Newly listed, what appears to be a new book of translations of Lovecraft’s letters… or at least, new to the French in French. Selection de lettres (1927-1929): De vagues fragments d’un reve dans lequel je n’ai rien s faire (‘Vague fragments of a dream in which I have nothing to do’) was due in March but is now listed as shipping in early April 2023…

The translator Vincent-Pierre Angouillant offers us the translation of a hundred letters by Lovecraft. Knowing his impressive letters makes his fictional universe an even richer experience. Never before published in France, these letters are but a fragment of Lovecraft’s surviving correspondence. Often he reveals what seems an ordinary daily life, yet this is described in a style unique to Lovecraft and we can only marvel at the ways in which he interweaves his immense erudition. The reader will also encounter striking accounts of his dreams and nightmares, sometimes amounting to tales in their own right, in which the master instantly transports us into his horrific universe.

A chunky 600-page book, apparently. Looks good, if you’re a French Lovecraftian.

I see the same translator also has Selected Letters of an Anachronistic Gentleman (2022) which collected in one volume his two earlier volumes of translated letters and one booklet of 1925 letters. He seems to have started with his 1925 booklet in August 2021, and is rapidly working his way through the letters from there.

New Book: William Hope Hodgson and the Rise of the Weird: Possibilities of the Dark, billed as…

The first comprehensive study of the works of William Hope Hodgson

Pre-ordering now at a hefty ‘academic libraries only’ price, for what’s currently listed as a 1st June 2023 release.

Javier Calvo has translated Lovecraft’s letters into Spanish, and apparently this is the very first time there has been such a book-length translation. The new book is evidently a ‘selected letters’, focusing on Lovecraft’s labour and growth as a writer…

Edited by Javier Calvo, based on a corpus of more than twelve thousand pages, this first volume, ‘Writing Against Men’, focuses on Lovecraft’s literary career: his projects, goals, successes, and failures; his relationship with his literary circle; and the birth of the momentous mythology of it.

Apparently this is the first of three planned volumes, something which seems almost certain given the strong interest in the man in the Spanish-speaking world. Said to be shipping in February 2023, and listed on Amazon.es under the title “Escribir contra los hombres. Cartas de H. P. Lovecraft, Vol. I”. The Amazon listing reveals that the first volume is a table-trembler at a hefty 544 pages. The price is 35 Euro, which converts to around $38.

Also in Spain, the leftist newspaper El Pais ($ paywall) had a weekend article on The Commonplace Book of H.P. Lovecraft. I can’t get past the paywall, but perhaps there’s also a new translation of the Commonplace Book in Spain, occasioning the new article?

The French should today be unboxing their sixth volume of the complete H.P. Lovecraft. This is the new French translation from Mnemos. The book shipped last week, if the Amazon UK date can be trusted.

Not quite the final volume in the sumptuous set. The last will be Vol. 7 in March 2023, which is either “About Lovecraft” or “Lovecraft’s Circle” depending on how you translate its title.

The Pulp Super-Fan makes an initial survey of Robert M. Price’s Lovecraftian collections. Since Price’s podcasts have become scarce, I was unaware of his two collections of his own Mythos fiction, in 2019 and a follow-on in 2020.

His main 588-page book one can now be had as an affordable ebook, Blasphemies & Revelations. While the shorter companion of the following year, Horrors & Heresies, still seems to be in paperback only.

A look at his Amazon page also reveals… ahaa… what’s this… Crypt of Cthulhu #114 (July 2022) on Amazon as an ebook. Yes, a substantial new issue of Crypt came out in summer 2022 and is the first since 2019. Who knew? Includes a look at “Lovecraft and Cinema in his Day”, and an interview with David E. Schultz, among others.

The earlier #113 issue is still the latest listed over at the PDF downloads page.

I’ve updated my recent survey of ‘Lovecraft in 2022’ with the new information on Crypt. I’ve also added there the news about Derleth slipping into the public domain in Canada, now that this is confirmed (their new 2023 ’70-year law’ is not retrospective). Idle notion: what if Robert M. Price were to re-write Derleth’s ‘Lovecraft collaborations’ as they should have been… now that would be something to behold!