Category Archives: New books

Robert Nelson (1912-1935)

16 Saturday Jun 2012

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Nodens Books has published a little edition of the collected works of Robert Nelson, Sable Revery: Poems, Sketches and Letters by Robert Nelson…

“Robert Nelson (1912-1935) was a contributor of verse to Weird Tales magazine in the mid-1930s, and of verse and prose to fan magazines like The Fantasy Fan. He was also a correspondent of H.P. Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith. This slim volume collects all of his published poems, prose-sketches and letters, which date from the last four years of his short life. Also included are five letters by H.P. Lovecraft, four to Nelson and one to Nelson’s mother after the young man’s death.”

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?