10 Saturday Jan 2015
Posted in Odd scratchings
Sad to hear that the film actor Rod Taylor has passed away. He had his breakthrough as The Time Traveller in one of my favourite movies, the 1960 George Pal adaptation of Wells’s “The Time Machine”.
Maker of the famous movie, George Pal, at the same controls…
10 Saturday Jan 2015
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
IlluXCon, a fantastic art convention, 21st–25th October 2015 in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
10 Saturday Jan 2015
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, NecronomiCon 2015, Scholarly works
Pulpfest 2015 in Columbus, Ohio from 13th-16th August 2015. Pulpfest 2015 has announced a “H.P. Lovecraft and Weird Tales” theme for 2015. Pulpfest 2015 thus segways rather neatly with NecronomiCon in Providence on 20th-23th August 2015, making for a potential two-week Lovecraft love-in. Three weeks, even, if one were to stay on in Providence to peruse some of the rare treasures of the Lovecraft collection at the John Hay Library and visit some of Lovecraft’s places such as Marblehead.
10 Saturday Jan 2015
Posted in Podcasts etc., REH
Pulp Crazy sneaks into the Tower of the Time and emerges, persued by Giant Apes, clutching a “Conan and The Birth of Sword & Sorcery” panel recording snatched from the jaws of PulpFest 2012…
Rusty Burke, Don Herron, Brian Leno, and John D. Squires discuss the contributions of Robert E. Howard and Conan The Cimmerian to the birth of Sword & Sorcery. Some great overall Robert E. Howard discussion as well.”
08 Thursday Jan 2015
Posted in Odd scratchings
New year, new blog. 2020: Tracking Optimism will track and comment on important expressions of rational optimism. I’ve pump-primed it with a week of posts, and now it’ll just be an ‘occasional’ blog with postings as I happen to find stuff worth talking about.
08 Thursday Jan 2015
Available on Amazon now, The Collected Letters of Robert E. Howard : Index and Addenda
Volume One is SOLD OUT; Volumes two and three are still available.
Hopefully there will be a paperback edition in print-on-demand at some point, but the Index‘s author Bobby Derie doesn’t know of any plans for one.
06 Tuesday Jan 2015
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
Should you be huddling in Huddersfield, England, this coming Friday…
Friday, January 9, brings something quite different to the Square Chapel audience – an atmospheric evening of horror and fantasy presented by Michael Sabbaton. His one-man show, The Temple, is based on H.P. Lovecraft’s undersea tale of possession and madness and tells the tale of what happens when a strange ivory, carved head comes into the possession of a submarine commander… The show starts at 8pm.”
05 Monday Jan 2015
Posted in Unnamable
Thanks to Horace Smith, who notes that there’s a five-page article on Lovecraft in the February 2015 issue of Sky & Telescope magazine, which is already out. “Cosmic Dread, the astronomy of H.P. Lovecraft” is by John Franch & Alan MacRobert.
04 Sunday Jan 2015
Posted in Scholarly works
First International Colin Wilson Conference, 1st July 2016. Nottingham, UK.
03 Saturday Jan 2015
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
If Lovecraft had been filmed in the 1960s… the “Arkham Angst” poster-collage series by weißweißweiß in Germany.
02 Friday Jan 2015
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
3dmotive has a new paid video tutorial course. Sculpting Cthulhu using the popular Zbrush 3d digital sculpting software…
02 Friday Jan 2015
Posted in Historical context, Odd scratchings
Via the Studi Lovecraftiani guys in Italy, snagged on Facebook. Pictures of a Lovecraft-revised and commented typescript of “The Summons” by Barlow…
