Some of the news from the German Lovecraftians, this month.

1) They have posted a new interview with author Gary Hill…

In 2006, Gary Hill wrote The Strange Sound of Cthulhu, an extensive study of Cthuloid and Lovecraft-inspired music. Fellow cultist Dennis questioned Gary about his book project and related topics.

In German, but easily auto-translated.

2) Also…

The scholarly non-fiction anthology H.P. Lovecraft and Germany is on the home stretch: the manuscript has been completed and is now going to our publisher, the Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft. There the book is first laid out and then checked by our editorial team – once this has happened, nothing stands in the way of printing.

An Unfinished Teenage Novel, “The Quest of Bleheris”, by the young C.S. Lewis (Narnia books)…

“In 2021, Inklings scholar Don W. King was able to provide a full transcription of “The Quest of Bleheris” in Sehnsucht journal. Recently, Sehnsucht has become an open-access journal.”

It’s an Arthurian romance in the William Morris mode.

New on Archive.org, a fine scan of Travellers’ tales: a book of marvels (1927). The publication date suggests this should have become public domain in January 2023. It was on Archive.org previously, but only in one of those awful scans uploaded by the Digital Library of India.

New on Archive.org “to borrow”, a scan of Pulp fiction of the ’20s and ’30s (2013). The press appear to have kept it in hardcover only, according to Amazon UK, and it’s now thoroughly out-of-print there. No sign of it on eBay either. Thus, it looks like I’m not dinging anyone’s wallet by linking to it here. The contents include, among others…

* On Pulp Fiction and Weird Tales

* Robert E. Howard and the Creation of the Sword-and-Sorcery Sub-genre

* Cthulhu’s Empire: H.P. Lovecraft’s Influence on His Contemporaries and Successors (Joshi)

* Nostalgia in H.P. Lovecraft

* Henry Kuttner: Often-Overlooked Pillar of the Weird Tale

* The Fantastic Pulp Fiction of Frank Belknap Long

From the University of Calgary, a short online news-puff, “A century later, pulp magazines still leave their mark on genre fiction”. This points out that the University is home to…

The Bob Gibson Collection of Speculative Fiction, which contains more than 28,000 published items, including runs of more than 400 pulp magazines like Weird Tales.

And that this is especially appreciated by…

Dr. Anthony Camara, PhD, an associate professor in the Department of English. […] Camara is currently working on an article about non-Euclidian and higher dimensional geometry in Lovecraft’s “The Dreams in the Witch House” from the July 1933 issue of Weird Tales.

Meanwhile, over at Northern Illinois University, the Horatio Alger Fellowship for the Study of American Popular Culture.

A new version of PDF Index Generator, which is the best automatic back-of-the-book index maker. 3.3 (May 2023) has… “fixed footnotes, as it was showing footnote number & normal page number too!” Kind of a useful fix, at least for footnote fiends!

A little expensive at $70, but it’s a one-time perpetual licence and last Black Friday there was a BF30 “30% off” coupon code.