Monster Maniacs #2, now available in paper, being “the journal of vintage horror in magazines, comics and fanzines.”
Monster Maniacs #2
05 Sunday Jul 2020
Posted in New books, Scholarly works
Category Archives: New books
Vastarien to date
04 Saturday Jul 2020
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, New books, Scholarly works
Last noted here just before Christmas 2018, Grimscribe Press’s Vastarien journal has since produced six more issues.
Assuming you already have (or have previously noted the contents of) issue one, then the following is the scholarly non-fiction you’d have missed in the later issues…
Objects of Desire and Dreams of Objectification in Thomas Ligotti’s Short Stories.
Thomas Lovell Beddoes: Marginalia in a Cadaveric Atlas.
H. P. Lovecraft and H. R. Giger: The Maestros and Their Muses.
Expansion, Psychogeography, and the Living City in Andrei Bely’s Petersburg.
Interview with T. E. D. Klein.
The Atmospheric Machines of Poe and Ligotti.
Polanski’s Apartment Trilogy: Perceptual Crisis, Identity, and the Rented Flat.
Visions of the Gothic Body in Thomas Ligotti’s Short Stories.
The Dark Passions of Mark Samuels.
The Power of Individuality in the Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
Richard Gavin: The Nature of Horror.
The Ghosts of Their Guns: Magical Realism in the Fiction of Nadia Bulkin.
Bequeathing the World to Insects [possible survey of post-human beetle-races etc, in fiction??]
Lacan on Lynch: Viewing Twin Peaks through a Psychoanalytic Lens.
Interstellar Patrol now in audiobook
03 Friday Jul 2020
Posted in New books, Podcasts etc.
I’m pleased to see that Interstellar Patrol: Federation of Humanity is now out, providing a new 17-hour audiobook for Christopher Anvil’s late 1960s Interstellar Patrol series. Which is not to be confused with the Hamilton Interstellar Patrol of the late 1920s and 1930s in Weird Tales, the one-plot wonder that Lovecraft was so tepid about. I’ve blogged here previously about the later and different Christoper Anvil and the Interstellar Patrol series if you want to know more.
A follow-up audiobook, Interstellar Patrol II, is set for September 2020.
Regrettably we’re not told which stories are included, or in what order they’re presented. Is this a complete reading of all the stories? I assume the audiobooks are straight readings of two print/ebook collections, the first titled Interstellar Patrol (2003), and the second Interstellar Patrol II: The Federation of Humanity (2005). These collected all the stories. But the potential listener might like a little more reassurance on that point, before they crack open their Paypal for £18 per.
Occult Detective Magazine / Hellebore
30 Tuesday Jun 2020
Posted in Kittee Tuesday, New books, Scholarly works
New to me, there’s now an Occult Detective Magazine which has just reached #7. The title includes articles and reviews as well as fiction. For instance, the new Spring 2020 edition features Bobby Derie’s “Conan and Carnacki: Robert E. Howard and William Hope Hodgson”.
It appears to be an offshoot from and continuation of the late Sam Gafford’s Occult Detective Quarterly.
Also new and carrying non-fiction articles, the stylish British magazine Hellebore, devoted to the British ‘folk horror’ subgenre and nice typography.
Kittee Tuesday: Cats of the Louvre
30 Tuesday Jun 2020
Posted in Kittee Tuesday, New books
Celebrating H.P. Lovecraft’s keen interest in our feline friends.
A 420-page graphic novel about cats in a giant old museum, Cats of the Louvre (Sept 2019). Nice. Can’t think how I missed the appearance of this book in English, last year, but I did. Well-reviewed, it’s apparently a well-told and subtly ‘surreal’ tale, and not a twee shelf-filler for the Museum’s shop.
Book: Underground Rivers
27 Saturday Jun 2020
Posted in New books, Scholarly works
Underground Rivers by Richard Heggen. A 1,500 page PDF book kindly placed online for free by the author in its latest summer 2018 draft, under Creative Commons Attribution NC. Effectively it’s a chronological and thematic encyclopedia with comprehensive coverage of British and American popular culture, and abundant illustrations. It also has many rich dips into ancient mythology on the topic. It’s evidently a years-long side-project and the author, Professor Emeritus of Civil Engineering at The University of New Mexico, asks to be informed of anything he may have missed over the decades.
While many of the illustration are in the public domain, some are likely not. It would probably be safer to assume that the Creative Commons Attribution NC licence applies to the text only.
Digest Enthusiast #12
25 Thursday Jun 2020
Posted in New books, Odd scratchings, Scholarly works
The Digest Enthusiast #12 is now available, with Mike Chomko and William Lampkin, who “untangle the fate of PulpFest 2020 and The Pulpster“.
Dracula in Sweden
22 Monday Jun 2020
Posted in New books, Scholarly works
S.T. Joshi’s blog has updated. He has a book-sale on now and, among other new book news, has details of: two late novels by Frank Belknap Long set to be reprinted by Centipede; his abridged Lovecraft biography A Dreamer and a Visionary: H.P. Lovecraft in His Time, now available in translation in Brazil; a forthcoming 300,000-word English translation of the Swedish version of Bram Stoker’s Dracula — possibly… “from an early version of the novel that found its way to Sweden in the 1890s. This version does not survive in English”. The Dracula translation has been edited by Joshi.
Ex Libris Miskatonici
21 Sunday Jun 2020
Posted in New books
There’s a three-volume set of suitably pulpishly-illustrated Russian translations of Clark Ashton Smith.
Call: The Medial Afterlives of H.P. Lovecraft
20 Saturday Jun 2020
Posted in New books, Scholarly works
Call for Papers: The Medial Afterlives of H.P. Lovecraft. Deadline: 31st August 2020.
The book editors appears to be looking for studies of recent (post-2008) media adaptations in “comics, film, podcasts, TV, videogames”, rather than something trawled from the vast squishy hinterlands of earlier Lovecraft adaptation and Lovecraftian media.
“Just a second…”
19 Friday Jun 2020
Posted in New books
The Visual History of Science Fiction Fandom, last blogged here in March 2020, is now reported to have gone to a “Second Edition, Second Printing”.
New book: EC Covers Artist’s Edition
10 Wednesday Jun 2020
Posted in New books
EC Covers Artist’s Edition, due soon. 120 covers carefully photographed from the original art, and printed at 22 inches, with the book having 160 pages in total for $150. I presume there’s also a gallery of the as-printed cover and historical details.
