Fifteen Years of Hippocampus Press

05 Wednesday Aug 2015

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Shipping now, the new book Fifteen Years of Hippocampus Press: 2000-2015.

iamprovhardbackPicture: A peek into Hippocampus’s hardback of Joshi’s I Am Providence. Photo by Will Hart.

On new Hippocampus books, S.T. Joshi’s blog recently reported that he is making progress on new (revised?) e-book versions for his…

“H.P. Lovecraft: The Decline of the West (Starmont House, 1990), A Subtler Magick: The Writings and Philosophy of H.P. Lovecraft (Starmont House, 1996)”

He also writes…

“we are also planning ebooks of such things as Donald R. Burleson’s H.P. Lovecraft: A Critical Study (Greenwood Press, 1983), Peter Cannon’s H.P. Lovecraft (Twayne, 1989), and perhaps other titles.”

Teaching Tolkien

04 Tuesday Aug 2015

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Waymeet for Tolkien Teachers is a new website / signposting hub for those teaching Tolkien — perhaps alongside Lovecraft, Peake etc. It seems the intention is for the Waymeet to become an open “digital journal” on the topic (see the “submit articles” link on the menu), and as such it may interest readers who teach Tolkien-as-horror (barrow wights, Shelob, tentacled pool-dwellers, Black Riders, Mirkwood spiders etc).

PulpFest 2015

03 Monday Aug 2015

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Pulpfest 2015 has just posted its Lovecraft programme for August 2015. It will include…

* “Jon Arfstrom, perhaps the last living artist who contributed covers to the original run of Weird Tales … will talk about his career with pulp art historian, David Saunders.”

* “The Call of Cthulhu: The Development of Lovecraft’s Mythos” … a panel of Lovecraftian and pulp scholars.

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More new scholarly Lovecraft books

01 Saturday Aug 2015

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More new scholarly print books from Hippocampus Press…

Donald R. Burleson’s Lovecraft: An American Allegory is a new book collection of his essays from the past 40 or so years. It appears to be shipping now.

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* Darkness and Light: Lovecraft’s Impact on My Life

* Thematic Studies

Zen and the Art of Lovecraft
A Note on Lovecraft, Mathematics, and the Outer Spheres
Lovecraft and Chiasmus, Chiasmus and Lovecraft
Lovecraft and the World as Cryptogram
Lovecraft and the Death of Tragedy
Lovecraft and Romanticism
Lovecraft: An American Allegory
Lovecraft and Adjectivitis: A Deconstructionist View
Lovecraft and Chaos
Lovecraft and Interstitiality
Lovecraft and Gender
H.P. Lovecraft: Textual Keys

* Sources and Influences

H.P. Lovecraft: The Hawthorne Influence
Strange High Houses: Lovecraft and Melville
Ambrose Bierce and H.P. Lovecraft
A Note on Lovecraft and Rupert Brooke

* Studies of Individual Tales

Iranon and Kuranes: An Intertextual Gloss
On Lovecraft’s Fragment “Azathoth”
Aporia and Paradox in “The Outsider”
Is Lovecraft’s “Ph’nglui mglw’nafh . . .” a Cryptogram?
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath
The Mythic Hero Archetype in “The Dunwich Horror”
Prismatic Heroes: The Colour out of Dunwich
Humour beneath Horror: Some Sources for “The Dunwich Horror” and “The Whisperer in Darkness”
The Thing: On the Doorstep

* Lovecraft’s Poetry

Lovecraft’s “The Unknown”: A Sort of Runic Rhyme
On Lovecraft’s “Nemesis”
On Lovecraft’s “The Ancient Track”
Scansion Problems in Lovecraft’s “Mirage”
Lovecraft’s Cheshire Cat
Lines of Verse Evoking Close Reading: Acrostics-Formulated Text

Also Lovecraftian Proceedings No. 1, a print collection of the papers read at NecronomiCon 2013, and is set for publication August 2015. I’m unsure if these are verbatim from the conference, or if some have been expanded.

Added to Open Lovecraft

31 Friday Jul 2015

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* Brandon Reynolds (2008), “Slumming in the horror-fantasy ghetto: utopian ideals in the work of H.P. Lovecraft” (Masters dissertation for California State University)

* Gavin Weston et al (2015), Anthropologists in Films: “The Horror! The Horror!”, American Anthropologist, Vol. 117, No. 2, pp. 1–13, June 2015. (Finds 53 films featuring fictional representations of anthropologists, 26 of those being horror films. “We examine the role of anthropologists in these films as experts and mediators for seemingly alien “others” and how this lends itself to frequently heroic depictions”)

* Alexander A. G. Gladwin, Matthew J. Lavin, Daniel M. Look (2015), “Stylometry and Collaborative Authorship: Eddy, Lovecraft, and “The Loved Dead””, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities (Oxford), July 2015.

The lost Smith – Howard letters

30 Thursday Jul 2015

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Bobby Derie muses on the R.E. Howard — Clark Ashton Smith letters, nearly all of which have apparently been lost, and asks: what form did the correspondence take?

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See also Leo Grin’s 2005 essay “Howard in the Letters of Clark Ashton Smith”.

Artwork: detail from the cover illustration for Bobby Derie’s 2014 The Collected Letters of Robert E. Howard – Index and Addenda.