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.
Lovecraft to have an Oxford University Press collection
15 Thursday Nov 2012
Category Archives: New books
Astrobiological Landscape
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”.
Lovecraftian Monster Book
08 Thursday Nov 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, New books
New, Lovecraftian Monster Book…
“over 300 monsters featuring exactly as they are appear and described in … the Cthulhu Mythos … drawn by talented artist Michael Bukowski“
Clark Ashton Smith to have a Penguin Classics volume
25 Thursday Oct 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, New books, Scholarly works
Super news from S.T. Joshi. He’s to edit a collection of Clark Ashton Smith for Penguin Classics. Stories, but also prose-poems and poems. Let’s hope the forthcoming merger with Random House doesn’t see the planned roster for Penguin Classics affected.
Joshi has also…
“been asked to be the keynote speaker at a conference on weird fiction to be hosted by Birkbeck College, [University of] London, around November 8, 2013”
Houdini & Lovecraft: The Ghost Writer
12 Friday Oct 2012
Posted in New books
A new Kindle ebook, Houdini & Lovecraft: The Ghost Writer, a novelization of a feature-film screenplay. Sounds interesting…
“It’s 1924, an era of emerging technology, but also of spiritualism and [stage] magic. Harry Houdini, the great conjurer and mystifier, well known as a psychic debunker, is hired to put together a team to investigate [plot spoiler]. Meanwhile, horror writer H.P. Lovecraft is down on his luck [in New York, and] Houdini drafts the reluctant Lovecraft to join his team […] to chronicle the magician’s adventures in the paranormal.”
The author Ron Wilkerson has written a good deal of the newer Star Trek series, and…
“…was nominated for an Emmy as a part of the writing team on the seventh season of Star Trek: The Next Generation.”
New England Vampire Panics of the 1800s
25 Tuesday Sep 2012
Posted in Historical context, New books, Scholarly works
The Smithsonian magazine has a long article on “The Great New England Vampire Panic”. The story is based on the work of a consulting folklorist at the Rhode Island Historical Preservation & Heritage Commission, who has documented…
“80 exhumations […] concentrated in backwoods New England, in the 1800s” […] “The public hysteria almost invariably occurred in the midst of savage tuberculosis outbreaks”
Sword and Mythos
24 Monday Sep 2012
Posted in New books
The Sword and Mythos doorstopper anthology, set to combine sword-n-sorcery with Lovecraft’s mythos, is now fully funded on IndieGoGo. 42 hours left to “stretch” the project with some additional donations.
Sanitarium
21 Friday Sep 2012
Posted in New books
Added to the Fiction Magazines section of the ‘Lovecraft on the Web’ links directory: Sanitarium. The first issue is reportedly almost ready, and it should be launching any day now.
Pickman’s Model as a graphic novel
21 Friday Sep 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, New books
Kim Holmes’s new 112-page graphic novel of “Pickman’s Model”, online for free or as a $10 paperback.
The Color over Occam is published
18 Tuesday Sep 2012
Posted in New books
A novel-length and Joshi-endorsed sequel to “The Colour out of Space”, The Color over Occam is now available in hardback. The blurb and synopsis don’t appear to suggest that it’s anything special, but according to Joshi it’s…
“one of the finest horror novels of any sort written in the last 50 years” — S.T. Joshi.
Three-Lobe Burning Eye
13 Thursday Sep 2012
Posted in New books
Another Three-Lobe Burning Eye zine (not to be confused with the forthcoming illustration-based zine-book). This one is a long-running magazine of speculative fiction. Web link added to this blog’s “Lovecraft on the Web” page, in Fiction Magazines.
Probing the tentacles of modern philosophy
12 Wednesday Sep 2012
Posted in New books, Scholarly works
William Koch has a detailed new review of Graham Harman’s new book Weird Realism: Lovecraft and Philosophy
“the book represents what seems [at first] to be an exceptionally idiosyncratic project, arguing that a position similar to the one [that the German poet] Holderlin fills for Heideggerian phenomenology should be occupied by H.P. Lovecraft for thinkers of Speculative Realism.”