01 Friday Nov 2013
Posted in New books, Scholarly works
Great news for Kindle ereader owners. The massive two-volume I Am Providence: The Life and Times of H.P. Lovecraft is now available for the Kindle. Also in the UK, which gives a price of a reasonable £6.37 (about $10). Worth getting even if you own the paper volumes, just so you can search all zillion words of it by keyword. Also useful for people who need a larger and easier-to-read font.
29 Tuesday Oct 2013
Posted in New books
Motif magazine has a review of the new book New Critical Essays On H. P. Lovecraft.
27 Sunday Oct 2013
Posted in New books
New 400-page unauthorised Alan Moore biography, Magic Words: The Extraordinary Life of Alan Moore
26 Saturday Oct 2013
Posted in New books, Scholarly works
New 120-page book by Renzo Giorgetti, Lovecraft and Synchronicity (EDS, Stienta 2012. In Italian). Here’s the gist of a translated review…
Giorgetti uses ideas of synchronicity theorized by [the mystic/psychotherapist] Carl Jung. [The book has a] chapter dedicated to the figure of “Nyarlathotep” [in which Lovecraft] incarnates the state of tension that unites the crowds at that particular moment in history […] because of political and social upheavals [arising in the the post-war crisis year of 1919]. Then there are seemingly daring combinations between Lovecraft and the contemporary Italian writer Massimo Bontempelli. […] Another very striking juxtaposition is in the final chapter where the music of Erik Satie is compared to that of Erich Zann. Satie — one of the greats of contemporary music — is portrayed as an eccentric and passionate about esoteric beliefs.
20 Sunday Oct 2013
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, New books
Green Mountains Review reviews the new book The Natural Dissolution of Fleeting-Improvised-Men, which weaves a pseudo-scholarly fiction around H.P. Lovecraft’s “last letter”.
19 Saturday Oct 2013
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New book, Bewilderments of Vision : Hallucination and Literature, 1880–1914. Cercles review…
“The fifth Chapter is a study of Arthur Machen’s novel The Hill of Dreams (1907). It relies on insights from various authors like William James, Andrew Lang, John Addington Symonds, but also contemporary critics such as S.T. Joshi, Roger Luckhurst, Linda Dowling, and Julia Briggs.”
07 Monday Oct 2013
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LONTAR: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction. Speculative writing from and about the Philippines, Malaysia, Cambodia, Singapore, Laos and Vietnam. 25% free sample on Issuu.
30 Monday Sep 2013
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The hardback of the S.T. Joshi anthology A Mountain Walked is now on Amazon UK and USA, dated 18th March 2014 and with a list price of £157.48 ($254). Listed as $225 on the Amazon USA site.
“…over a dozen new stories inspired by H.P. Lovecraft and his Cthulhu Mythos”
29 Sunday Sep 2013
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A long newspaper review by Michael Dirda, of S.T. Joshi’s history of supernatural fiction, Unutterable Horror.
23 Monday Sep 2013
Posted in New books, Scholarly works
New interview by Marcha, in Spanish, with the Lovecraftian philosopher Fabian Luduena Romandini…
“the recent appearance of his latest book, devoted to H.P. Lovecraft [H.P. Lovecraft, la disyuncion en el ser] and published by Hecho Atomico Ediciones, 2013, offers a new and unsettling gateway [95 pages] to his latest work. This work in progress, we can tell already, is among the most original and poignant in contemporary philosophy.”
22 Sunday Sep 2013
Right-wing intellectual and novelist Alex Kurtagic reviews S.T. Joshi’s I Am Providence.
21 Saturday Sep 2013
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My 2013 Lovecraft Annual has yet to arrive, but Wilum Pugmire has perused a copy and winkled out a nugget ‘o news, on a new S.T. Joshi volume…
“The Variorum Lovecraft, to be publish’d by Hippocampus Press in four volumes. […] could begin publication as early as next year, I hope to present all the relevant textual variants for all the stories that Lovecraft wrote over his short literary career. […] may include the printing of passages from handwritten or typed manuscripts (chiefly the former) that were excised as Lovecraft was writing the story or as he performed a subsequent revision of it.”
Sounds like the ideal candidate for an interactive electronic edition?