Due in April/May 2014, a glossy photobook documenting the pet cats of heavy metal musicians…

A new blog post by S.T. Joshi. News that…

“Hippocampus Press has decided to publish a biannual journal devoted to weird poetry, entitled Spectral Realms [with] reviews and articles on the subject [in addition to poetry] … We hope to have the first issue ready by July [2014]”

Also news of a new scholarly book…

“Bobby Derie’s Sex and the Cthulhu Mythos, a serious and very perspicacious study of this subject. Derie, a young British critic, has analysed not only Lovecraft’s life and work for its sexual overtones and implications, but also the work of Lovecraft’s contemporaries [with publication planned for] later this year [2014] from Hippocampus Press”

The work of Lovecraft’s friend Henry S. Whitehead, back in print via a chunky paperback anthology from Wordsworth. At Wordsworth’s usual amazingly low price, which makes a nice change from seeing a $70 price tag on such things.

Paperback | Kindle ebook edition

Special Lovecraft edition of the French-language magazine Bifrost (latest, #73)…

My approximate translation of the contents page:

H.P. Lovecraft : A Life, by Bertrand Bonnet.

Precursors and influences : the literary roots of H.P. Lovecraft, by Bertrand Bonnet.

Lovecraft and his myth, by Raphael Granier de Cassagnac.

Call of Cthulhu : a subjective analysis of cosmic terror, by Laurent Kloetzer.

Lovecraft in France : a short tale of his critical reception, by Bertrand Bonnet.

Good trade, accursed books, by Bertrand Bonnet.

Outlining the unspeakable, a Lovecraftian reading guide.

New blog post by S.T. Joshi. He notes of his forthcoming Variorum Lovecraft, an edition including all the textual variants in Lovecraft’s fiction, that…

“As an appendix [in Variorum Lovecraft], I will print things like … “Of Evill Sorceries done in New-England, of Daemons of No Humane Shape” — the fragment that August Derleth incorporated (with extensive alterations) into The Lurker at the Threshold (1945). It does not appear as if I or anyone else has ever published this document, in its original form.

Del Toro’s new book Guillermo del Toro Cabinet of Curiosities: My Notebooks, Collections, and Other Obsessions, in the New York Times…

“it also includes pictures of Bleak House, where del Toro works and stores hundreds of artworks, figurines and props. … Most disconcertingly, a lifelike full-size sculpture of H. P. Lovecraft stands in a library, angrily looking up from a book as if you’ve interrupted him”

A new collection of work by Lovecraft’s friend and amateur press associate Mrs Miniter, The Village Green and Other Pieces by Edith Miniter…

“… editors Faig and Donnelly renew their determination to establish Mrs. Miniter in her rightful place as a New England Regionalist. Three unfinished novels form the core of this volume, together with numerous short stories. Two unusual items round out the collection: “A Rearward Glance,” an autobiographical summary of a life in amateur journalism; and “How to Dress on $40 a Year,” a humorous piece displaying Miniter’s characteristic wit.”