Don Herron publishes a lengthy response to the recent book review by S.T. Joshi of John Haefele’s A Look Behind the Derleth Mythos.
Review of a review
23 Monday Sep 2013
Posted in Scholarly works
Category Archives: Scholarly works
The big one
21 Saturday Sep 2013
Posted in Scholarly works
The ‘final frontier’ for Lovecraft studies? Not only having all the Joshi-Shultz complete archive of Lovecraft’s letters placed online, in an electronic searchable scholarly edition — but also having that opened up for a 30-year programme of annotation and hyperlinking by scholars.
Landscapes in the works of H.P. Lovecraft
21 Saturday Sep 2013
Posted in Podcasts etc., Scholarly works
New podcast lecture from Durham University, in the north of England, UK. “Such Terrifying Vistas of Reality’: lunatic landscapes in the works of H.P. Lovecraft”…
“David Varley takes a tour through the uncanny landscapes of H.P. Lovecraft. This lecture was recorded as part of the Late Summer Lecture Series given by Ph.D students to bring new research to a public audience.”
Sadly it’s posted on some crappy Flash player system called MixCloud, rather than as a simple mp3 — and MixCloud doesn’t seem to want to work on my system
Update: Thanks to Read Durham for an alternative MP3 link: http://bit.ly/1f67k4D The long ‘Lovecraft for beginners’ preamble ends 23:28, when the landscape bit starts.
The Variorum Lovecraft
21 Saturday Sep 2013
Posted in New books, Scholarly works
My 2013 Lovecraft Annual has yet to arrive, but Wilum Pugmire has perused a copy and winkled out a nugget ‘o news, on a new S.T. Joshi volume…
“The Variorum Lovecraft, to be publish’d by Hippocampus Press in four volumes. […] could begin publication as early as next year, I hope to present all the relevant textual variants for all the stories that Lovecraft wrote over his short literary career. […] may include the printing of passages from handwritten or typed manuscripts (chiefly the former) that were excised as Lovecraft was writing the story or as he performed a subsequent revision of it.”
Sounds like the ideal candidate for an interactive electronic edition?
Biology and Evolution of the Old Ones
20 Friday Sep 2013
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, NecronomiCon 2013, Scholarly works
Fred S. Lubnow has kindly placed online Part I of the talk, “Human Interpretations on the Biology and Evolution of the Old Ones”, that he gave at NecronomiCon 2013. Once all the parts are posted, then I’ll be adding this to the Open Lovecraft page.
Fred writes…
“The talk is on the biology and evolution of the Old Ones, and I have elaborated on it a bit. A number of people have asked for a copy of the talk, and I thought it would be best to put it onto the blog.”
Further Open Lovecraft
20 Friday Sep 2013
Posted in Scholarly works
Added to the Open Lovecraft page…
* Andreas Schardt (2011), “The Gothic Pastoral: terrible idylls in late nineteenth and twentieth-century literature”. (Ph.D for the Faculty of Modern Languages, University of Heidelberg, Germany. In English. Examines “The Colour out of Space” and “The Dunwich Horror” on pp.163-177).
* Mark Blacklock (2013), Final Bibliography for his 2013 Ph.D thesis “The Fairyland of Geometry: a cultural history of higher space, 1869-1909”. (Relevant to the young Lovecraft’s understanding of fourth-dimensional space and similar scientific matters).
Above: Inside front fold-out plate of The Fourth Dimension (1904).
Got it covered
16 Monday Sep 2013
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, Scholarly works
The Library of Congress Collections Conservation Section is preserving 600 pulp magazine covers…
More Open Lovecraft
15 Sunday Sep 2013
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Added to the Open Lovecraft page…
* Brian J. Reis (2013), “Satanic Indifference and Ultimate Reality”, Lux : a journal of transdisciplinary writing and research, Vol.2, No.1, 2013. (Discusses the idea that the classic religious idea of “Satan was transformed [by Lovecraft] from a symbol of evil in a Manichean universe to an articulate arbiter of the revelation that human existence means nothing cast against the broad spectrum of the cosmos.”)
* Anon (2011), “Lovecraft, Cyclonopedia and Materialist Horror” part one and part two and postscript. (See also the book of responses to the theory-satire Cyclonopedia, Leper Creativity: Cyclonopedia Symposium).
Index to Newspapers published in Rochester
14 Saturday Sep 2013
Posted in Historical context, Scholarly works
“Index to Newspapers published in Rochester, New York”: online for 1818-1850 and for 1851-1897 (of which the Lovecraft entries are here). Rochester was where Lovecraft’s family had settled on coming to America.
RK – Rheinhart Kleiner: A Memoir, scanned PDF
12 Thursday Sep 2013
Posted in Historical context, New books, Scholarly works
Here’s a new PDF edition of RK – Rheinhart Kleiner: A Memoir. A new annotated version of a mimographed pamphlet first issued by James Guinane in 1951. My special thanks to Dennis Weiler for generously acquiring a copy of this scarce booklet, and for emailing me the scans needed to make this new annotated version.
I’ll get this on Archive.org soon too, although yesterday they were down all day for maintenance.
Driftwind and Walter J. Coates
09 Monday Sep 2013
Posted in Historical context, Scholarly works
Lovecraft scholars will occasionally come across mention of the amateur journal Driftwind and the Driftwind Press. This is what the issues looked like (from a new eBay listing)…
Chris Perridas also has other different covers on show, grabbed from eBay over the years.
The East Montpelier Historical Society has online a detailed historical essay on the magazine and its editor, including several photographs.
Find a Grave has other photographs of Walter J. Coates, from the family…
His 250-copy limited edition of his own poetry, Mood Songs (1921), is now scanned and online. The Walter John Coates Papers are now held in the University of Vermont Libraries Special Collections.
Supernatural Horror hyperlinked
08 Sunday Sep 2013
Posted in Scholarly works
Alphabetic listing by authors of stories referenced by H.P. Lovecraft in his essay “Supernatural Horror in Literature”. With hyperlinks to the texts themselves.
