30 Wednesday Oct 2019
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
29 Tuesday Oct 2019
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, Odd scratchings, REH
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.
14 Monday Oct 2019
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
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.
13 Sunday Oct 2019
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, Podcasts etc., Unnamable
Ask Lovecraft on top form, on the topics of Writing Letters and Modern Readers.
09 Wednesday Oct 2019
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
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).
07 Monday Oct 2019
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
In Germany…
Comic strip artist and illustrator Andreas Hartung from Berlin and The Dunwich Orchestra are adapting H.P. Lovecraft’s classic weird-fiction story “The Color from Space” as a dark, episodic multimedia picture show with an atmospheric live soundtrack and a matching stage show.
The “Lovecraft as a multimedia picture show” article runs through Google Translate fine, and the foot of the article has links to two YouTube videos of part of the show.
06 Sunday Oct 2019
Posted in Historical context, Lovecraftian arts
It wasn’t just wall-to-wall hippies, back in 1966. Here we see evidence for the spreading of the word about Lovecraft to mystery buffs, via the Edgar Wallace Mystery Magazine (March 1966). One assumes that “The Festival” was provided for free by Derleth, in exchange for the intro blurb which strongly puffs the three Arkham House volumes of Lovecraft.
01 Tuesday Oct 2019
Posted in Kittee Tuesday, Lovecraftian arts
26 Thursday Sep 2019
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
Richard Stanley gave a short interview to a local Austin newspaper. One of those annoying local newspapers in the USA which spams the world with its headlines and links… and then brutally blocks all visitors from outside America, displaying a message that make the said visitors feel like a criminal hacker.
But anyway… there’s a free VPN in my Opera browser, so here for all the world to read are some of the article’s Lovecraft and Howard-relevant quotes from Stanley.
His successful new Colour Out of Space movie is “designed for late nights where most of the audience would have to be slightly drunk or on some kind of substance or another.”
“He was my mother’s favorite author,” Stanley says. “She read me Lovecraft when I was a child. … I would have read ‘Color’ myself by the time I was 12.”
“Before I die, I would very much love to do a proper, fully blown sword-and-sorcery movie. I’ve mostly made science fiction, but I’m a big fantasy guy. There’s plenty of unfinished business out there.”
25 Wednesday Sep 2019
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, New books
A new 96-page art-story book from France, Les Carnets de Lovecraft: La Cite sans nom (translates as ‘Lovecraft’s Notebooks: The City With No Name’). At first I thought it might be Lovecraft’s Commonplace Book with entries faced with pleasingly traditional pen-and-ink sketches. But it seems it’s a heavily illustrated edition of “The Nameless City” in French translation. The book is due 16th October 2019.
The same young artist did a heavily illustrated “Dagon” book in the same series, released August 2019. This art sample, done in pencil, indicates the approach of the Les Carnets de Lovecraft series. Not an artnovel or a ‘BD’ (short graphic novel), but a heavily illustrated book of a short story.
24 Tuesday Sep 2019
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
A few of the newly-posted Lovecraftian illustrations on DeviantArt, since the last such post here at Tentaclii…
“Cthulu” by Moebius emulator FoxyTomcat of the USA.
Qodaet (Eder Nogueira) of Brazil is doing a Lovecraft series in red crayon, with a somewhat ‘brass-rubbing’ look to them.
Altar of the Faceless God – Nyarlathotep by TRXPICS. See also his March 2019 Yog Sothoth.
Wanderer Of The Misty Dreamlands by OliverInk of the USA.
23 Monday Sep 2019
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, New books
New from Hippocampus Press, the book Providence After Dark and Other Writings by T.E.D. Klein. Currently on their “New” page with a shipping date of “November 2019”.
Of Lovecraft interest…
I. On Lovecraft
Providence After Dark.
The United Amateur.
A Dreamer’s Tales [introduction to the 5th edition of Dagon and Other Macabre Tales, Arkham House, 1986].
Remembering Arkham House.
The Festival [recollections of the First World Fantasy Convention, Providence 1975].
The Old Gent.
T.E.D. Klein: Master of Ceremonies [1987 interview by Carl T. Ford].
II. On Other Authors
Frank Belknap Long.
etc…
Discovering the first place of publication for his First World Fantasy Convention report led me to a new booklet cover featuring Lovecraft, new in the sense that I hadn’t seen it before. The 52-page booklet had what appear to be three heavyweight convention reports all focused around musings on Lovecraft and Providence. I wouldn’t mind reading it but I see it’s become mildly collectable, so the price is now beyond me, and it’s not yet on Archive.org.
