11 Friday Feb 2011
Posted in Historical context, Lovecraftian arts, New books
Substantial new New Yorker interview / profile article on Guillermo del Toro’s quest to film At The Mountains of Madness…
Incidentally, my 2010 book of essays on Lovecraft’s Mountains, Ice Cores, should be available on the Amazon Kindle Store within the next 48 hours. Hand-coded, four passes of fresh proofreading for this new edition, and with a linked table-of-contents…
18 Tuesday Jan 2011
Posted in New books, Odd scratchings
After surviving four months in the cargo hold of an Atlantic tramp steamer crewed by swivel-eyed Norwegians (or so it seemed, judging by how long it was taking)… it arriveth!
The two volumes of I Am Providence by S.T. Joshi.
04 Tuesday Jan 2011
Posted in New books, Scholarly works
Sigh. It seems my copy of S.T. Joshi’s magnum opus Lovecraft biography I Am Providence: The Life and Times of H. P. Lovecraft is still in the USA. I had a shipping notification on 28th October 2010, and had hoped it might be in my hands in the UK by Christmas. But I just checked the despatch number, and the system says it’s only just been accepted in the New York depot. Possibly in a crypt in the Red Hook district.
Incidentally, the book is now listed on Amazon USA ($100.00 from Amazon with free shipping). Perhaps it might have been quicker to wait for the Amazon listing, and then (assuming there are copies in their warehouse) rely on Amazon’s generally quite speedy service for the transatlantic shipping.
30 Tuesday Nov 2010
Posted in New books
The hand-written manuscript of Mary Shelley’s famous novel Frankenstein has been put on public display for the first time. The exhibition is titled “Shelley’s Ghost: Reshaping the Image of a Literary Family”, opening on 3rd December and running until 27th March 2011. The exhibition is accompanied by a 176-page catalogue from the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, which is also hosting the exhibition.
29 Friday Oct 2010
Posted in New books
My copy of I Am Providence : the life and times of H. P. Lovecraft is on the way…
“This shipping notification is being sent to you by the U.S. Postal Service…”
I’d like to think the book is making its way across the Atlantic in the dark and slimy hold of an aged tramp steamer, accompanied by wild-eyed Norwegian sailors. But possibly not. I’m hoping to be opening the package in about two weeks.
10 Sunday Oct 2010
Posted in Historical context, New books
Werewolves in Literature: twelve classic stories. New ebook anthology on the Amazon Kindle, on a special introductory offer at $0.99. 112,000-word uniform-style ebook, with linked table-of-contents.
Saki (two stories).
Harold Warner Munn.
Frederick Marryat.
Rudyard Kipling.
Gerald Biss.
Eugene Field.
Guy de Maupassant.
Algernon Blackwood.
Marie de France.
Joseph Jacobs.
William Baldwin.
It’s interesting that Lovecraft, shortly before his death, told someone that he was planning a werewolf epic (Ernest A. Edkins, “Idiosyncrasies of H.P.L.” In Lovecraft Remembered. Edited by Peter Cannon. (Arkham House, 1998). Pages 94-95.)