H.P.L. in N.Y.C.
13 Thursday Jun 2019
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Category Archives: Lovecraftian arts
Kittee Tuesday: Frederick J. Waugh
11 Tuesday Jun 2019
Posted in Kittee Tuesday, Lovecraftian arts
Celebrating H.P. Lovecraft’s keen interest in our mysterious felines.
Frederick J. Waugh. Book-plate design, 1898.
Three surveys
10 Monday Jun 2019
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, Odd scratchings
Black Gate has a new survey of “The Weird Tales Anthologies”. With covers and some tables of contents. It’s not comprehensive but lays out what you might find cheaply and has useful brief assessments. Note that some of the book covers may not be “safe for work”, in these prudish days.
Another new survey is a detailed evaluation by The Pulp Hermit of the run of Bronze Shadows, the ground-breaking early Doc Savage / Shadow fanzine which ran for 15 issues in the 1960s. Altus Press also has an evaluation of its place in history, in “Bronze Shadows & The Moon Man”.
Also in the category of retrospectiva posts, Murray Ewing has a new long post in which he revisits Erich von Daniken’s influential Chariots of the Gods? book and its claims…
Von Daniken’s own method mostly consists of rhetoric rather than proof. [His] technique is to find oddities, puzzles, and things that the average reader might be surprised to find in the ancient world, then point at them and say, “Well, who can say it’s not aliens?”
The making of Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth
09 Sunday Jun 2019
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PC Gamer this weeks reprints on the Web an article from “issue 172 of Retro Gamer” (not on Archive.org). It’s a long and detailed insider account of “The making of Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth“. The game was made in the early 2000s and it’s widely hailed as one of the most authentic and lovingly-made Lovecraftian videogames. It was largely developed in the West Midlands of England, if I recall correctly, somewhere just north of Birmingham.
The best free HD texture-makeover I could find in a few minutes of searching is the HDR ReShade together with step-by-step install instructions…
Call: Ars Necronomica 2019
08 Saturday Jun 2019
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Ars Necronomica 2019. The ‘Call for Art’ is now online for the NecronomiCon Providence art show(s), with an image submission deadline of 15th June 2019.
The call also has a Web link to a Flickr catalogue of previous shows.
Picture: art by Richard Sardinha, work on show at NecronomiCon Providence.
Joshi in France – the report
06 Thursday Jun 2019
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, New books, Odd scratchings
S.T. Joshi’s blog has updated with an illustrated report on “A Trip to France”, made to promote the French translation of his monumental Lovecraft biography. Among much else, he ventured down into the Catacombs of old Paris…
Traversing this site was a suitably grisly experience for a devotee of the weird and macabre.
Suitably primed, he later discovered the young artist Laurent Gapaillard, who does epic architectural prints in the Piranesi and Prout style, and from my cursory searches seems to be known in France for his book illustration and concept art for videogames.
The French ‘Lovecraft & Sonia’ play Howard, Mon Amour is being translated to English, and Joshi hopes to find a publisher for it.
Also, Joshi has had a copy of his The H. P. Lovecraft Cat Book in print. The hardcover first edition has sold out already.
NecronomiCon 2001
06 Thursday Jun 2019
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Snagged from a sale listing, a pretty good scan of a NecronomiCon convention cover. Done in very pleasing pen and ink by an unknown artist, for the 2001 convention. Search doesn’t immediately land me on the artist’s name.
Update: the artist has been suggested, by the style, as the British artist Dave Carson. Following that I’ve found a credited Dave Carson piece which has the same maker’s mark on it, so this cover is indeed by him.
Kittee Tuesday: Louis Wain visits Ulthar
04 Tuesday Jun 2019
Posted in Kittee Tuesday, Lovecraftian arts
Celebrating H.P. Lovecraft’s love of our mysterious felines.
An illustration from the Dr Nikola proto-pulp, by Louis Wain. Wain is one of the most famous cat artists, now entirely associated with ‘cute cats’. It’s thus very unusual to encounter one of his that’s a little more Ulthar-like.
Lovecraft’s “Memory”
04 Tuesday Jun 2019
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Librivox’s latest Short Ghost and Horror Collection 033 has appeared, and has a wealth of amateur Lovecraft readings. Including “Memory” which is a very short prose poem written in 1919.
This led me to discover that the excellent reader Ian Gordon has also done a new free 10 minute reading of “Memory” by H. P. Lovecraft. This was posted by him on YouTube, a couple of months ago. The story itself is quite brief and followed by music.
At the Mountains of Manga
03 Monday Jun 2019
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
The 298-page Vol. 1 of the English translation of At The Mountains of Madness graphic novel, by cult manga artist Gou Tanabe, has a release date of 25th June 2019 from Dark Horse.
The 365-page Vol. 2. of Mountains of Madness now also has a release date, of 29th October 2019. At which point the work will apparently be complete in English translation. Even if there’s some padding from the publisher, it looks to be more than 600 pages in total.
This is what his style looks like…
NecronomiCon Providence 2019 – new poster
30 Thursday May 2019
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
Another new poster for the NecronomiCon Providence H.P. Lovecraft convention, in August 2019. The artist is not credited on the page, though there’s some lettering too small to read on the right of the picture. (Update: thanks to ‘The Joey Zone’ for telling that the artist is named Brandon Kawashima).
At the Biltmore Hotel…
DeviantArt Delights
29 Wednesday May 2019
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
Some new Lovecraftian work on DeviantArt, since last I looked through the ‘Newest’ results.
CA-Yogsothoth-F-BKM-PROG234567 by BKMcDevitt
H. P. Lovecraft Statue by HaoZhiWei
Howard Lovecraft bust sculpture v.4 by tot-art
The Silent Singer by FatherStone
Misc Longharbor concept art by nashotobi
RPG SvenskaKulter by IanBaggley (cover for a Swedish Lovecraftian RPG)
Mr Nibblesworth by Dont-Trust-Dolls
