28 Wednesday Jul 2021
Posted in New books, Scholarly works
Now listed at Hippocampus, the revised and augmented book Out of the Immortal Night: Selected Works of Samuel Loveman. The word “augmented” seems a bit of an understatement, as this second edition of the book has grown from 244 to 514 pages. Also new is Born under Saturn: The Letters of Samuel Loveman and Clark Ashton Smith…
The correspondence begins in 1913 [then extends] sporadically all the way down to 1941.
27 Tuesday Jul 2021
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
New and Lovecraft-y on DeviantArt. Mostly toony at present…
The Gate by npantic. Dreamlands art.
Not new, but it popped up in a search. ‘Out of the South it would glide …’ by rod-roesler. “The White Ship”.
The Void by davidmichaelKurth.
Yog Sothoth by NestorAvalosOfficial.
The Great Race of Yith by NaestvedDK. Possibly a draft for a tattoo design.
If Disney did Lovecraft. A super-villain Elder Thing by ProdigyDuck.
26 Monday Jul 2021
Posted in Historical context
A run of Popular Mechanics magazine, 1902-2016 is being uploaded to Archive.org from microfilm, with 500 now uploaded (some still processing and just showing the cover). Including Lovecraft era titles. Such as this one from January 1926, just over a year before “The Colour Out of Space”…
26 Monday Jul 2021
Posted in Scholarly works
New to me, the open access journal Victorian Popular Fictions, with a noticeable tilt toward mystery and the supernatural. The latest issue offers “Science and Stories in the Work of Grant Allen”. There are also book reviews and calls-for-papers for the next four issues.
24 Saturday Jul 2021
Posted in Historical context, New discoveries
An article on special effects in movies, by Lovecraft’s friend and Kalem member Arthur Leeds. In the Writer’s Digest for July 1922, recently uploaded to Archive.org.
He had a number of practical and market-survey articles in Writer’s Digest from summer 1921 and into 1922, plus an interview-based article on George Allen England.
23 Friday Jul 2021
Posted in Scholarly works
S.T. Joshi’s blog has updated and brings the welcome news that…
Mark Griffin … is assembling a combined index to all the Hippocampus Press Letters volumes — a very useful undertaking!
22 Thursday Jul 2021
Posted in Historical context
New on Archive.org in public PDF, The Pulp Jungle (1967) by Frank Gruber. A pithy and entertaining memoir of writing for the New York City pulps from 1927 and through the 1930s, as recalled in the mid 1960s. The uploader notes…
It’s now a rare book, long out-of-print and increasingly difficult to find on the second-hand market.
Frank Gruber, pulp writer.
22 Thursday Jul 2021
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, Scholarly works
Four more scans of Derleth’s 1940s Arkham Sampler, added to Archive.org as public PDFs. These do not duplicate the existing scans.
22 Thursday Jul 2021
Posted in Historical context
Phil Hine on H.P. Lovecraft and Pan, the ancient mythic figure. The young Lovecraft was enraptured by the 18th century’s sylvan poetic evocations of Pan. Hine also discusses the story “The Temple” from a pagan perspective.
21 Wednesday Jul 2021
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
“The Cats of Ulthar” has been adapted as an indie videogame, albeit with the game-mechanics offering what appears to be a horrible motion-sickness inducing camera. Not sure Ulthar has electric lighting either, but it looks like a good low-budget try at making the story into a game.
20 Tuesday Jul 2021
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
A portrait of Lovecraft, published in issue 27 of the early videogame magazine ACE (December 1989) and new on Archive.org. A bit fuzzy, it has not been scanned well and it does not up-scale well. But it appears to be by “D.C. Designs”. Which makes it by Dave Carson of south London, in the UK, who apparently also sold limited edition prints and t-shirts of the design.
See also a NecronomiCon 2001 cover and some details on the British zine Dagon.
Possibly based on this photo…
19 Monday Jul 2021
Posted in Historical context, Scholarly works
Now being loaded onto Archive.org from microfilm, the U.S. Popular Astronomy journal, 1893-1951.
