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.”
30 Monday Jul 2012
Posted in Historical context, New books, New discoveries, Scholarly works, Summer School
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!
18 Wednesday Jul 2012
Posted in Scholarly works
What appears to be a new academic paper, freely online: “Perceptual and relational deictic shift and the development of ‘atmosphere’ in H.P. Lovecraft’s short story The Colour Out of Space“, by Brian P. Elliston.
12 Thursday Jul 2012
Posted in New books, Scholarly works
A forthcoming academic book has a chapter on Lovecraft. Chapter 5 of Reverberations : the philosophy, aesthetics and politics of noise (Aug 2012) is:
Dean Lockwood (Lincoln, UK), “Mongrel Vibrations: H.P. Lovecraft’s Weird Ecology of Noise”
08 Sunday Jul 2012
Posted in Maps, Scholarly works
“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”
