29 Saturday Jun 2013
Posted in New books, Scholarly works
Newly announced from Scarecrow Press… Lord Dunsany, H.P. Lovecraft, and Ray Bradbury: Spectral Journeys by William F. Touponce.
“examines what these three masters of weird fiction reveal about modernity and the condition of being modern in their tales. In this study, Touponce confirms that these three authors viewed storytelling as a kind of journey into the spectral.”
Sadly out of my reach at a whopping $75 🙁
27 Thursday Jun 2013
Posted in Scholarly works
W.H. Pugmire article in Nightmare Magazine, spring-boarding from the receipt of…
“the current issue of Famous Monsters of Filmland [#267], which I ordered because S.T. Joshi wrote two articles for it. The issue amazed me, because none of the articles cover film adaptations of Lovecraft’s Works. Two articles (“Lovecraft’s Acolytes,” by Robert M. Price and “The New Mythos Writers,” by S. T. Joshi) discuss those writers who were influenced by his fiction and have written tales therein, from the time that Lovecraft was alive to the present day; and one article (“The Language of Lovecraft,” by Holly Interlandi) looks at Lovecraft’s prose style and sentence structure!”
17 Monday Jun 2013
Posted in Scholarly works
A funded Phd in the UK, which might appeal to some readers here, looking at early and contemporary fan-cultures around Sherlock Holmes.
12 Wednesday Jun 2013
Posted in Scholarly works
Lots of additions to the Open Lovecraft page on this blog.
12 Wednesday Jun 2013
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New long blog post from Jason Colavito on H.P. Lovecraft and Megalithic New England…
“H.P. Lovecraft almost certainly never visited Mystery Hill, which was not a tourist attraction at the time Lovecraft lived. It was private land in those days. The site did not open to the public until 1937, when William Goodwin purchased it, rebuilt it to resemble a European megalithic site, and gave it its longtime name.”
“It should be fairly obvious from their description, usage, and placement that Lovecraft’s stone circles [in “The Dunwich Horror”] were modeled on Old World examples”
08 Saturday Jun 2013
Posted in Scholarly works
New June 2013 issue of the radical philosophy journal Speculations: a journal of speculative realism. Free as a PDF.
03 Monday Jun 2013
Posted in Historical context, New books, Scholarly works
Hippocamus has dated and priced an interesting sounding bit of book-length Lovecraft geographia. David Goudsward’s book H.P. Lovecraft in the Merrimack Valley. It ship out in July at $15. The book looks at a…
“fascinating aspect of Lovecraft’s life which has been explored only lightly in the past—his association with the Merrimack Valley and fellow amateur journalists Charles W. “Tryout” Smith (1852–1948), Myrta Alice (Little) Davies (1888–1967), and Edgar J. Davis (1908–1949), who lived there or nearby for most of their lives.”
Don Gorvett, “Mill on the Merrimack”.
“by the 1930s […] entire regions like north-eastern Connecticut and the Merrimack Valley of New Hampshire and Massachusetts appeared to be left behind by history, and the sight of abandoned factories was as common as that of deserted farms” […] “the rural hinterlands seemed to be largely populated with inbred, degenerated retards” [and newspapers pictured] “them as a bunch of mutated dwarfs, giants, and idiots.” (Bernd Steiner, “The Decline of a Region”, H.P. Lovecraft and the Literature of the Fantastic, 2007, p.33).
03 Monday Jun 2013
Posted in Scholarly works
A huge new 8,000 word interview with S.T. Joshi on his life and work methods and his library, even including a pic of his gorgeous cat!
02 Sunday Jun 2013
Posted in New books, Scholarly works
Table of contents for the new book of essays H.P. Lovecraft’s Dark Arcadia: The Satire, Symbology and Contradiction
The book argues against the myths that Lovecraft: i) shunned the depiction of females and female sexuality; ii) did not use the usual hackneyed and time-worn gothic and supernatural beings in his fiction; iii) preferred the cosmic and the utterly-alien to the mundane; iv) that his ideas became those of a left-leaning socialist as he grew older. Also has some interesting-sounding looks at Lovecraft’s engagements with classical antiquity.
30 Thursday May 2013
Posted in Scholarly works
Pulp Studies, new website of The Pulp Studies Area of the U.S. Popular Culture Association.
30 Thursday May 2013
Posted in Scholarly works
A single page Inventory of the H.P. Lovecraft Collection, on the website of the Rhode Island Archival and Manuscript Collections Online. Very usefully annotated, and easily searchable by keyword.
HPL has discovered that he is descended from the Elizabethan astronomer John Field. “For one who has always had an eye for the heavens himself, this sure is quite a find!” [Lovecraft to Robert H. Barlow, 14th May 1936]
28 Tuesday May 2013
Posted in Historical context, Scholarly works
The Mormons (LDS) have officially put three of Kenneth W. Faig Jr.’s Lovecraft books online for free. No, they haven’t suddenly taken to worshiping Cthulhu. The Mormons are interested in anything genealogical, since tracing your ancestors is apparently a key part of their religion. So they’re happy to include serious works of that nature in their vast online databases. No registration required, to view.
George Elliott Lovecraft: Lost Scion of the House of Lovecraft (Moshassuck, 2010).
Qvae Amamvs Tvemvr: Ancestors in Lovecraft’s Life & Fiction (Moshassuck, 2008).
Devonshire Ancestry of Howard Phillips Lovecraft (with Chris Docherty & Langley Searles) (Moshassuck, 2003).
Faig’s 1993 Phillips genealogy (with its 1994 Corrections & Additions volume) for Lovecraft’s maternal line is available free, but only via LDS microfilm. Presumably one can access it via local LDS research centres, of which there are many.