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Deutsche Lovecraft / Lovecrafter

19 Tuesday Nov 2019

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Registration will open soon for the Deutsche Cthulhu Convention in Germany. I spotted a deadline of February 2020 for payment, presumably for a summer 2020 event.

Last noted here very briefly in 2014, the event seems to be a large German Cthulhu convention hosted by the German Lovecraft Society in a castle in Lower Saxony. Their tablet-tastic site doesn’t play nicely with Google Translate, so I can’t quite get a sense of how gamer/scholarly the event’s balance is. But they appear to have some sort of core symposium element.

Finding it made me aware of their Lovecrafter magazine. Here’s the pleasing cover of the July 2018 issue, and paper copies are available by mail-order.

Within are…

* A look at a horror and fantasy fanzine of the 1970s (presumably a German one).

* Lovecraft, the first 50 years – a survey of publishing Lovecraft in Germany, with publisher interviews.

* Fear of the Known – on the myths of Lovecraft in the digital world.

* Between protest and delusion – Cthulthu’s role in 1968.

… and some RPG game stuff.

Moi, Lovecraft

14 Thursday Nov 2019

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Moi, Lovecraft is a new book illustrated by Yann Sougey-Fils, with texts by Jean-Christophe Malevil. H.P. Lovecraft returns to the hospital on 10th March 1937, and in the five days before his death he “tells his story in the first person”.

It’s from the tiny press Editions des Tourments, and runs 112 pages. It doesn’t seem to be using the letters translated to French, but I’m guessing it may perhaps be counterpointing scenes from Lovecraft’s “death diary” with happier scenes from his life? Nor is it clear how heavily the book is illustrated.

Anyway, Moi, Lovecraft is published in French in about a week’s time. The same artist has a 64-page colour ‘BD’ French comics adaptation of The Dreams in the Witch House, to be published by the same press alongside Moi, Lovecraft. 64-pages is standard in France, and as such it’s not quite what the Anglosphere would call ‘a graphic novel’ (compared to the 130 pages of art one would expect here, in a 152 page trade paperback), more of a long graphic story.

Gage Prentiss bust

04 Monday Nov 2019

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Recently up for sale at The H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society, and sold, a Lovecraft Bust.

Gage Prentiss, the celebrated weird sculptor of Providence, has sculpted a life-sized statue of HPL which hopefully will soon have a permanent home in Providence. This bust of HPL is a replica of the full sized one, but at 10 inches by 5 inches, it’s much easier to ship and put on display in your home. It’s a tasteful and fitting tribute to the master of weird fiction.

Very appealing, and it definitely seems to evoke the dreamier side of Lovecraft.

Free book cover

29 Tuesday Oct 2019

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A few months back I spotted public domain scan on Archive.org, and realised that it could be re-purposed as a free book cover. I Photoshopped the text away, cleaned just a little, and made some small tweaks. I’ve just found it again, and this was the result…

Specifically, it made me imagine a book featuring a mystery-adventure with H.P. Lovecraft (left), Robert E. Howard (centre) and Frank Belknap Long (right) as the protagonists. Feel free to use this bit of inadvertent Lovecraftian art (1926 from Barcelona, Spain, originally) for the cover of such a lengthy tale, with the addition of suitable typography of the era.

I initially imagined such a tale set in New York City, but looking at it now… the desert-night colouration and faint hint of a pyramid-like mound in the background could suggest Lovecraft and Long making a long-distance visit to R.E. Howard in Texas, en route to a cruise across the Gulf of Mexico and a tour of the ruined temples of central America. Such an ambitious trip could be deemed to have been ‘financed by Long, who had come into a small family legacy’ etc.

Into The Weird

14 Monday Oct 2019

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Into The Weird, Episode 13. Continuing their mini-series of two-hour podcasts which discuss certain ‘weird’ issues of Marvel’s Bronze Age comic books in depth. This episode, another dive into…

Doctor Strange goodness with Marvel Premiere #7 and 8, where Stephen wades through yet another host of Lovecraftian foes.

Marvel Premiere was a relatively innovative (for 1970s Marvel) ‘try-out’ title which featured among others Starlin’s Warlock, Woodgod, Chaykin’s Starstalker, Solomon Kane, and Ploog’s Weirdworld.

“Herbert West” as a BD

09 Wednesday Oct 2019

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A French BD* adaptation of Lovecraft’s Home Brew shocker “Herbert West” by David Peeters. The book appears to have been released spring 2019 after a successful Kickstarter, and is now listed as sold out. Here’s a look at the black-and-white edition.

* BD = French shorthand term for a long comic-book, usually with a complete story, in their A4 ‘album’ format of at least 64 pages (sometimes 72 inc. cover).