Category Archives: New books

Interstellar Patrol now in audiobook

03 Friday Jul 2020

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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

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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

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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

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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.

Dracula in Sweden

22 Monday Jun 2020

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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.

Joshi’s new ‘Advance of the Weird Tale’ and ‘Varieties of Crime Fiction’

03 Wednesday Jun 2020

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S.T. Joshi’s blog has updated and he has news of another new book, his The Advance of the Weird Tale. This being his “miscellaneous essays on weird fiction”, and available now in Kindle. It anticipates another collection, as yet unpublished, to be titled The Progression of the Weird Tale.

He also notes another new survey book, his Varieties of Crime Fiction (April 2020), which his blog states he spent “a good three years writing”. It’s also available now on Kindle via Amazon.