17 Friday Aug 2012
Posted in Historical context, New discoveries, Scholarly works
Since Lovecraft’s birthday falls on a Monday this year, I’m releasing my ‘122nd birthday present’ a few days early, so readers can peruse it over the weekend. Enjoy Lovecraft’s 1927 essay “The History of the Necronomicon“, annotated by myself with 6,900 words of scholarly footnotes…
17 Friday Aug 2012
Posted in New books, Scholarly works
The new 2012 edition of the Lovecraft Annual scholarly journal is now available, from Hippocampus Press. $15 with free shipping. Including:
Anna Klein, “Misperceptions of Malignity: Narrative Form and the Threat to America’s Modernity in “The Shadow over Innsmouth””.
Gavin Callaghan, “Elementary, My Dear Lovecraft: H.P. Lovecraft and Sherlock Holmes.”
13 Monday Aug 2012
Posted in Scholarly works
Added to the Open Lovecraft page…
Wouter J. Hanegraaff (2007), “Fiction in the Desert of the Real: Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos”, Aries 7, pp.85-109.
Related to this essay’s theme of the French interpretation of Lovecraft are two blog articles by Jason Colavito: “Pauwels, Bergier, and Lovecraft”; and “Lovecraft themes in Bergier’s later work”.
12 Sunday Aug 2012
Posted in Scholarly works
Other Worlds, a Victorian Network Conference, 3rd Dec 2012 in the UK.
“From other lands to other planets to other dimensions, the nineteenth-century imagination thrived on the idea of ‘elsewhere’. Other Worlds seeks to explore the many ways in which Victorians looked beyond to imagined alternatives … other, alternative, transcendent, secret or hidden.”
11 Saturday Aug 2012
Posted in Scholarly works
New addition to the Open Lovecraft library…
Aleksandra Borowskal (2011), “H.P. Lovecraft’s style in translation: a case study of selected stories and their Polish versions“. (In English, with Polish cover page. Appears to be a Masters dissertation?)
07 Tuesday Aug 2012
Posted in Housekeeping, Scholarly works
Added at the end of the Open Lovecraft listings page…
“Also recently available online — scholarly articles from The Crypt of Cthulhu, c.1980-85:”
06 Monday Aug 2012
Posted in Historical context, Scholarly works
The complete CD-ROM version of Lovecraft’s Collected Essays volumes is available at Innsmouth House with a 25% off discount throughout August 2012. Discount applied automatically at checkout, so the offer says. Innsmouth House is based in the UK, so for us Brits I’m guessing that the price won’t be inflated too much by extra shipping and dollar-conversion costs. PayPal accepted. I’m very tempted, but I can’t really afford it, even at that price…
“This groundbreaking CD-ROM incorporates not only the text of the entire five volumes of H.P. Lovecraft’s Collected Essays, with annotations, bibliographical citations, and introductions, but also the complete texts of Lovecraft’s own journal The Conservative, plus actual scans of the entire run of the journal. This amazing archive is fully searchable…”
03 Friday Aug 2012
Posted in Scholarly works
The new Weird Tales website has a complete S.T. Joshi interview (from June 2012), free online…
“The more you read Lovecraft’s letters and learn about his life, the more you realise what a pungent sense of humour he had. This doesn’t come out in his fiction precisely because he felt (rightly, I think) that humor doesn’t mix well with the kind of intense, clutching horror he sought to write. But he really had a good sense of humour, ranging from light-hearted buffoonery to biting satire.”
31 Tuesday Jul 2012
Posted in Odd scratchings, Scholarly works
Here’s a thought for a 125th birthday present for H.P. Lovecraft (20th August 2015). A new public-access library collection, containing copies of all of the print scholarship ever written about him. The purchase of these books and journals to be funded by a major Kickstarter or IndieGoGo campaign. To be open and catalogued by 2017, which is the 100th anniversary of the inception of the Mythos.
31 Tuesday Jul 2012
Posted in Scholarly works
Article on Lovecraft’s mathematics-inspired spaces…
Thomas Hull (2006), “H.P. Lovecraft: a Horror in Higher Dimensions”, Math Horizons, Vol.13, No.3, Feb 2006, pp.10-12.
31 Tuesday Jul 2012
Posted in Historical context, New books, Scholarly works
I’m pleased to say that my new book, Lovecraft in Historical Context: a third collection of essays and notes, is now available for the Kindle ebook reader, in the USA and the UK.
This was a 12-hour hand-coding job, with four passes of proof-reading on an actual Kindle, and is not an automatic conversion. There is a linked table-of-contents, and the footnotes are fully interactive “round trip” links.
The ebook is also available for the Kindle in Germany and Italy.
A 120-page print edition is also available, for those who prefer print. This print edition link will also get you to the table-of-contents and a PDF sample.
31 Tuesday Jul 2012
Posted in Scholarly works
A forthcoming conference: “Gothic: Culture, Subculture, Counterculture“, 8th-9th March 2013 at St Mary’s University College, Twickenham and Strawberry Hill House, London.
“This conference, held in the Gothic mansion at Strawberry Hill, west London, will interrogate the many and varied cultures of the Gothic that were largely set in train by the owner of this mansion, Horace Walpole, in the mid-eighteenth century.”