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Opening letters…

21 Thursday Sep 2023

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A useful new page at hplovecraft.com details exactly what’s in the book H.P. Lovecraft: Letters to Hyman Bradofsky and Others. Includes his letters to…

a pair of brilliant weird artists, Virgil Finlay and Frank Utpatel

According to S.T. Joshi’s latest blog post this is… “the second-to-last volume in the Lovecraft Letters series, to be followed next year by A Sense of Proportion: The Letters of H.P. Lovecraft and Frank Belknap Long”. He also notes that the new For the Outsider: Poems Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft is in his hands.

Lovecrafter 11 / 12 (2023)

05 Tuesday Sep 2023

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Details of what’s in the annual German-language double-issue magazine from the German Lovecraftians. Printing soon, and it should be available to buy shortly.

Lovecrafter 11: special issue on Lovecraft’s poetry.

* Following the recent German publication of the volume of poems Fungi by Yuggoth and other poems, an article “will present and discuss the translation and book in as much detail as possible”. [Sounds like a ‘making of’ article?]

* Form fanaticism and nostalgia in Lovecraft’s poems. [Probably about his passion for old metres, poetic forms and subject matter?]

* Lovecraft’s graphology. [His penmanship, or otherwise, and presumably also trying to divine personality from the handwriting?]

* ‘Mushroom Gardens in Bloom’ – a review of H.P. Lovecraft’s Fungi of Yuggoth and Other Poems (German edition).

Lovecrafter 12: special issue on Robert E. Howard.

Parallels between “Howard’s biography and the protagonists of his stories”.

A look at “the origins and relevance of the barbaric in more detail”.

An article which “roves through the sunken temple complexes and black stone structures that leave us so unsettled in the context of cosmic horror”.

“Digital Horror Upgrade 2.0”, in which Dennis Grob examines a number of obscure and often unknown videogame titles.

And various RPG gaming material.

Recent and forthcoming comics

04 Monday Sep 2023

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Time for a look at comics.

The delayed single-volume Lovecraft: Unknown Kadath collected comics series / graphic-novel should be shipping in about two weeks, just in time for the ‘student grant-money arrival’ season. Also to be available as a Kindle ebook. I see there’s also to be a French single-volume edition of this recent Kadath series of comics, with the French translation due early November 2023.

There’s also a French graphic novel or ‘BD’, Le dernier jour de Howard Phillips Lovecraft (‘The Last Day of Howard Phillips Lovecraft’). No page-count that I can find, but presumably it’ll be the usual ‘BD’ length and large page dimensions.

Set to ship just before Halloween 2023…

Romuald Giulivo and artist Jakub Rebelka bring us the dreamlike story of Lovecraft’s final moments in the form of interior dialogues, [in which he] revisits his imaginary lands, memories, his anger and his grey areas. We follow the last journey of a complex and tortured man [who is] convinced that only a comforting eternal night awaits men at the moment of their death. But isn’t an author inherently immortal thanks to his stories of which we are the custodians? Constructed like a strange Gothic cathedral, Lovecraft’s Last Day is an extraordinary graphic novel turning the end of a man into the beginning of a myth.

Sounds good, though only in French. One would have thought that the French ‘BD’ industry would have installed a streamlined AI-assisted insta-translation system by now. They must be missing out on a large chunk of revenue by not doing so. They have so much quality content and back-catalogue material. For grown-ups, self-contained complete stories, great art. Many English readers would gladly pay $10 for that, in ebook.

Later in the year, we have a new maybe-perhaps shipping date for Gou Tanabe’s mammoth H.P. Lovecraft’s The Shadow Over Innsmouth graphic novel manga adaptation, in the English Dark Horse translation. Like the single-volume Kadath, this has been much delayed. But Amazon is now suggesting possible UK in-your-hands delivery by 7th December 2023.

By the way, I was able to read The Monstrous Dreams of Mr. Providence graphic novel. Hmmm… entertaining in a ‘Neil Gaiman meets Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens’ sort of way. Very beautiful artwork and lettering. But not really about the Lovecraft I recognise.

And it looks like the older graphic novel / comics biography Some Notes on a Nonentity: The Life of H.P. Lovecraft is now firmly out-of-print. Time for a new affordable e-book edition from PS Publishing?

Lovecraft & Astronomy podcast

23 Wednesday Aug 2023

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A new one-hour ‘Lovecraft & Astronomy’ podcast, Talking Weird #52. Talking with the authors of the forthcoming book on Lovecraft and Astronomy, Edward Guimont & Horace Smith. Released on Lovecraft’s Birthday.

Please note that I’ll now be taking a week’s break from the usual daily posting on Tentaclii, since there’s not much Lovecraft news at present. I plan to be back around 1st September.

The new German ‘Fungi from Yuggoth’

19 Saturday Aug 2023

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A review in German, of the new Fungi from Yuggoth German edition…

The German versions of the poems are not literal translations, but adaptations that author, actor and theatre director Frank Dukowski put together over many years of work. Here it was particularly important for Dukowski to maintain the form of the respective poem [and] Dukowski’s interpretations are closer to the original work than a literal translation ever could be. […] The Lovecraftian poetry is loosened up and framed at the same time by black-and-white illustrations by Jorg Kleudgen.

Tree & Star in paperback

16 Wednesday Aug 2023

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Paper-sniffers rejoice. My big scholarly Tolkien book Tree & Star (2022) can now be purchased in paperback from the U.S. Lulu.com store. Formatted as a standard 6″ x 9″ American ‘trade’ paperback. I chose the slightly better quality of b&w printing, since the book has many illustrations.

Journal of Psychick Albion #2, and others

15 Tuesday Aug 2023

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A quick scatter-gun round-up of some new British journals.

Undefined Boundary: The Journal of Psychick Albion has produced a second issue. Including a Bill Nelson interview. Both issues can currently be had as a bundle.

Wow, and what’s this… yes, it’s a Detectorists fanzine: Detectorists Bundle, Issues 1 – 4 from the same folk as Psychick Albion.

There’s also Strange Attractor Journal Five (Spring 2023), returning after a seven year break. Some of the contents are mentioned in the page for the London launch event.

And finally the Bacon Review has its first issue out. Not the ‘sizzling piggy’ type of bacon. The artist Francis Bacon, painter of the ‘Screaming Pope’ painting and all that.

New book: Technologies of picture research

12 Saturday Aug 2023

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A 2023 open-access book details the history of the technologies of the picture for print. Half the book looks at the pre-digital days when there was effectively nothing but print, and no scanners and hard-drives either. The other half looks at the change-over period.

This new digital culture arrived surprisingly late in time for some. In my university department we had around 20 filing cabinets in a ‘slide room’ aka Picture Library, each cabinet stuffed with rack-sliders and hangers containing slide transparencies of fine art and fine-art and some documentary photography. I think the date of change-over was about 2005 (roughly the date of the arrival of fast home broadband in the UK) when we got a new hot and young ‘slide room guy’. In short order we had a consignment of new digital projectors and people started getting their own laptops or mini laptops (the EEEs, which could run Windows XP quite happily and had standard VGA output).

The screen-projected quality on a wall wasn’t as good as slides on a proper slide-screen, and the digital + laptops classroom wrangling of the equipment was often as painful as setting up the slides and a screen. But it was kind of easier, because lecturers had started using Powerpoint rather than the blackboard (yes, our purpose-built department had fine blackboards and we used them) and photocopied handouts. So unless you printed the Powerpoint on acetates for an overhead projector, or on photocopies… and assuming you could find an overhead projector or a photocopier still working… well, you see some of the many ramifying problems.

And all this assumes you could get into what was often a locked room in the early morning, 30 minutes prior, to do all the needed setup, tidy the desks and air the room. An all-in-one digital solution just made things somewhat easier, though the visual quality of the projection was only about two-thirds that of a crisp and well-focused 35mm slide in a darkened room.

I cringe today when (finding pictures to illustrate local creative industries news) I occasionally see contemporary pictures of dedicated ‘art appreciation’ lessons inside middle school classrooms. The projector is often being used in daylight under strip-lights, and the kids are supposed to be ‘experiencing art’ through a really crappy washed-out image. Which I suspect is often also of a picture just ‘grabbed from the Internet’ without realising how colour-shifted and cropped the picture has become. One often has to really hunt to track down the best available and most faithful/largest version of a famous picture, and of course busy teachers don’t have the time or discovery skills for that. Even if they did, the picture would look poor when projected. I guess the ideal is that new-build schools should have their own cinema-like ‘dark room’ for quality projection, linked to online access to a quality-approved picture library.

Anyway, I thought that those readers of Tentaclii who are editors, publishers and artists might be interested in the new free book. Especially those who have lived through the change from print to digital…

from the pre-photographic 1830s to the post-digitized 2010s [the book examines] range of research skills, reproduction machinery, and communication infrastructures needed to make pictures available to a public before digitization.

H.P. Lovecraft and Astronomy / Lovecraft Annual 2023

06 Sunday Aug 2023

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New on the Hippocampus Press site, the forthcoming book When the Stars Are Right: H.P. Lovecraft and Astronomy. A chunky 412 pages.

Also the new Lovecraft Annual for 2023 (No. 17) with nearly 250 pages and in a rather pleasing shade of blue…

Already on Amazon UK which has it shipping on 1st August, though also anticipating delivery by the 26th August at the earliest. Basically, still a pre-order then. A bit cheaper this year, at £12.

Two new ebooks

31 Monday Jul 2023

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Wormwoodiana takes a look at Gary Myers’s Dreamlands tales in their original 1975 form. Said elsewhere to be typo-ridden in its 1975 edition, but the problem is not mentioned here.

It’s noted that the more recent book was a “corrected edition” as well as expanded, and Wormwoodiana usefully draws my attention to a further “2022” edition which had escaped me.

Also new in affordable ebook, S.T. Joshi’s compilation Ooze and Others (2023), being the best pulp shockers of Anthony M. Rud. Rud was an influence on Lovecraft, since the otherwise lacklustre March 1923 issue of the fledgling Weird Tales featured his tales of the Alabama swamplands…

“a striking novelette, “Ooze” by Anthony M. Rud, which Lovecraft enjoyed” (Joshi, I Am Providence)

Available in Kindle ebook…

Against Religion

30 Sunday Jul 2023

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An unusual item from Germany…

Against Religion by H. P. Lovecraft, Festa. Only 250 copies were published and there will be no reprints and no e-book. The selection includes his most important essays and letters on religion, atheism and related subjects. The structure of the book includes topics such as religion and science, religion and society, as well as general reflections on God and religion and much more.

I assume this is the best atheist-related essays from the Collected Essays, translated? Appears to be new. I’m guessing this may be the result of a Kickstarter or IndieGoGo campaign, perhaps?

New from Hippocampus

23 Sunday Jul 2023

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Newly listed on Hippocampus Press website (now accessible from the UK without a VPN, I’m pleased to see) are…

For the Outsider: Poems Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft which collects… “a plethora of poetic tributes from friends, colleagues, and disciples” and later acolytes. What a great idea. The listing page has the full list of included poems.

Those wanting even more poetry can find it in the new Spectral Realms No. 19, which I’m pleased to see includes “The Nightmare” by Erasmus Darwin as a classic reprint. This must be an extract from the famous The Botanic Garden: the Economy of Vegetation. This section (if given in full, rather than just the ‘demon chapel’ scene) is set near to me in the Staffordshire Moorlands. The section follows the river underground (it vanishes underground each summer). Interestingly, it’s also the very same valley used as the setting of the final part of the supernatural classic Sir Gawain & The Green Knight. Though Erasmus had no idea about Gawain at that time. My recent book Strange Country: Sir Gawain in the moorlands of North Staffordshire. An investigation has the details.

And… hurrah… another table-trembling slab of letters from Lovecraft, in the form of the near 600-page H. P. Lovecraft: Letters to Hyman Bradofsky and Others. We also get letters to… “Richard Ely Morse, Margaret Sylvester, John J. Weir, and a pair of brilliant weird artists, Virgil Finlay and Frank Utpatel.” Despite the page-count it’s currently on Amazon UK at £22.95, rather than the now-usual £30+ price for the books of letters I don’t yet have.

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