03 Tuesday Nov 2020
Posted in New books, REH, Scholarly works
A peep at the contents page of Todd B. Vick’s Renegades and Rogues: The Life and Legacy of Robert E. Howard, due in early January 2021 from the University of Texas Press — but now on Google Books early and with some preview pages.
30 Friday Oct 2020
Posted in New books, Scholarly works
Now listing on both Amazon and Hippocampus for 31st Oct 2020, Eccentric, Impractical Devils: The Letters of Clark Ashton Smith and August Derleth. 602 pages from Hippocampus Press, edited and annotated by David E. Schultz and S. T. Joshi.
Additional information is found in a March 2019 blog post by S.T. Joshi…
Recently a previously unknown batch of Derleth’s letters to Smith came to light, causing us to refashion the book almost in its totality — and forcing me to re-index nearly the whole of the book. Gawd, what a nightmarish task! But the job is done at last, and I hope the book will emerge soon — along with the huge Clark Ashton Smith bibliography that Scott Connors, David E. Schultz, and I have edited.
Ouch, it sounds like he indexes by hand. Someone tell him about the automated PDF Index Generator, which would at least take care of much of the heavy-lifting of index-building.
26 Monday Oct 2020
Posted in New books, Scholarly works
A new Italian book, Mitologi, mitografi e mitomani (Mythologists, Mythographers and Mythomaniacs: traces of myth through the centuries). Many medieval chapters, but the book concludes with Alessandro Fambrini’s “Howard Phillips Lovecraft e Friedrich Nietzsche: sogni di dei e di superuomini”…
Lovecraft read Nietzsche and quoted him repeatedly. This article attempts to investigate the influence and consequences of the German philosopher’s thought in Lovecraftian fiction.
18 Sunday Oct 2020
Posted in New books, Scholarly works
The S.T. Joshi-edited collected Autobiographical Writings by Arthur Machen appears to be ordering, for November shipping.
17 Saturday Oct 2020
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, New books
A Portuguese translated Tales collection from Lovecraft, to be published from Martin Claret, 28th October 2020. It’s one of three such volumes but their page for these is broken, which doesn’t inspire confidence. Still, a very pleasing and clever cover for the first such book.
The bicycle is there because the young Lovecraft was a keen cyclist to about 1908, then it most likely became sporadic, and he marks 1913 as the terminal date for his giving up cycling altogether. For adults to cycle in Providence was not the “done thing” at that time.
15 Thursday Oct 2020
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, New books, Scholarly works
A new book, seemingly coming from an occultist perspective, Dark Magic: H.P. Lovecraft, Starry Wisdom and the Contagion of Fear…
explores the contagious qualities of Lovecraft’s tales, with their embedded sense of dread and their dismantling of human reason, and how they have propagated in the near century after his death … the infectious qualities of Lovecraft’s ideas are seen to parallel virology, mass infection, and the fraying state of the human psyche during times of pandemic.
Which blurb leads me to coin the new word “cultifectious”:— the quality had by a certain type of culture that is highly infectious and communicable, but not mere mass-market pop-fluff or some passing propaganda of-the-moment. It carries within it a complex nexus of elements that organically connect things usually divided — low and high culture, the deep past and the cosmic future, or ancient and modern science. Its infectiousness thus comes partly from being connected to ‘the genuine’ at both ends of one of those divisions, and by bringing these lightly into play with each other. Because it has something genuine woven through it, it may be difficult to make into a mass audience commodity unless brutally shorn of many of its intrinsic qualities. Instead it persists and spreads among initiates as a potent ‘cultic’ form of culture. It does not usually, however, gather about it the more oppressive hierarchical apparatus of ‘a cult’ in the religious sense. It naturally fascinates, rather than ponderously recruits.
13 Tuesday Oct 2020
Posted in Kittee Tuesday, New books
Ecstasy in Literature: Reading Arthur Machen’s Hieroglyphics…
This handsomely produced new edition of Machen’s book, Hieroglyphics: A Note Upon Ecstasy in Literature, contains Machen’s “A Note on Poetry” as well as two essays which bookend Machen’s text … an introduction by D. P. Watt (himself one of the leading lights of British weird fiction) …
11 Sunday Oct 2020
Posted in New books, Scholarly works
S.T. Joshi’s Blog has updated again. He reveals the forthcoming…
new collection of Ken Faig’s writings on some of the more obscure corners of the Lovecraftian world. Some of these writings have been published in very limited editions by Ken himself as part of his “Moshassuck Monographs” series, but we intend to gather them and others together into a solid volume that will display the depth of Ken’s researches.
I’d known about this planned book via email, but now the good news is public.
09 Friday Oct 2020
Posted in New books
Revista Dossier reviews what appears to be a new re-publication of Confesiones de un Incredulo (Madrid, 1972), which presents Lovecraft’s essays, plus selected letters and articles, in a good translation. The title translates back to English as something like Confessions of Incredulity: and other selected essays.
05 Monday Oct 2020
Posted in New books
hplovecraft.com now has a page for H.P. Lovecraft: Letters to Family and Family Friends, giving the full table of contents for both volumes.
05 Monday Oct 2020
Posted in New books, Scholarly works
Donald Wandrei’s The Complete Ivy Frost is set to ship. 720 pages, in paper hardcover.
Also shipping soon, the Ray Bradbury edition of The Pulpster, Number 29.
30 Wednesday Sep 2020
Posted in New books, Scholarly works
The second volume of Io Sono Providence: la biografia di H.P. Lovecraft is now marked as “Arriving”. This being the ongoing translation of the S.T. Joshi’s famous biography of Lovecraft. The first volume shipped this time last year. Note that Volume 2 of the Italian translation is “1920-1928”, and there will be one more next year for a three-volume set. Congratulations to all concerned, and also for sticking to the release schedule despite the difficulties of the lockdowns in the last six months.
