Added to Open Lovecraft

* John Conway (2012), “Monstrous Labyrinths: Hellish Prisons, Liberated Language“, in proceedings of the conference Monsters and the Monstrous: Monstrous Spaces. (Lovecraft’s use of the labyrinthine in “At the Mountain of Madness”)

* Ardila Rodriguez and Miguel Angel (2009), El horror cosmico de H.P. Lovecraft: una corriente estetica en la literatura de horror contemporanea. (In Spanish)

* Dora Nunes Gago (2013), “Representacoes das cidades em ruinas de H.P. Lovecraft”, Mathesis, 22, 2013, pp.67-84. (In Spanish. Discusses ruins in Lovecraft’s fiction)

* Wojciech Kalinowski (2013), “Nowelistyka Stefana Grabinskiego: genologia, estetyka, wizja czlowieka i swiata”. (In Polish. ‘The author Stefan Grabinski: his influences, aesthetics, his vision of man and of the world’. Appears to contain extensive comparison with Lovecraft)

Scholarly works from the 1980s and 90s

Outside the date range for Open Lovecraft, but freely available online and noted here…

* M.G. Kutrieh (1988), “H.P. Lovecraft’s quest for harmony”, Bulletin of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. Quatar University, 1988.

* Rene Galand (1999), “The Wounded Ego of Howard Phillips Lovecraft”, French Faculty Scholarship, Paper 12.

* D.A. Oakes (1992), “The Realistic Fantasy: the creation of a new literary genre in the works of H.P. Lovecraft” (Masters thesis)

Roy Magnuson

Roy Magnuson of Illinois State University released a new musical work amid the bustle of Christmas 2014, which I missed the news of until his university noted it today. “Innsmouth, Massachusetts – 1927” is on the Naxos CD label. The music, inspired by H.P. Lovecraft of course, was recorded by the Illinois State University Wind Symphony with Dan Belongia conducting. Hear it on Soundcloud or watch a live performance of it on YouTube…

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZFXzd_TpEc?rel=0&w=560&h=315]

Friends of Ol’ Marvel

A new fledgling comics fandom online library. In the…

“pilot project, Tilley, La Barre, and Walsh will build a digital archive of materials related to comic book readership and fandom, focusing initially on materials collected from Marvel Comics publications from 1961-1973.”

So it’s sounds like they’re going to start from the Bullpen pages and FOOM and work outwards. Anyone with an especially good comics fandom collection from that period might want to contact them.

Man-Thing_1_(1974)

Robert M. Price interview

Robert M. Price has a long interview on the January 2015 edition of End of Days Radio podcast. Discussed from 45 minutes onward are: his Human Bible and Bible Geek shows | Price’s biog & howling demons | Lovecraft and movies | del Toro, Godzilla. Then he veers off into a long account of Gnosticism, and ends up at the end in The Bible and creation stories and the sources for the movie of Noah. Warning: the .mp3 is 220Mb.

NecronomiCon games wanted

Game masters wanted for NecronomiCon Providence 2015

We’re happy to announce that most of the gaming we’re planning for NecronomiCon Providence 2015 will take place in far more spacious and comfortable accommodations at the Omni Hotel … For those of you who wish to run a game at Necronomicon whether it is a table top RPG, LARP, or board/card game please download and submit this information form … Also any suggestions or recommendations for games you wish to see at Necronomicon feel free to email us with the subject GAME IDEAS”

Added to Open Lovecraft

* Jeff Lacy & Steven J. Zani (2007), “The Negative Mystics of the Mechanistic Sublime: Walter Benjamin and Lovecraft’s Cosmicism”, Lovecraft Annual No.1, pp. 65-83.

* James Machin (2015), “Fellows Find: H.P. Lovecraft letter sheds light on pivotal moment in his career”, Cultural Compass, the scholarly blog of the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, 28th January 2015. (An account of finding a new and unknown 5,000 word letter by Lovecraft during archival research in the Ransom Center. The full text of the important 1924 letter is given as readable scans. The letter reveals Lovecraft’s initial ideas for shaping his planned novel Azathoth and the plot of the opening section of his apparently already plotted novel The House of the Worm).

* Chris J. Karr (2007, 2014), “The Black Seas of Copyright”, Chris J. Karr’s blog, 2014. (Updated 2014 edition of a collection of scholarly footnoted essays, on the topic of Lovecraft’s copyrights and the later Arkham House claims to these. Titles for sub-sections include: Lovecraft’s Fiction; Arkham House Publishers and the H.P. Lovecraft Copyrights; The Arkham House Copyright Hypothesis; The “Donald Wandrei v. The Estate of August Derleth” Hypothesis; Observations; and Conclusion)