Category Archives: New books

Lovecraftian Archetypes: the eternal feminine

25 Wednesday Apr 2012

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Interesting new book on Lovecraft’s treatment of the feminine, in Italian by Renzo Giorgetti, Lovecraftian Archetypes: the eternal feminine. The English summary…

“In the study of the work of H.P. Lovecraft one theme seems always to be neglected: that of women. In Lovecraft’s intellectual odyssey and his dreaming, always lost in seas of fantastic creation, this theme seems almost deliberately forgotten or relegated to a corner of his conceptions. But on closer examination the female appears numerous times: transformed, concealed, disguised, but ever-present and ready to play a key role. Whether it be ordinary women, or goddesses, monsters and entire civilisations, the female has her place in the Lovecraftian universe, exercising with a magical influence a magnetism towards the unknown and the unfathomable, and always ready to unleash surprising and unexpected potentialities.”

Erik Kriek

19 Thursday Apr 2012

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Broken Frontier reports on a new book of Lovecraft adaptations by Dutch comics celebrity Erik Kriek….

“It would be tempting to illustrate Lovecraft’s highly descriptive style with as few words as possible but Kriek – perhaps aided by producing his wordless Gutsman comics for so many years – recognizes the importance of Lovecraft’s particular wording and rhythmic stance. He opts to use captions in combination with their visual representations but adds enough visual stimulus so that words and pictures form an interdependent relationship. It is a decision prone to many traps (as many a literary graphic adaptation can attest to) but Kriek succeeds fairly well. He knows when to step back, let the dialogue take over and when to cut back on the caption level.”

Update, 2021: A decade later, and still no translation into English. In fact, almost nothing of his is in English. Does he just ask too high a price for the translation rights?

The Ghost of Fear

27 Tuesday Mar 2012

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Now in stock and shipping. A collection of stories Lovecraft is known to have especially admired, presented as a $50 limited-edition hardback…

The Ghost of Fear and Others…

Contents:

Introduction by S.T. Joshi
Idle Days on the Yann by Lord Dunsany
Fragments from the Journal of a Solitary Man by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Man Who Went Too Far by E.F. Benson
The Mark of the Beast by Rudyard Kipling
The Sin-Eater by Fiona Macleod
The House of Sounds by M.P. Shiel
The Phantom Farmhouse by Seabury Quinn
One of Cleopatra’s Nights by Theophile Gautier
The Stranger from Kurdistan by E. Hoffmann Price
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar by Edgar Allan Poe
Novel of the White Powder by Arthur Machen
The Dead Smile by F. Marion Crawford
The Ghost of Fear by H.G. Wells
Lukundoo by Edward Lucas White
Bells of Oceana by Arthur J. Burks
The Wind in the Portico by John Buchan

Future Lovecraft to rocket into bricks and mortar bookstores

27 Tuesday Mar 2012

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With publishers on the lookout for SF again, the anthology Future Lovecraft has been picked up for reprinting with a view to major bookstore distribution…

Future Lovecraft Will Return… as a trade paperback. Future Lovecraft, originally published by Innsmouth Free Press and edited by me and Paula R. Stiles, is being reprinted by Prime Books. It will be available August 2012 in all sales channels. What does this mean? Brick-and-mortar sales. You’ll be able to walk into your Barnes & Noble or favourite indie store and pick a copy.

It’s already listed for pre-order on Amazon UK, which would seem to show that Prime is a publisher with some savvy. You can also currently get a Kindle edition for a bargain £2.49 in the UK.

S.T. Joshi’s blog updates

16 Friday Mar 2012

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A new blog post was made yesterday by S.T. Joshi…

“I was pleased to be asked by Scarecrow Press to initiate a series of scholarly or academic books on weird fiction. The series will, I believe, be called The Literature of the Supernatural.”

And the much-anticipated ‘heavily illustrated’ version of the biography, H.P. Lovecraft: Nightmare Countries, seems to be progressing well. I’m certainly really champing at the bit for that one.

   [ Hat-tip: Wilum Pugmire ]