04 Friday Nov 2011
Posted in New books
The Spanish Association of Horror Writers has a new collection of the best Lovecraft Mythos stories in Spanish, Los Nuevos Mytos de Cthulhu. On sale on the 2nd of December 2011, and it’s the flagship title of their new Edge Books imprint.
02 Wednesday Nov 2011
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, New books, Scholarly works
Miskatonic Books announces pre-orders for S.T. Joshi’s Medusa’s Coil and Others. The Annotated Revisions and Collaborations of H.P. Lovecraft, Vol.2.. Superb cover artwork by Zach McCain.
150 print-run, collector’s hardback. Only eight copies left of the first volume, apparently.
01 Tuesday Nov 2011
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, New books, Odd scratchings
The hand-coded ebook edition of my The Spyders of Burslem novel has just landed on the Kindle. It’s now available from Amazon USA and Amazon UK. If you’re in France or Germany, it’s there too.
“It is the year 1869 in the English Midlands pottery town of Burslem, where a new age of industry and learning struggles to be born. A young graduate has arrived to teach the workers, but finds himself on the trail of a deadly evil.”
60,000 words, hand-coded, linked table of contents. Five passes of extra proof-reading for the Kindle edition.
31 Monday Oct 2011
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, New books
I’m very pleased to say that my novel The Spyders of Burslem has been published on Halloween, as planned. Available to buy now as a paperback. Kindle users will have to wait just a little longer, because the Amazon approval process holds things up for a day or two. Here’s the blurb…
The Spyders of Burslem. A dark historical mystery, brought to vivid life. It is the year 1869 in the English pottery town of Burslem, where a new age of industry and learning struggles to be born. A young graduate has arrived to teach the workers, but finds himself on the trail of a deadly evil. A new and original novel of 60,000-words, rich with authentic period details and characters.
Here are the chapter contents from the book’s website… with a link to a free sample chapter. Kindle users will, of, course, be able to read the first 10% of the new book for free.
CONTENTS:
Chapter One: Arrival.
Chapter Two: A Providential Meeting.
Chapter Three: The Raising of the Zodiac.
Chapter Four: A Pint of the Finest.
Chapter Five: In a Darkling Aetherstorm.
Chapter Six: Death and Time.
Chapter Seven: Discoveries.
Chapter Eight: The Scrying.
Chapter Nine: A Cunning Kiss.
Chapter Ten: What the Dark Brings.
Chapter Eleven: The Face and the Mind.
Chapter Twelve: The Shadows of the Blind.
Chapter Thirteen: The Workings of Men.
Chapter Fourteen: Lost and Dreaming.
Chapter Fifteen: A First Frost.
A historical note.
28 Friday Oct 2011
Posted in New books
The New York Times reviews a new Library of America volume: Ambrose Bierce…
“If there’s a genre Bierce was born to, it’s horror. He collected his supernatural tales under the title “Can Such Things Be?” — a question whose tone is cunningly ambiguous, hovering between cool skepticism and slack-jawed amazement. And that is exactly the tone of the stories themselves.”
28 Friday Oct 2011
Posted in New books, Scholarly works
JAS Arqueologia has published a special academic monograph by Riccardo Frigoli, in Spanish, called: “Las excavaciones de R’Lyeh: La arqueología como metodo, la prehistoria como idea y la literatura fantastica de H.P. Lovecraft”. I very roughly translate this as… “The Excavations at R’Lyeh: the methods of archaeology and the prehistory of this [profession, as found] in the fantastical works of H.P. Lovecraft.” The Introduction, in Spanish, is online as a free PDF, if anyone wants to create an accurate English abstract.
22 Saturday Oct 2011
Posted in New books
This Book and I has a long thoughtful review of the Cthulhurotica anthology. I hadn’t realised that it also has an essay, as well as fiction…
Jennifer Brozek in her essay “The Sexual Attraction of the Lovecraftian Universe” [points] to common elements of Lovecraft’s fiction that welcome an erotic interpretation. […] Lovecraft is known for his lush descriptions of decaying towns, dark forests, and arcane ruins that become veritable Scenery Porn. “‘Food porn’ and ‘woodworking porn,'” Emily points out, “… can get as gratuitous as they want: there is no cultural stigma around watching cooking shows or looking at craft magazines, so we don’t feel we need to apologize.”
21 Friday Oct 2011
Posted in New books
Nth Dimension Media has launched the ‘new’ Weird Tales, with a nicely retro cover…
“The new Weird Tales will be open to nearly all sorts of genre fiction, including absurdist humor, fantasy, horror, mystery and surrealism.”
21 Friday Oct 2011
Posted in New books, Podcasts etc., Scholarly works
S.T. Joshi’s blog has updated with a long post on his activities, including a link to a 10-minute MP3 interview between a Penguin Classics Editor, Elda Rotor, and Joshi. The second half of the podcast is a del Toro interview.
I found his mention of this forthcoming book especially interesting…
“John C. Tibbetts’s The Gothic Imagination (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), a substantial collection of interviews with past and current figures in the horror field.”
It seems The Gothic Imagination will be shipping in a few weeks.
[ Hat-tip: Wilum Pugmire ]
19 Wednesday Oct 2011
Posted in New books
Neil Gaiman reads the whole of his macabre children’s novel The Graveyard Book, free on Mouse Circus. Love the idea of going on a book reading tour, reading each chapter to a different audience, then putting video of all the readings on a combined website for a complete book reading.
19 Wednesday Oct 2011
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, New books
Where The Deep Ones Are. Another fab cultural re-mix of lovely Lovecraftian hybridity. This one mashes Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are with Lovecraft’s “The Shadow Over Innsmouth”. Wired magazine has the full story.
17 Monday Oct 2011
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, New books
Phantasmagorium, a new horror fiction e-zine. Edited by Laird Barron. $4.99. No Kindle edition, but you can probably do a basic auto-convert of the ePub with the free Calibre software (my tutorial is here). A print-on-demand edition is said to be due soon.
