03 Sunday Mar 2013
Posted in New books
Just a note that S.T. Joshi’s excellent monumental Lovecraft biography, I Am Providence, is now widely available in paperback. Currently $36 for both volumes with free shipping on Amazon US, or £32 on Amazon UK.
24 Sunday Feb 2013
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, New books
French SF magazine Bifrost is planning a special Lovecraft issue…
“a date has not yet been not yet fixed and the content is not yet fully defined, but the fact is that we are concocting a special Lovecraft issue of Bifrost. […] would like to give a complete explanation of the French HPL and his work, its evolution and everything.”
If you can write in good native French, they might be interested in an article or interview proposal.
15 Friday Feb 2013
New book, A Look Behind the Derleth Mythos: Origins of the Cthulhu Mythos. Apparently the retail version was shipped over Xmas 2012/13. It’s a 390-page book by John D. Haefele, who gives: a defence of Derleth; a survey of Derleth’s Lovecraft collaborations and Derleth’s own Mythos work; and a rebuttal of The Rise and Fall of the Cthulhu Mythos.
12 Saturday Jan 2013
Posted in New books
Interesting new essay on Lovecraft, sadly imprisoned in an $80 academic book…
Brantley L. Bryant, “H.P. Lovecraft’s “Unnamable” Middle Ages”, in: Daniel T. Kline (ed.), Medieval Afterlives in Popular Culture (New Middle Ages)
“examines the hidden influence of the medieval world on H.P. Lovecraft. […] While researching for the essay, Bryant read extensively through Lovecraft’s published criticism and correspondence to find medieval “afterlives” in the work of an author not usually connected with the Middle Ages.”
09 Wednesday Jan 2013
Posted in New books, Scholarly works
New issue of the reviews journal Dead Reckonings ($7.50, paper only), with what seems(?) to be a non-review essay: “The Weird Scholar” by S.T. Joshi. Or perhaps it’s his listing of noted (but not reviewed) items?
03 Thursday Jan 2013
Posted in New books, Scholarly works
Excellent news for Lovecraft scholars. S.T. Joshi writes that he is assembling his…
“collected essays on Lovecraft, to be published by Hippocampus Press no earlier than 2014. [ … many rarities and] The book will be distressingly large, but will probably not extend to two volumes.”
Keyword-searchable digital version, too, please!
19 Wednesday Dec 2012
Posted in Historical context, New books, Scholarly works
PS Publishing’s website has is taking orders for S.T. Joshi’s monumental new work Unutterable Horror – a History of Supernatural Fiction, Volume 1: From Gilgamesh to the End of the Nineteenth Century, and Unutterable Horror – a History of Supernatural Fiction, Volume 2: The Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries. £35 each, in hardcover.
[ Hat-tip: S.T. Joshi’s blog ]
20 Tuesday Nov 2012
Posted in New books
Barnes & Noble is now taking orders for its exclusive 160-page oversize hardback Nightmare Countries: H.P. Lovecraft, the master of cosmic horror by S.T. Joshi. H.P.Lovecraft.com has a page for the book, giving details of the chapter titles and illustrations.
Apparently it’s been piled in some of the Barnes & Noble stores in the USA, for a few weeks now?
18 Sunday Nov 2012
A new blog post from S.T. Joshi, with the news that the definitive Lovecraft biography…
“I Am Providence (2010) will be translated into German.”
16 Friday Nov 2012
Posted in Historical context, New books, Scholarly works
A new book by Michael Moon, Darger’s Resources (Duke University Press, 2012), historically contextualises the American outsider artist Henry Darger, through an examination of his actual and likely sources. One chapter that may interest Lovecraftian scholars is called “Wierd Flesh, World’s Flesh: Darger and the pulps”. Google Books is only letting me have a selection of pages but there appears to be no actual suggestion of direct influence, from Darger having read Lovecraft. But Moon notes that Darger’s work on The Realms was contemporaneous (1908/11-1938) with Lovecraft’s working years and ‘the pulp years’, and Moon draws parallels between the two men’s approaches to evoking horrors.
15 Thursday Nov 2012
Wilum Pugmire has spotted a new book from Oxford University Press: no less than The Classic Horror Stories by one H.P. Lovecraft. Due Summer 2013.
11 Sunday Nov 2012
Posted in New books, Scholarly works
Extract from Milan M. Cirkovic’s The Astrobiological Landscape: philosophical foundations of the study of cosmic life, Cambridge University Press 2012. The last part considers Lovecraft’s “The Colour out of Space”.