10 Sunday Oct 2021
Posted in New books
The 1920 novel A Voyage to Arcturus is set to be an “illuminated edition” from cartoonist Jim Woodring, due for publication as a $100 slipcover edition in Spring 2022. Introduction by Alan Moore.
09 Saturday Oct 2021
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, New books
Gary Gianni’s illustrated “The Call of Cthulhu” book is shipping. 112 pages with 100+ pencil drawings plus colour inserts. Designed with Marcelo Anciano, it apparently seeks to…
push the boundaries of illustrated books and explore graphic storytelling.
Direct from the publisher Flesk seems the best way to get one before they sell out the print-run.
07 Thursday Oct 2021
Posted in New books, Scholarly works
Miskatonic Missives, a spin-out paper publication from the Voluminous podcast…
each issue of Miskatonic Missives serves as an ideal companion guide for exploring one of H.P. Lovecraft’s most fascinating letters. Every issue includes a reproduction of the full text of the letter in question, supported by a variety of relevant reference material, including contemporary and modern fiction, academic writing, poetry, and artwork.
Hmmm, “contemporary and modern fiction”? I presume that must be new unpublished work then?
02 Saturday Oct 2021
Posted in New books
Leslie Klinger’s annotated Lovecraft with Joshi’s texts, now complete in two volumes in German translation. Das Werk II: Große kommentierte Ausgabe was published in Germany a few days ago.
Actually, thinking back… it was the Joshi texts that were used for the English edition. But I’m guessing that perhaps they swopped that out for a good German translation, already available?
Also, “Hypnos” was missing from the English edition for some reason. Also others. So not quite “Das Werk” complete that the publishers are implying.
30 Thursday Sep 2021
Posted in Historical context, New books, Scholarly works
S.T. Joshi’s blog has updated. The main good news is his new history book which surveys Lovecraft’s 1938-1988 period…
The Recognition of H.P. Lovecraft should appear within a few weeks, enhanced by a fine cover design by Jason Van Hollander.
Google Books suggest the full title is to be The Recognition of H. P. Lovecraft: His Rise from Obscurity to World Renown, but can as yet provide no table-of-contents or cover.
Among other items Joshi notes is the arrival of the new expanded Samuel Loveman collection Out of the Immortal Night (original book was 2004), and the slight delaying of the expected premiere of the new Lovecraft documentary. It has originally been mooted for the Lovecraft Film Festival, but is now to be shown via streaming only and “occurring a week after” the Festival.
29 Wednesday Sep 2021
Posted in New books, REH, Scholarly works
Now available via Amazon, The Dark Man journal for Summer 2021. Including…
* “Building a Universe: An Analysis of the Works, Lives, and Influences of the Lovecraft Circle”.
* “Adapting Lovecraft to Video Games: What is Lost, What is Gained”.
Also Rusty Burke reviewing the new biography, Renegades and Rogues: The Life and Legacy of Robert E. Howard.
28 Tuesday Sep 2021
Posted in New books, Scholarly works
Now listed at Hippocampus, Penumbra No. 2 (2021) is the second issue of S.T. Joshi’s new journal. The non-fiction includes…
* Guy de Maupassant: Women, Madness, and the Horla.
* A Matter of Belief: Further Thoughts on Lord Dunsany and Religion.
* [Lovecraft’s 1921] “The Quest of Iranon” and [Dunsany’s 1922] Don Rodriguez: Two Exercises in the Picaresque.
* Icy Portents of Doom: Clark Ashton Smith’s Hyperborean Cycle and the Polar Myth.
* Hodgson, The Night Land, and William Morris.
28 Tuesday Sep 2021
Posted in New books, Scholarly works
Lovecraft Annual 2021, now listing on Amazon UK and (for an extra £5) on eBay UK. Sadly not fitted with translucent flexi-cover with washes of faint and unplaceable iridescent colours, as I had rather whimsically expected after seeing the blank slot on the initial Hippocampus listing. More of a ‘hot curry’ colour for the cover, this year. Which I like and I guess will sit well alongside the latest book of Letters… containing as it does a curry recipe.
28 Tuesday Sep 2021
Posted in Lovecraft as character, Lovecraftian arts, New books
Providence Blue is a new ‘Lovecraft as character’ fantasy novel. Warning: general ‘structure-of-the-novel’ spoilers below.
In Rhode Island mysterious creatures were…
encountered by renegade preacher Roger Williams on his historical journey that ended with the founding of Providence, Rhode Island. [Later in Providence] Lovecraft is an accomplished and impish ‘Magus'”.
He investigates these historical encounters, as these seem to have foreshadowed his own monsters and to have links with a real Cthulhu cult. Even later in Providence…
An anxiety-filled former punk-rocker [Wilum Pugmire?], a drifting Athenaeum employee, and an entire cast of unique and well-developed characters find themselves thrown into a puzzling and some harrowing ride around Providence [and beyond]
Catholic World Report newspaper has an interview with the author (with some detailed spoilers, and also a horrid pop-up page-blocking overlay and nags)…
Pinault is a Professor of Religous Studies at Santa Clara University, and a native of Providence. … The author’s Catholic faith is evident throughout the story, as each character seeks redemption and an ultimate answer to the myriad sufferings of mankind.
Sounds fun but there’s no ebook or audiobook version, sadly, just a paperback. Might make for a good chunky graphic novel, by the sound of it, it you were looking for such a book to adapt.
23 Thursday Sep 2021
Posted in New books, Scholarly works
Journal of Science Fiction and Philosophy. An open-access annual, now with four issues.
Speaking of philosophy, S.T. Joshi now has his Classical Papers available via through Sarnath Press. The book collects his papers on classical thought, produced during his early career.
22 Wednesday Sep 2021
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, New books
I stumbled on the blog of John Houlihan. He has news of several Lovecraftian items from the last year or so, such as the Mythos anthologies which (though not covered by Tentaclii) are continuing to thump down onto doormats.
Specifically Weird Tails… “Mythos fiction inspired by both H.P. Lovecraft and horror fiction’s ongoing fascination with all things feline.” And another devoted to Nyarlathotep tales, N: A Stygian Fox Anthology Concerning the Outer God Nyarlathotep. Glancing at both, I’m reminded that such anthologies could usefully offer aspiring artists / designers a chance at making a decent cover and thus add to their appeal. Or even retired artists such as the superb and still-prolific Bob May.
Weird Tails also has “LOVECRAFT AND CATS” in the TOCs, toward the end, which I’m guessing may perhaps be an essay rather than a story?
Houlihan appears to be involved with the new Achtung! Cthulhu 2d20 RPG, which he discusses at length in a recent Innsmouth Book Club podcast…
a chat which encompasses books, Achtung! Cthulhu, computer games, the revenge of the nerds and the inexorable rise of interest in HPL and the Mythos.
Elsewhere, news of Chroniques Oubliees: Cthulhu, a French Lovecraftian 1920s tabletop RPG of 2018—. Seemingly not a translation of an English RPG. It had super-slick character art by Aurore Folny, some of which is now newly online at ArtStation.
21 Tuesday Sep 2021
Posted in Kittee Tuesday, Lovecraftian arts, New books
A new Lovecraft graphic novel of Dream-Quest, albeit currently only in Spanish. H.P. Lovecraft: Kadath is by screenwriter Florentino Florez, with Guillermo Sanna and Jacques Salomon. It’s been available for a couple of months now and several Amazon reviewers seem pleased with the large BD sized hardback, but neither Amazon or the publisher gives the page count. A little digging puts it at 210 pages.
Looks good, and good enough to get a paid-for English translation.