03 Tuesday Jun 2014
Posted in New books
Amazon has a new listing for the forthcoming (July 2014) book The Curious Case of H. P. Lovecraft, touted as a “comprehensive new biography” in 192 pages. The author’s past books apparently include “The Dark History of the Occult”; “The Crimes of Jack the Ripper”, “Nazis and the Occult”.
19 Monday May 2014
Posted in New books, Podcasts etc., Scholarly works
Robert M. Price was interviewed this month by Erik Davis (Techgnosis) for his Expanding Minds (.mp3 link) podcast…
Gnosticism, H.P. Lovecraft, and the labyrinth of Biblical interpretation: theologian and Lovecraft expert Robert M. Price discusses his new book … and the “peculiar spirituality of the Lovecraft universe.
10 Saturday May 2014
Posted in New books
James Goho’s new book Journeys into Darkness: Critical Essays on Gothic Horror
* The Sickness unto Death in H. P. Lovecraft’s “The Hound”.
* What Is “The Unnamable”?: H.P. Lovecraft and the problem of evil.
* The Aboriginal in the Works of H. P. Lovecraft.
10 Saturday May 2014
Posted in New books, Scholarly works
S.T. Joshi’s Lovecraft and a World in Transition: Collected Essays on H.P. Lovecraft is set for release, initially as a 500-copy limited edition hardcover, in late June 2014.
10 Saturday May 2014
Posted in Housekeeping, New books
Has it been that long? I took a two month springtime break from Lovecraft (the best time to do so), in order to do intensive work on my JURN open access academic search tool. Until 2014 JURN indexed only open access (free) academic journals in the arts and humanities. It now also indexes all known open ecology-related journals, open business journals, and biomedical/science. Also most of the main UK academic repositories, and key US and world repositories. JURN’s index was given a thorough spring-cleaning and a deep linkrot cure, along with the same for the JURN Directory of arts and humanities journals.
Many thanks to Kenneth W. Faig, Jr. for sending me a paper copy of his EOD mailing zine, containing his kind reviews of my summer 2013 books. I’m also in receipt of review copies of Steven J. Mariconda’s H. P. Lovecraft: Art, Artifact, and Reality, and David Goudsward’s H. P. Lovecraft in the Merrimack Valley. Thanks to David Goudsward and Derek Hussey for those — I’ll be reviewing those books in July or August.
09 Sunday Mar 2014
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, NecronomiCon 2013, New books, Podcasts etc.
A three part audio recording of the panel discussion on the History of Necronomicon Press, made at NecronomiCon 2013.
Above: Rhode Island Historical Society 2013 reprint of Off the Ancient Track: a Lovecraftian Guide to New-England & adjacent New-York, 1987 Necronomicon Press. 18 page pamphlet.
09 Sunday Mar 2014
Posted in New books, Scholarly works
Details on Leslie Klinger’s forthcoming New Annotated Lovecraft book.
900 annotations across 22 Lovecraft works. 90,000 words of additional text, although possibly that word-count also includes the seven appendices and Alan Moore’s introduction. The works chosen for annotation are…
Dagon
The Statement of Randolph Carter
Beyond the Wall of Sleep
Nyarlathotep
The Picture in the House
Herbert West: Reanimator
The Nameless City
The Hound
The Festival
The Unnamable
The Call of Cthulhu
The Silver Key
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
The Colour Out of Space
The Dunwich Horror
The Whisperer in Darkness
At the Mountains of Madness
The Shadow over Innsmouth
The Dreams in the Witch House
The Thing on the Doorstep
The Shadow Out of Time
The Haunter of the Dark
The book is reportedly dated for publication on 13th October 2014, in time for Halloween.
Update for volume two, the final volume:
NEW ANNOTATED H. P. LOVECRAFT, VOL. II (late summer 2019)
LIST OF STORIES (in order written):
The Tomb
Polaris
Transition of Juan Romero
The Doom that Came to Sarnath
Ex Oblivione
The Terrible Old Man
Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn
The Cats of Ulthar
Celephais
The Temple
The Outsider
The Other Gods
The Music of Erich Zann
The Quest of Iranon
The Lurking Fear
The Rats in the Walls
The Shunned House
The Horror at Red Hook
He
Cool Air
The Strange High House in the Mist
Pickman’s Model
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath
22 Saturday Feb 2014
Posted in New books
The Hippocampus Press book H. P. Lovecraft: Letters to Elizabeth Toldridge & Anne Tillery Renshaw (annotated) appears to be shipping now. I mentioned it here last May, when it was set for shipping in August. But it was delayed. Now Wilum Pugmire has a print copy to show on camera, and the Hippocampus Press page for the book has it as available for order.
Above: cover of The Credential, an amateur magazine Lovecraft co-edited with Renshaw from early 1919.
21 Friday Feb 2014
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, New books
The Amazon Kindle ereader version of the new book Cthulhu in World Mythology
19 Wednesday Feb 2014
Posted in New books
Interesting news of a new Joshi-introduced book set for 2014 or 2015, The Lovecraftian Poe: Essays on influence, reception, interpretation and transformation…
“That Poe was among the greatest influences on Lovecraft is widely known; Lovecraft famously referred to Poe as both his “model” and his “God of Fiction.” Yet, despite widespread recognition of this fact amongst scholars and fans of both Poe and Lovecraft’s work, there has surprisingly so far been no collection that brings together scholarly approaches to this topic. This collection aims to address this absence, gathering original essays that focus closely on the precise nature and extent of Poe’s influence on Lovecraft, Lovecraft’s role in Poe’s wider reception and dissemination, and his adoption and adaptation of many of Poe’s concepts and techniques.”
Judging by a Google search the call-for-papers had all the reach and impact of a very small patch of slime-mould, and sadly the deadline for papers has now gone.
18 Tuesday Feb 2014
Posted in New books, Scholarly works
Am still hoping for paper review copies of the following, from 2013…
David Simmons (ed), New Critical Essays on H. P. Lovecraft.
Steven J Mariconda, H. P. Lovecraft: Art, Artifact, and Reality. (Now on its way to me)
David Goudsward, H. P. Lovecraft in the Merrimack Valley. (Now on its way to me)
Alex Kurtagic, Annotated Supernatural Horror in Literature.
Gavin Callaghan, H.P. Lovecraft’s Dark Arcadia: The Satire, Symbology and Contradiction.
15 Saturday Feb 2014
Due in April/May 2014, a glossy photobook documenting the pet cats of heavy metal musicians…
