiration for “Cool Air”.
Enjoy!
PART ONE: General essays
1. Typhon as a source for Cthulhu.
2. Arthur Leeds : the early biography, photographic portraits, and a story.
3. The terribly nice old ladies : Miniter and Beebe at Wilbraham.
4. A source for Rev. Abijah Hoadley in “The Dunwich Horror”.
5. An unknown H.P. Lovecraft correspondent?
6. Shards from H.P. Lovecraft’s quarry.
7. Of Rats and Legions : H.P. Lovecraft in Northumbria.
8. Looking into the Shining Trapezohedron.
9. Notes made after reading R.E. Howard’s key ‘Lovecraftian’ stories.
10. H.P. Lovecraft’s cinema ticket booth job, circa 1930.
11. Garrett P. Serviss (1851—1929) : a major influence on H.P. Lovecraft.
12. John Howard Appleton (1844—1930).
13. Tsan-Chan in Tibet : Tibetan Bon devils and Lovecraft’s future empire.
14. The locations of Sonia’s two hat shops.
15. In the hollows of memory : H.P. Lovecraft’s Seekonk and Cat Swamp.
16. A note on “The Paxton”.
17. Rabid! A note on H.P. Lovecraft and the disease rabies.
18. Pictures of some members of the Providence Amateur Press Club.
19. H.P. Lovecraft and his Young Men’s Club.
20. A few additions for Anna Helen Crofts (1889-1975).
21. An annotated “The History of the Necronomicon”. — sample
PART TWO: Finding Lovecraft’s most elusive correspondents
1. Wesley and Stetson : Providence models for Wilcox in “Cthulhu”?
2. Geo. FitzPatrick of Sydney : the Australian correspondent.
3. A likely candidate for the H.P. Lovecraft correspondent C.L. Stuart.
4. Curtis F. Myers (1897-?)
5. Sounding the Bell : finding a long ‘lost’ Lovecraft correspondent.
6. The fannish activity of Louis C. Smith.
7. Fred Anger after H.P. Lovecraft.
8. Reds and pinks : the politics of Woodburn Prescott Harris.
9. A note on H.P. Lovecraft’s British correspondent, Arthur Harris.
10. On Poe : Horatio Elwin Smith (1886-1946).
11. Gardens of delight? Thomas Stuart Evans (1885-1940).
12. The Hatter : Dudley Charles Newton (1864-1954).
Thanks for the cover art to Cotton Valent and Apolonis Aphrodisia.