28 Monday Jan 2019
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
A blog new to me, Moebius Odyssey – A space to meditate on the art of Moebius. On Moebius and his legacy. Includes French style 1970s/80s arty erotica, so it’s ‘not safe for work or school’.
28 Monday Jan 2019
Posted in Housekeeping
28 Monday Jan 2019
Posted in Historical context, New books, REH, Scholarly works
One book I seem to have unintentionally overlooked, in my blog’s rolling survey of such in Sept/Oct of last year, is Robert E. Howard: A Literary Biography (Oct 2018). The new book is intended as a reliable and well-written introductory biography for those new to Howard and his work, and who are not historians. It weighs in at 250 pages as a trade paperback or budget Kindle ebook. There’s a foreword by Rusty Burke, who praises the author and notes that the text was peer reviewed by Howard scholars. Howard’s fiction is stepped through in chronological sequence, with judicious plot summaries. Lovecraft and the backroom editorial matters at Weird Tales are covered adequately. The ‘deep background’ on Howard’s family history and early childhood is briefly surveyed in only a few pages, as this material can now be found elsewhere in good form.
28 Monday Jan 2019
Posted in New books, Scholarly works
S. T. Joshi has a new blog post, which usefully pins down the differences between the forthcoming-soon book Ave atque Vale: Reminiscences of H. P. Lovecraft and 1998’s Lovecraft Remembered…
“we have included most of the material in that [1998] volume (some items were omitted for copyright issues; others for editorial reasons) and included several newly discovered memoirs not included in Peter’s volume.”
Right, so it sounds like the Lovecraft scholar would still need both. The new book will be a $30 trade paperback, Joshi states, as well as a hardback.
Should one be considering sampling some of Dunsany’s vast output, on whom Joshi is also the expert, he usefully notes…
“Darrell Schweitzer’s “How Much of Dunsany Is Worth Reading?” (first published in Studies in Weird Fiction, Fall 1991)”
This has been reprinted in the new The Green Book: Writings on Irish Gothic, Supernatural and Fantastic Literature (#11, 2018). It can also be found in Schweitzer’s essay collection Windows of the Imagination: Essays on Fantastic Literature.
27 Sunday Jan 2019
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, New books
The latest issue of the weird poetry journal Spectral Realms is out, with fine cover design and art by Kim Bo Yung (art) and Dan Sauer (design). This issue “includes an index to the first ten issues of Spectral Realms.”.
There’s also an offer to get two back issues of your choice for $15, albeit with shipping on top.
26 Saturday Jan 2019
Posted in Odd scratchings, REH
A new post from The Blog That Time Forgot, “The People of the Heather: Robert E. Howard and Scotland”. Howard’s early love of Scotland is briefly surveyed, and a hypothetical ‘Scottish Howard’ book collection is listed.
26 Saturday Jan 2019
Posted in Odd scratchings
Selling at PulpFest 2019, the official blog post telling potential sellers and dealers exactly what they get and when. This year there seems potential for selling items from beyond the pulps themselves…
We’ll be exploring the profound effect of the pulps on popular culture across the globe at this year’s PulpFest. The fiction and art of the pulps reverberated through a wide variety of mediums — comic books, movies, paperbacks and genre fiction, television, men’s adventure magazines, radio drama, and even video, anime, and role-playing games. Please join us at PulpFest 2019 for “Children of the Pulps and Other Stories.”
25 Friday Jan 2019
Posted in Historical context, Picture postals
The typical letter-carrier (in British parlance, ‘the postman’, in American ‘the mail-man’) of the 1900s, delivering the mail to houses.
One almost wonders if, at times, Lovecraft even had his own personal letter-carrier to haul up the hill his daily load of correspondence, subscription magazines and amateur journals, and occasional books. No doubt his aunts also had their share of correspondence and packages.
24 Thursday Jan 2019
Posted in 3D, Housekeeping, Odd scratchings
I’m pleased to say that I’ve regained jurn. org after a hiatus — and thus the main Web page for my JURN open access search-tool returns, as does my Poser and Daz Studio 3D creativity blog.
24 Thursday Jan 2019
Posted in Films & trailers, Lovecraftian arts
It’s official. SpectreVision has announced the leading actor Nicolas Cage will be starring in a big budget movie adaptation of Lovecraft’s “The Colour out of Space”. The film’s director will be Richard Stanley. He hasn’t directed a feature film since the early 90s (Dust Devil) after becoming entangled in a studio-doomed Island of Doctor Moreau reboot and falling out of features. But he has done documentaries, such as The Secret Glory (Nazi Grail hunting) and The White Darkness (Haitian voodoo) and The Otherworld (modern-day paranormal investigators in Cathar France). Principal photography on Colour is said to be starting next month, and the press-release lists a large phalanx of Producers who’ll keep the production on track. I don’t recognise any of the other actor names, apart from Cage, but it’s obviously going to be a quality production.
24 Thursday Jan 2019
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
British comics artist Tammy Nicholls has a dedicated blog for a new graphic novel sequel to Innsmouth, “The Burning of Innsmouth”. There’s a free sampler pamphlet-issue, but it’s behind a sign-up form. Still, the visual preview of just two pages looks stylish and well-made.
23 Wednesday Jan 2019
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
A thoughtful new short survey of Poe in the comics, “Edgar Allan Poe: Immortality Is But Ubiquity in Time”. Though in its opening paragraphs, in seeming to follow only the elite academic sentiment on ‘reputation’, it overlooks the huge popular grassroots upswell of interest across America. I’m no expert on Poe, but from reading around Lovecraft I get the impression that Poe was hugely popular at the grassroots from roughly 1909 to 1929, after which many tastes changed and interest was dampened by the onset of the Great Depression.
The same comics blog has an amusing “Tentacle Tuesday” feature-post, in which tentacles from long-gone comics are on display. It’s worth plugging into your RSS news reader, though be warned that some pictures are “Not Safe for Work” in terms of nudity and tentacular probing / politically correctness.
