12 Thursday Feb 2015
Posted in Scholarly works
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)
11 Wednesday Feb 2015
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
11 Wednesday Feb 2015
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
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]
08 Sunday Feb 2015
Posted in Odd scratchings
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.
05 Thursday Feb 2015
Posted in Scholarly works
* Dale A. Crowley (2015), “The Arcane and The Rational: Lovecraft’s development of a unique mythos”, Discussions : undergraduate research journal of CWRU, Vol. 11, No. 1, 2015.
01 Sunday Feb 2015
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
Lovely evocation of the craft of making a monster comic using traditional pen-&-ink. Sadly I’m not sure where / whose photo this is…
01 Sunday Feb 2015
Posted in Podcasts etc.
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.
01 Sunday Feb 2015
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, NecronomiCon 2015
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”
01 Sunday Feb 2015
Posted in Scholarly works
* 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)
01 Sunday Feb 2015
Posted in Scholarly works
Short essay on Erich Zann as part of a book about music from 1995…
31 Saturday Jan 2015
Posted in NecronomiCon 2015, Odd scratchings
Not Lovecraft, but some readers may be interested to hear of the popular culture Arcade Expo. 750 pinball machines, free to play for 3,000 convention attendees. It’s been and gone for 2015, but looks set to be back next year.
I wonder if something like a good pay-to-play digital Lovecraft pinball table, or three, might raise some cash for a local cats’ charity at NecronomiCon 2015? Someone would have to design the tables though, by re-skinning old public-domain classics, as I know of no Lovecraft themed tables.
30 Friday Jan 2015
Posted in Historical context
I took a quick look at the mysterious Weird Tales author of 1933-1937…
MEARLE PROUT.
The only genealogical candidate I could find was a Mearle Wilson Prout (1911-1964) from Texas. He was exactly the right age to have written the Prout stories, from circa age 21 to 25. Update: “Stillwater, Oklahoma” is his address in a letter to Weird Tales in 1937. Genealogy date adds: “Home in 1940: Medford, Grant, Oklahoma”.
* “The House of the Worm”, debut short story, Weird Tales for October 1933.
* “Masquerade”, short story, Weird Tales for February 1937. (Translated into French as “Le Carnaval de l’horreur”)
* “Guarded”, short story, Weird Tales for March 1938.
* Letter in Weird Tales for May, Aug 1937.
* Letter in “Discussions” column in Amazing Stories “while [the title was] under Gernsback’s control”.
