19 Tuesday Oct 2021
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
DMR brings news of a new book of sword & sorcery by Lovecraftian Ramsay Campbell, Far Away & Never. Not quite new, though shiny. It’s a reprint of an apparently quite enjoyable and rollicking set of fantasy-horror stories, from many decades ago.
18 Monday Oct 2021
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
At last, Claveloux and Zha’s classic Dead Season (aka “Off Season”) in a good English edition. March 2022, apparently.
Possibly inspired by a dream Lovecraft had. In the Selected Letters he notes a somewhat similar dream of Providence…
the street car that went by night over a route that had been dismantled for six years, & that lost five hours in climbing College Hill. Finally plunging off the earth into a star-strewn abyss & ending up in the sand-heaped streets of a ruined city which had been under the sea.
The cover forebodes a new digital colouring, complete with yellow faces, but hopefully the interior will be in black and white. It’s also to be found in late 1970s issues of Heavy Metal magazine.
16 Saturday Oct 2021
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
Tucked away in the back of Fantasy Classics #15 (2008), newly arrived on Archive.org, another adaptation of Kadath that’s new to me. Rather nicely done and 48 pages.
15 Friday Oct 2021
Posted in Picture postals
Picture missing
The bus leaving de Land, Florida. This picture looks the other way compared to my view of a few days ago, and shows the likely halt for cross-country buses. This, then, is where Lovecraft would have first met Barlow. On the left we see a Gift Shop. One wonders if cards such as this might have caught Lovecraft’s attention?
Picture missing
14 Thursday Oct 2021
Posted in New books, Scholarly works
Before I could even post it here, the HPLHS has funded their Kickstarter for the new letters journal, a spin-out from the Voluminous podcasts.
13 Wednesday Oct 2021
Posted in Lovecraft as character, New books
The National Review magazine’s Great Books podcast is this week Episode 199: ‘The Call of Cthulhu’ by H.P. Lovecraft…
John J. Miller is joined by Paul LaFarge of Bennington College to discuss H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Call of Cthulhu”.
Who is LaFarge? He turns out to be the author of a complex ‘what if?’ Barlow-as-character novel The Night Ocean (2017). Another one I missed in the Tentaclii hiatus, then. The only non-Amazon / non-paywall full review I can immediately find by search is by The Hysterical Hamster. Warning, the review has lots of plot spoilers.
12 Tuesday Oct 2021
Posted in Scholarly works
Who knew? The Heinlein Society’s Heinlein Journal has morphed from a ‘last seen in 2014’ newsletter-style format, to a stylish new mini-journal format. Four issues so far, twice a year, $5 each.
11 Monday Oct 2021
Posted in Historical context
Early 1920s issues from the Scientific American 1845-2016 microfilm run are now starting to appear on Archive.org.
10 Sunday Oct 2021
Posted in New books
The 1920 novel A Voyage to Arcturus is set to be an “illuminated edition” from cartoonist Jim Woodring, due for publication as a $100 slipcover edition in Spring 2022. Introduction by Alan Moore.
10 Sunday Oct 2021
Posted in Odd scratchings
Michel Houellebecq’s early Lovecraft essay is now available in translation in Argentina, and this triggers a local newspaper to note that a copy of the Necronomicon once resided at the University of Buenos Aires, and that the nation’s favourite son Jorge Luis Borges was influenced by Lovecraft. The translation gets colloquially fuzzy from that point on, but seems to imply that Borges once faked and placed a library card for the Necronomicon in the national library card catalogue (libraries used to be indexed with long wooden boxes of paper-cards, kids). What follows then appears to be an amusingly scattergun Borgesian attempt to link Lovecraft with the apparently well-known local pop-singer Gustavo Cerati, so perhaps the article is not quite to be taken at face value.
09 Saturday Oct 2021
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, New books
Gary Gianni’s illustrated “The Call of Cthulhu” book is shipping. 112 pages with 100+ pencil drawings plus colour inserts. Designed with Marcelo Anciano, it apparently seeks to…
push the boundaries of illustrated books and explore graphic storytelling.
Direct from the publisher Flesk seems the best way to get one before they sell out the print-run.
08 Friday Oct 2021
Posted in Historical context, Picture postals
This week, one of Lovecraft’s favourite places, or rather the back of it. It was one of the last places he visited in his final summer.
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