10 Thursday Jan 2013
A new interview with Lovecraft, transcribed from a single postcard!
Part of the new Lovecraft edition of The Revelator.
So now we know, H.P. Lovecraft invented Mail Art as well as everything else 😉
09 Wednesday Jan 2013
Posted in New books, Scholarly works
New issue of the reviews journal Dead Reckonings ($7.50, paper only), with what seems(?) to be a non-review essay: “The Weird Scholar” by S.T. Joshi. Or perhaps it’s his listing of noted (but not reviewed) items?
03 Thursday Jan 2013
Posted in New books, Scholarly works
Excellent news for Lovecraft scholars. S.T. Joshi writes that he is assembling his…
“collected essays on Lovecraft, to be published by Hippocampus Press no earlier than 2014. [ … many rarities and] The book will be distressingly large, but will probably not extend to two volumes.”
Keyword-searchable digital version, too, please!
19 Wednesday Dec 2012
Posted in Historical context, New books, Scholarly works
PS Publishing’s website has is taking orders for S.T. Joshi’s monumental new work Unutterable Horror – a History of Supernatural Fiction, Volume 1: From Gilgamesh to the End of the Nineteenth Century, and Unutterable Horror – a History of Supernatural Fiction, Volume 2: The Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries. £35 each, in hardcover.
[ Hat-tip: S.T. Joshi’s blog ]
15 Saturday Dec 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, Scholarly works
Added to the Lovecraft on the Web directory… the Lovecraftian zine Cyaegha. Sadly the format is an old school print-sniffer’s limited edition print chapbook, several of which are marked “SOLD OUT” /sigh/. But the contents look quite fabulous.
![Cyaegha 7 [Lilac]](https://www.jurn.link/tentaclii/oldimages/cyaegha-7-lilac.jpg?w=207)
15 Saturday Dec 2012
Posted in Scholarly works
New additions to the Open Lovecraft page:
* Hannes Storhaug-Meyer (2010), The Morphology of the Unknown : the narrative technique of Howard Philips Lovecraft (Masters degree dissertation, University of Oslo)
* Elizabeth A. Clendinning and Kathleen McAuley (2010), “The Call of Cthulhu : narrativity of the cult in metal”, IN: The Metal Void: First Gatherings, Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2010.
04 Tuesday Dec 2012
Posted in Scholarly works
Interesting news from S.T. Joshi, in his latest blog post, on a definitive Lovecraft ‘starter’ bibliography…
“I have been asked by Oxford University Press to prepare a bibliography of Lovecraft for some online venue. The idea is to present a list of the most important works by and about Lovecraft, with an emphasis on scholarly books and articles on all aspects of Lovecraft’s life, work, and thought. The bibliography will be continually updated. I have already prepared a rough draft of the work and hope to send it to the publisher well in advance of the due date of December 31.”
18 Sunday Nov 2012
Posted in Historical context, Scholarly works
The University of Michigan has announced a free online academic course in Fantasy and Science Fiction: The Human Mind, Our Modern World. No sign-up yet or precise dates yet, but it looks like it might be a 10-week summer school in summer 2013. One to watch.
16 Friday Nov 2012
Posted in Scholarly works
NecronomiCon Providence is calling for scholarly papers for the academic strand on Lovecraft and his works…
“…including the influence of history, architecture, science (anthropology, biology, geology, etc), and popular culture (movies, theater, etc), on his works.”
But you have to be able to deliver it in person in Providence on 23rd-25th August 2013, and if selected will be allotted just twenty minutes. Perhaps fannish conferences such as this could also run a more flexible fannish format in parallel, for those unable to attend: “present the talk to video, and ramble on for as long as you want…” 😉
16 Friday Nov 2012
Posted in Historical context, New books, Scholarly works
A new book by Michael Moon, Darger’s Resources (Duke University Press, 2012), historically contextualises the American outsider artist Henry Darger, through an examination of his actual and likely sources. One chapter that may interest Lovecraftian scholars is called “Wierd Flesh, World’s Flesh: Darger and the pulps”. Google Books is only letting me have a selection of pages but there appears to be no actual suggestion of direct influence, from Darger having read Lovecraft. But Moon notes that Darger’s work on The Realms was contemporaneous (1908/11-1938) with Lovecraft’s working years and ‘the pulp years’, and Moon draws parallels between the two men’s approaches to evoking horrors.
11 Sunday Nov 2012
Posted in New books, Scholarly works
Extract from Milan M. Cirkovic’s The Astrobiological Landscape: philosophical foundations of the study of cosmic life, Cambridge University Press 2012. The last part considers Lovecraft’s “The Colour out of Space”.
10 Saturday Nov 2012
Posted in Scholarly works
Added to the Open Lovecraft page:
* John D. Sanderson (2011), “The Shadow over Galicia: H.P. Lovecraft’s obsessions resurface in the film adaptation of Dagon (2001)”, Odisea No.12, pp.245-255.