‘A drawing by CAS’, Acolyte fanzine, Fall 1944. Reproduced on a stencil duplicator.
A drawing by CAS
16 Sunday Sep 2018
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
Out of the Forrest
16 Sunday Sep 2018
Posted in Odd scratchings
In a 1947 first draft, Forrest J. Ackerman makes a first try at ordering ‘The Top 10 Works of H.P. Lovecraft’. Kadath is switched up to No. 3, at the last moment.
Robert Aickman documentary
15 Saturday Sep 2018
Posted in Podcasts etc.
A 53-minute documentary on Robert Aickman (1914-1981) who was a well-regarded British author of weird tales and, like Lovecraft, a conservation pioneer. Successfully so, in his case. As he championed the enduring British restoration of our narrowboat canal network, which now provides so much to boaters, walkers and cyclists alike.
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-FyIYMEFjE?rel=0&w=560&h=315]
Robert E. Howard – Remaining Weird Tales and Esoterica
15 Saturday Sep 2018
Robert E. Howard, Pictures in the Fire: Remaining Weird Tales and Esoterica. 452 pages, as a 200-copy limited edition hardback. Released in May 2018, it appears to still be available.
“This volume collects the remaining weird fiction, as well as various other items that have not previously been published by either Del Rey or REHFP. All stories and poetry have been restored to the original text, where available. A large number of works in this volume will be making their debut in a mass market publication, including many first referenced in Glenn Lord’s The Last Celt more than 40 years ago.”
Mihail Bila – Lovecraft concept art
15 Saturday Sep 2018
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
McRassusArt (Mihail Bila, UK) has made a fine selection of Lovecraft concept art…
Lovecraft’s Providence (as he dreamed it).
“He” (old New York City).
The Strange High House in the Mist.
OPERATIVA Lovecraft
15 Saturday Sep 2018
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
“Our entire Rome gallery has been transformed into the surreal living room of Mr. H.P. Lovecraft (1890-1937), and is imbued with his dreamy and disquieting atmospheres. The walls of Operativa have also become animated pages “torn” from painting and sculpture related to the master’s dreamlike narratives and fantastical horrors, intended to evoke the indifferent and indecipherable cosmos for the wandering being called man. An unprecedented, courageous, and fascinating exhibition project … a selection of works by Joanne Burke, Ennio Calabria, Duilio Cambellotti, Giuseppe Capitano, Fabrizio Clerici, Giovanni Copelli, Michela de Mattei, Cleo Fariselli, Luca Grimaldi, Emiliano Maggi, Marta Mancini, Salvatore Meli, Matteo Nasini, Sergio Ragalzi, Vincenzo Simon.” (Rough translation from the Italian).
At the OPERATIVA in Rome, Italy, September 14th to October 15th 2018.
The website doesn’t have details of the show, not having been updated since July. So here’s a picture on the rather pleasing and somewhat cosmic “MONOLITH / catching spaces” by Edoardo Dionea Cicconi, which was in the Operativa in May 2018.
Friday “picture postals” from Lovecraft: The Ladd Observatory.
14 Friday Sep 2018
Posted in Astronomy, Picture postals
The Ladd Observatory, Providence. Lovecraft began to use it in the late Fall (Autumn) of 1904. Perhaps 20 years after this 1900s picture the building was clad in greenery, which was the architectural fashion in those days…
Playwriting Competition
14 Friday Sep 2018
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
The London Lovecraft Festival also has a New Playwriting Competition, though for UK writers only. Winners will see their work performed by a professional team at the London Lovecraft Festival in 2019. Deadline is midnight on 25th December 2018.
Clark Ashton Smith documentary – the new trailer
13 Thursday Sep 2018
Posted in Films & trailers
A trailer for the forthcoming documentary film “Clark Ashton Smith: The Emperor of Dreams”, which according to Derrick Hussey is set for public release “this fall by Hippocampus Press”, presumably as a DVD.
[vimeo 281911751 w=580 h=326]
The fantastic geology of Verne, Poe and H.P. Lovecraft
12 Wednesday Sep 2018
Posted in Podcasts etc., Scholarly works
“The fantastic geology of Verne, Poe and H.P. Lovecraft” (August 2018) is a new 70-minute video of a talk in Spanish by Dr. Blanca Martinez Garcia. Garcia is a geologist and researcher at the Aranzadi Society of Sciences.
Two new Joshi books
11 Tuesday Sep 2018
Posted in New books, Scholarly works
A new blog post from S. T. Joshi, which reveals a major new book…
David E. Schultz and I are close to completing work on a comprehensive volume of memoirs of Lovecraft, under the title Ave atque Vale: Reminiscences of H. P. Lovecraft. This will be a new publication by Necronomicon Press.”
It promises to be more comprehensive than 1998’s Lovecraft Remembered, and will be annotated…
“and we have annotated the individual items to correct errors and provide other useful information”.
Joshi also plans to self-publish a book of essays titled The Development of the Weird Tale, with some new essays. Of the titles, “Samuel Loveman: Shelley in Brooklyn” (previously in a booklet on weird poetry) sounds rather interesting to Lovecraft scholars, as does the end multi-essay section “Lovecraft and Some Lost Classics of the Supernatural”.
Gregory Amenoff
11 Tuesday Sep 2018
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
The Rhode Island School of Design (RSID) Museum Collection catalogue is now online. A blank search shows they currently have 12,903 item records online which also have images on them. No results for “Lovecraft”, and almost no local photography or scenes. Not a single “cat” either, which is surprising in so large a collection. Some “Roman” and “Egyptian” items, which we can probably assume Lovecraft once saw, but nothing that seems of interest in relation to his work.
But I did stumble on their record for Gregory Amenoff‘s wonderful “The Starry Floor” (1994).
They only have the one picture by him, but looking at images of his other work from the 1990s and 2000s, I’d say he’s definitely worth a look if you collect Lovecraftian art.
