18 Tuesday Sep 2018
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
The complete “Typescripts for Volumes Four and Five” of the Selected Letters of H. P. Lovecraft are currently up for sale. As typed for Arkham House, from the originals, by Wandrei…
There’s also currently a complete set of the published volumes on Abebooks, for just $400…
17 Monday Sep 2018
Posted in Odd scratchings
Cover for Mark Reinsberg’s Ad Astra fanzine, January 1940, by Julian S. Krupa. Newly colourised.
Julian S. Krupa (b. 1913) was an American illustrator from a Polish family. He trained at the Bauhaus in Germany, but left for America with his family. There he produced a science-fiction “serial illustration” titled Adventures of Richard Arnold / Przygody Ryszarda Arnolda which appeared in a Polish newspaper. He worked with the Ziff Davis Publishing Company from 1938, and had a good deal of artwork in Amazing Stories circa 1939. He also contributed to Ad Astra and probably other fanzines. He served in the Marines during the Second World War. In 1946 he was noted in the press as having the “JSK Recording Studio” in his basement at home. His grandson has left a short memoir of him which reveals he was also a talented violinist, performed at a World Fair, and did a radio show from his basement. After the war he worked for a company that made illustrations for training films used by the Navy and NASA. He later moved into doing marketing work for Radio Shack’s audio equipment, before retiring.
17 Monday Sep 2018
Posted in Unnamable
Free on Archive.org, Mike Ashley’s overview book The Time Machines : The Story of the Science Fiction Pulp Magazines from the Beginning to 1950 (2000, University of Liverpool Press). I assume the University of Liverpool Press have unlatched it via the ‘Knowledge Unlatched’ programme. Amazon USA wants amazingly high prices for it in print, though Amazon UK has more reasonable prices.
There’s also a follow-on book for the 1950-1970 period.
16 Sunday Sep 2018
Posted in New books, Scholarly works
Crypt of Cthulhu 111 (Michaelmas 2018) is now on pre-order.
Contents:
Disturbing and Disquieting Editorial Shards by Robert M. Price.
Sadiva’s Lover by Gary Myers.
The Many Worlds of Clark Ashton Smith by Scott Connors.
Asperger Syndrome in R. H. Barlow’s “The Summons” by Charles D. O’Connor III.
Through the Gates of the Prepositional Phrase by Donald R. Burleson.
H. P. Lovecraft and the American Stonehenge: Hokum, Pseudo-archaeology, & the Imagination by Darrell Schweitzer.
The Muddle in High Street by Timothy Burall.
Maal Dweb of Xiccarpth by Will Murray.
R’lyeh Reviews.
Mail Call of Cthulhu.
Poems by Randall D. Larson and Charles Lovecraft.
16 Sunday Sep 2018
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
‘A drawing by CAS’, Acolyte fanzine, Fall 1944. Reproduced on a stencil duplicator.
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.
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.
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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.”
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.
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.
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…
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.