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R.E. Howard’s Lovecraftian stories

31 Wednesday Oct 2012

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I thought I might read R.E. Howard’s six ‘Lovecraft influenced’ stories, for Halloween. As best I can make out from twenty minutes of cursory research, the R.E. Howard Lovecraftian-ish tales are…

* The best two:

  “The Black Stone”

  “The Children of the Night”

* Lesser two:

  “The Cairn on the Headland”

  “The Thing on the Roof”

* Two tangential stories:

  “Worms of the Earth” (Generally said to be the best Bran Mak Morn story, with a few Lovecraftian bits and bobs mentioned?)

  “The Fire of Asshurbanipal” (Reportedly, only the ending is relevant?)

All six are available in the audio book form in the collection The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard [on Amazon USA], read by veteran audio-book reader Robertson Dean. “The Black Stone” is also available for free as a less memorable audio reading.

It’s been quite a long time since I read Howard’s Conan et al, and it’ll be interesting to see what the original Howard experience is like in polished audio-book form. I read Howard as a boy, at about the same time I first read Lovecraft, via the UK Panther paperback collections: Skull-face; The Valley of the Worm; and The Shadow Kingdom. From there I went to the UK Sphere King Kull collection, Tigers of the Sea (Cormac mac Art in the UK paperback), then into the numerous UK Sphere Conan paperbacks (one or two of which were quite rare at that time, and it was difficult to gather a full set) and the Solomon Kane stories (possibly via a tatty import copy of the U.S. Centaur Books paperback). More recently I read one of his werewolf stories, but that’s been it until now.

Clark Ashton Smith to have a Penguin Classics volume

25 Thursday Oct 2012

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Super news from S.T. Joshi. He’s to edit a collection of Clark Ashton Smith for Penguin Classics. Stories, but also prose-poems and poems. Let’s hope the forthcoming merger with Random House doesn’t see the planned roster for Penguin Classics affected.

Joshi has also…

“been asked to be the keynote speaker at a conference on weird fiction to be hosted by Birkbeck College, [University of] London, around November 8, 2013”

beinArt 2012

24 Monday Sep 2012

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“Anomalies” — the beinArt group exhibition opens 13th October 2012 at Copro Gallery, California USA…

“The participating artists have been hand picked for their natural disposition towards the strange and deranged. … There will be paintings, drawings and sculptures of subjects that will deviate, distort and mystify. Human oddities, anatomical wonders, freaks, geeks & gaffs. Step right up and peek inside the beinArt Collective’s cabinet of curiosities! The beinArt Collective was formed to increase public awareness of strange figurative art, in galleries, online and in print [and aims to be] testimony to a huge international movement of figurative artists who have resisted current trends in the art world and remained true to their artistic vision.”

Providence

23 Sunday Sep 2012

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Was it something I said? Last weekend I posted on this blog about the need for a graphic novel of Lovecraft’s life. I mentioned 1919.

Yesterday, the great Alan Moore announced his return to graphic novels… with no less than a work titled Providence, set in 1919 and starring H.P. Lovecraft. The ten-issue series will be published under the imprint of Avatar Press.