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Kickstarter project for Dream Quest

19 Monday Sep 2011

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Jason B. Thompson has a Kickstarter project to crowd-fund a new edition of The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath and Other Stories in comic book form…

“Here’s my plan: I want to go back to my Dream-Quest comics, retouch the art, and reprint all four stories — Dream-Quest, “Celephais,” “The White Ship” and “The Strange High House” — together in one definitive collection of HPL’s greatest dream stories. The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath will have a new cover, a map of the dreamworld, concept art of the various creatures and places, and a comic adaptation of Lovecraft’s four greatest dream stories. Altogether, it’ll be a 176-page, oversize (approximately A4 [about the same as the U.S. Letter] size) book.”

50 days left to go, and he’s currently had $5,888 pledged of the $10,000 goal.

Lovecraft in Historical Context: further essays and notes – now for the Kindle

18 Sunday Sep 2011

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I’m pleased to say that my summer 2011 book Lovecraft in Historical Context: further essays and notes (31,000 words, 14 essays and two new original stories) is due next week in Kindle format. It’s finished (all hand-coded) and uploaded, and should be approved for the Amazon Kindle Store in a few days.

It can also be purchased as a print paperback.

H.P. Lovecraft as psychogeographer – now available for the Kindle

18 Sunday Sep 2011

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I’m pleased to say that my latest book is now available an an ebook for the Amazon Kindle ereader: on the USA Kindle Store and the U.K. Kindle Store. The hand-coded Kindle edition has a linked table-of-contents, and a fully-linked “round trip” endnotes system.

Walking With Cthulhu: H.P. Lovecraft as psychogeographer, New York City 1924-26

Kindle edition of ‘Walking With Cthulhu’, coming next week

16 Friday Sep 2011

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I’ve hand-coded a Kindle edition of my new book, Walking With Cthulhu: H.P. Lovecraft as psychogeographer, New York City 1924-26. The Kindle edition has a linked table-of-contents, and a fully linked “round trip” endnotes system (i.e.: from each endnote, click back to the correct point in the main text). The Kindle edition has just been accepted by Amazon, and they usually take about three or four days to make it “live” on the Amazon Kindle Store. Hopefully from early next week you should be able to look at the “free 10% sample” and/or buy it. I’ve set a U.S. price of $9.99, with the UK and German prices set to reflect the dollar.

Published: Walking With Cthulhu : H.P. Lovecraft as psychogeographer, New York City 1924-26

01 Thursday Sep 2011

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My new book is here! Walking With Cthulhu : H.P. Lovecraft as psychogeographer, New York City 1924-26. 55,000 words, 198 pages. Illustrated.

Another good haul of new discoveries! Including two new possible sources for Cthulhu. All heavily referenced and footnoted.

Buy a new paperback copy here! Kindle user? It’s also on the USA Kindle Store and the U.K. Kindle Store.

CONTENTS:

Timeline of Key Dates.

Introduction: A Walk in New York.

SURFACE: Walking the Streets of the City:

1. H.P. Lovecraft and the psychogeographers.

2. H.P. Lovecraft’s night walks in New York: psychogeographic techniques

3. The nature of the New York streets.

4. A note on H.P. Lovecraft and immigrants.

5. H.P. Lovecraft’s New York coffee houses and ice-cream parlours.

UNDERGROUND: On the Monstrous, Occult, and Hidden:

6. H.P. Lovecraft and the subway.

7. It emerged from the subways!

8. On mystical and occult New York.

9. On H.P. Lovecraft and Franz Boas

10. New York as R’lyeh, sunken city of Cthulhu.

“Nyarlathotep” annotated.

Bibliography.

Index.

Weird Tales sold to new owner

24 Wednesday Aug 2011

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The modern Weird Tales magazine has been sold by Wildside Press to a new owner/editor. Or at least, the rights to use the brand name for a magazine. The new owner is Marvin Kaye, whose first issue of the magazine will apparently be a Cthulhu special in Feb 2012. SF Scope writes of Kaye…

“The 73-year-old Kaye edited the anthology Weird Tales, The Magazine That Never Dies, which Doubleday published in 1988. He is the author of 16 novels and six nonfiction books, in addition to plays and play adaptations. He has edited at least 30 anthologies, and won the World Fantasy Award for best anthology in 2006 for The Fair Folk.”