Goldsmiths Press

07 Friday Aug 2015

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Goldsmiths, the famous London art and design school, is set to launch an ‘inventive’ University press under open access, later in 2015…

Goldsmiths, University of London is preparing to launch Goldsmiths Press, a new university press built on digital-first publishing, and interested in unconventional projects traditionally excluded by publishers. … We have a particular interest in projects that are ordinarily overlooked or excluded by traditional academic publishers … also interested in non-standard modes and forms of communication, such as an article in the form of a comic or graphic novel…”

Possibly the sort of place that a proposed Lovecraft-infused sci-art book on Tentacular Interactivities in an Internet of Hypercomputing Slime-molds, etc, might find a home. 🙂

Facts in the Case of H.P. Lovecraft

07 Friday Aug 2015

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Barton L. St. Armand, “Facts in the Case of H.P. Lovecraft”, Rhode Island History, January 1972. (Originally presented as a lecture Nov 1969).

“A rather unusual assortment of readers may have been stirred by a minor item in The New York Times Book Review, May 17, 1970. Included under the heading of “Revivals” in the “European Notebook” of Mark Slonim, it announced to its American audience that…

A most striking phenomenon in France, Italy and Spain is the number of translations (mostly very good) of the American science-fiction writer H.P. Lovecraft. Not only are they widely read in Paris, Rome, and Madrid, but Lovecraft is also hailed by the leading critics as superior to Poe. The Spanish essayist Jose Luis Garcia recently included Lovecraft in a list of 10 best writers of the world, and the French sophisticated periodical L’Herne dedicated a special large issue to the greatest American master of supernatural literature.”

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05 Wednesday Aug 2015

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* Stephen Whitty (2015), “Forbidden Words: Taboo Texts in Popular Literature and Cinema”, The Journal of the Rutgers University Libraries, Vol. 67, 2015. (Broad historical survey of the theme of the “discovery of an esoteric text containing “forbidden words” that … unleash evil”)

Fifteen Years of Hippocampus Press

05 Wednesday Aug 2015

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Shipping now, the new book Fifteen Years of Hippocampus Press: 2000-2015.

Picture: A peek into Hippocampus’s hardback of Joshi’s I Am Providence. Photo by Will Hart.

On new Hippocampus books, S.T. Joshi’s blog recently reported that he is making progress on new (revised?) e-book versions for his…

“H.P. Lovecraft: The Decline of the West (Starmont House, 1990), A Subtler Magick: The Writings and Philosophy of H.P. Lovecraft (Starmont House, 1996)”

He also writes…

“we are also planning ebooks of such things as Donald R. Burleson’s H.P. Lovecraft: A Critical Study (Greenwood Press, 1983), Peter Cannon’s H.P. Lovecraft (Twayne, 1989), and perhaps other titles.”

Teaching Tolkien

04 Tuesday Aug 2015

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Waymeet for Tolkien Teachers is a new website / signposting hub for those teaching Tolkien — perhaps alongside Lovecraft, Peake etc. It seems the intention is for the Waymeet to become an open “digital journal” on the topic (see the “submit articles” link on the menu), and as such it may interest readers who teach Tolkien-as-horror (barrow wights, Shelob, tentacled pool-dwellers, Black Riders, Mirkwood spiders etc).

Journal of Dracula Studies – dead, or just resting in a crypt somewhere?

02 Sunday Aug 2015

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Anyone know where the Journal of Dracula Studies is? Not here (click the PDF article links — they’re all dead) or here (as good as dead, last activity was 2012) or here (dead).

More new scholarly Lovecraft books

01 Saturday Aug 2015

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More new scholarly print books from Hippocampus Press…

Donald R. Burleson’s Lovecraft: An American Allegory is a new book collection of his essays from the past 40 or so years. It appears to be shipping now.

* Darkness and Light: Lovecraft’s Impact on My Life

* Thematic Studies

Zen and the Art of Lovecraft
A Note on Lovecraft, Mathematics, and the Outer Spheres
Lovecraft and Chiasmus, Chiasmus and Lovecraft
Lovecraft and the World as Cryptogram
Lovecraft and the Death of Tragedy
Lovecraft and Romanticism
Lovecraft: An American Allegory
Lovecraft and Adjectivitis: A Deconstructionist View
Lovecraft and Chaos
Lovecraft and Interstitiality
Lovecraft and Gender
H.P. Lovecraft: Textual Keys

* Sources and Influences

H.P. Lovecraft: The Hawthorne Influence
Strange High Houses: Lovecraft and Melville
Ambrose Bierce and H.P. Lovecraft
A Note on Lovecraft and Rupert Brooke

* Studies of Individual Tales

Iranon and Kuranes: An Intertextual Gloss
On Lovecraft’s Fragment “Azathoth”
Aporia and Paradox in “The Outsider”
Is Lovecraft’s “Ph’nglui mglw’nafh . . .” a Cryptogram?
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath
The Mythic Hero Archetype in “The Dunwich Horror”
Prismatic Heroes: The Colour out of Dunwich
Humour beneath Horror: Some Sources for “The Dunwich Horror” and “The Whisperer in Darkness”
The Thing: On the Doorstep

* Lovecraft’s Poetry

Lovecraft’s “The Unknown”: A Sort of Runic Rhyme
On Lovecraft’s “Nemesis”
On Lovecraft’s “The Ancient Track”
Scansion Problems in Lovecraft’s “Mirage”
Lovecraft’s Cheshire Cat
Lines of Verse Evoking Close Reading: Acrostics-Formulated Text

Also Lovecraftian Proceedings No. 1, a print collection of the papers read at NecronomiCon 2013, and is set for publication August 2015. I’m unsure if these are verbatim from the conference, or if some have been expanded.

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31 Friday Jul 2015

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* Brandon Reynolds (2008), “Slumming in the horror-fantasy ghetto: utopian ideals in the work of H.P. Lovecraft” (Masters dissertation for California State University)

* Gavin Weston et al (2015), Anthropologists in Films: “The Horror! The Horror!”, American Anthropologist, Vol. 117, No. 2, pp. 1–13, June 2015. (Finds 53 films featuring fictional representations of anthropologists, 26 of those being horror films. “We examine the role of anthropologists in these films as experts and mediators for seemingly alien “others” and how this lends itself to frequently heroic depictions”)

* Alexander A. G. Gladwin, Matthew J. Lavin, Daniel M. Look (2015), “Stylometry and Collaborative Authorship: Eddy, Lovecraft, and “The Loved Dead””, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities (Oxford), July 2015.

Brown Digital Repository : the Howard P. Lovecraft Collection

25 Saturday Jul 2015

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Brown Digital Repository : the Howard P. Lovecraft Collection. 30 documents scanned so far, including many complete letters to Bloch and others with Lovecraft’s sketches, envelopes etc. I noticed a typescript of “The Lurking Fear” as well. The server quality is very iffy at present, frequent time-outs and then the server totally died before I could get screenshots. I hope the Lovecraftian traffic hasn’t crashed it already… 🙂

“Sheet lightnings illumed the tumbled ground”

25 Saturday Jul 2015

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The University of Iowa Special Collections & University Archives now has a Tumblr. Simply being able to use the world’s most unusable Web service is pretty awesome in my view, but it gets even more awesome — this particular Tumblr is dedicated to their ongoing work in digitising the vast James L. “Rusty” Hevelin Collection — vintage pulps, rare fanzines, fan convention materials and science fiction books. The collection is being unboxed, shelved and methodically scanned with library-quality scanners. It’s my understanding that professional practice means that the covers and tables-of-contents of each issue are first scanned, to serve as a sort of locational/visual index to the collection.

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24 Friday Jul 2015

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* Brad Tabas (2015), “Dark Places : Ecology, Place, and the Metaphysics of Horror Fiction”, Miranda, No.11, 2015. (Contains sections on ‘Lovecraft, (Non)locality, and Madness’, and ‘On Weird Realism and the Future of Ecology’).

* Marie Eriksson (2015), “Framling eller Outsider: om nyoversattning av H.P. Lovecraft’s novell The Outsider”. (Masters dissertation for Lunds University, Sweden. In Swedish. Title in English: “Stranger or Outsider: a study of H.P. Lovecraft’s short story “The Outsider” in retranslation”).

* Marta Fernandez Ruiz and Hector Puente Bienvenido (2015), “Universos fantasticos de inspiracion Lovecraftiana en videojuegos survival horror”, Brumal: revista de investigacion sobre lo fantastico, Vol.3, No.1, 2015, pp.95-118. (A study of Lovecraft’s influence on the popular videogame genre of ‘survival horror’. In Spanish with English abstract).