Rhode Island History contents list

17 Friday Oct 2014

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A handy single searchable PDF with the complete tables-of-contents for Rhode Island History journal, January 1942 through Fall 2007. All rather dry of Lovecraft interest, apart from the late 1970s when there are a few possibly interesting articles such as “The Ku Klux Klan in Rhode Island”, and “Sea Captains Carousing in Surinam,” by Robert W. Kenny. Kenny being the young 18th Century literature specialist at Brown, who was the initial source of Brobst’s information that Lovecraft was once spotted working as a cinema ticket-seller. (Thanks to Ken Faig for the Kenny-Brobst information, though I was the one who discovered that Kenny was an 18th Century literature specialist).

Marblehead lecture on Lovecraft

16 Thursday Oct 2014

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The incipient “H.P. Lovecraft was Here! Come unto us, ye tourist hordes!” trend gathers a little more pace, as Marblehead gets in on the action with a forthcoming public lecture…

The lecture will take up Lovecraft’s obsession with Marblehead and St. Michael’s, their importance to his macabre and influential writings, and controversies about fact and fantasy in Lovecraft’s literary landscapes.

Providence, pocket universe

12 Sunday Oct 2014

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Lovecraft is deftly name-checked in the opening of the nicely-designed main booklet that welcomes new graduate students to Providence…

A long time ago, the writers Edgar Allen Poe and H.P. Lovecraft wrote of strange surreal realms hidden from common eyes. It was in the nooks and crannies of Providence that they experienced other universes, stranger and more fantastic than our own. While I am not a superstitious man, I find that this place is its own pocket universe, its population of geniuses focusing great energy into strange and fantastic projects. Being here is a unique experience, and I hope you explore all it has to offer.

imagined landscapes: six Lovecraftian elsewhere

10 Friday Oct 2014

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The UCLA Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra is to premiere the Grammy-nominated imagined landscapes: six Lovecraftian elsewhere on the West Coast, on 19th April 2015. It will be paired with Mozart’s “Jupiter”…

Joseph Hallman’s imagined landscapes: six Lovecraftian elsewhere [will be performed by] Armenian cellist Narek Hakhnazaryn, who won the prestigious Tchaikovsky International Competition in 2011.

lovecraft_zann_webPicture: Zach Erdmann