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Lovecraft in Historical Context 3 – now an ebook for your Kindle

31 Tuesday Jul 2012

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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.

Conference – Gothic: Culture, Subculture, Counterculture

31 Tuesday Jul 2012

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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.”

New book – Lovecraft in Historical Context: a third collection

30 Monday Jul 2012

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I’m pleased to say that the print edition of my annual essays collection is now available for purchase!

Lovecraft in Historical Context: a third collection of essays and notes. 25,000 words, and many illustrations. 120 pages, as a 6″ x 9″ paperback. Buy it here.

Contains expanded, polished, and copiously footnoted/referenced versions of my recent draft essays and short notes. Plus new essays that are exclusive to the print edition.

1. Who was “Harley Warren”?
2. Who were the Blatschkas?
3. Lovecraft’s telescope.
4. Lovecraft’s camera.
5. Edison’s virtual ‘visit’ to Providence, 1896, a source for “Nyarlathotep”.
6. Missing : the Sentinel of Lovecraft’s Sentinel Hill.
7. Running down Danforth, at the Paterson Museum.
8. Neutaconkanut : Lovecraft’s last summer walk.
9. What could Lovecraft and his circle have known of Doctor John Dee?
10. Locating “The Mound”.
11. Some covers of The All-Story.
12. Mirrored : reflections on Lovecraft’s reflections.
13. Ten examples of tentacular propaganda, 1881-1910s.
14. A real horror : on the 1918 flu pandemic in Providence.
And more…!

I hope to produced a hand-coded Kindle ebook edition at some point soon.

Enjoy!

“I am it, and It is I”: Lovecraft in Providence

08 Sunday Jul 2012

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“I am it, and It is I”: Lovecraft in Providence is an interactive mapping website created by University of Virginia undergraduate Paul Mawye. The site…

“connects short passages from the letters of horror writer H.P. Lovecraft with the geography of […] Rhode Island.”

Thankfully, no Flash is involved. The website instead runs on Neatline, which is a system used to make online projects that display combinations of…

“history, literature, and contemporary space and place”