23 Tuesday Sep 2014
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
“Whispers in the Darkness” (2010) by Gato-Chico. Photoshop and stock. With some suitably refined typography and some cropping at the top and bottom, this would make someone a fine book cover.
23 Tuesday Sep 2014
Posted in New books, Scholarly works
Newly arrived on Amazon, the revised paperback of A Look Behind the Derleth Mythos: Origins of the Cthulhu Mythos
dropping much of the academic apparatus he had in the hardback version — page numbers for quotes in the text and all that needless crap
So I suppose the first edition is still the one that scholars will want, errors and all, since at least it has the “needless crap” that means that all the quotes can actually be tracked back to a source page. Do any readers know if Haefele ever issued erratum pages for his first edition?
22 Monday Sep 2014
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
Lovecraftian filmic weirdness over in California, 26th-28th September, with the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival.
21 Sunday Sep 2014
Posted in Scholarly works
Some academic conferences already announced for 2015, of relevance to H.P. Lovecraft…
* Gothic Spaces: Boundaries, Mergence, Liminalities, 21st-22nd January 2015, Sydney, Australia.
“the meaning and impact of Gothic spaces not only in aesthetic terms, but also the physical, psychological, and the cultural”
* Monstrous Geographies: places and spaces of monstrosity, 22nd-24th March 2015, Lisbon, Portugal.
“the relationship between the monstrous and the geographic”
* 2nd Global Conference on Letters and Letter Writing, 22nd-24th March 2015, Lisbon, Portugal.
Very broad, seems to be open to anything on letters and correspondence circles.
* “The Once and Future Antiquity: Classical Traditions in Science Fiction and Fantasy” conference, Seattle, 27th-29th March 2015.
“What roles has classical antiquity played in visions of the future, the fantastic, the speculative, the might-have-been?”
* Enchanted Edwardians, 30th-31st March 2015, Bristol, England.
“…the ways in which the [British] Edwardians understood and employed the idea of the enchanted, the haunted and the supernatural.”
* Local Color Outside the Lines: American Literary Regionalism’s ‘Others’ (Northeast Modern Literature Assoc.), 30th April 2015, Toronto, Canada.
“This panel seeks papers that address [USA] literary regionalism’s ‘others’ construed narrowly or broadly”.
21 Sunday Sep 2014
Posted in New books, Scholarly works
Lovecraft Annual No. 8, 2014 looks about ready to ship, complete with a fab…
Pugmire Pink, [cover which] is dedicated to our steadfast friend W.H. Pugmire.
20 Saturday Sep 2014
Posted in Scholarly works
Franz Rottensteiner’s “Lovecraft as Philosopher” a dismissive review of S.T. Joshi’s The Decline of the West in Science Fiction Studies, March 1992. And Joshi’s lengthy demolition of the review in the November 1992 issue. Followed by slight whimpering noises from Rottensteiner.
19 Friday Sep 2014
Posted in Odd scratchings
“The healthiest aristocracy is the most elastic — willing to beckon and receive as accessions all men of whatever antecedents who prove themselves aesthetically and intellectually fitted for membership. It gains, moreover, if its members can possess that natural nobility which is content with a recognition of its own worth, and which demonstrates its superiority in superior works and behaviour, rather than in snobbish and arrogant speech and attitude.” — H.P. Lovecraft, October 1921.
19 Friday Sep 2014
Posted in Historical context, Scholarly works
New survey PhD online, Aerofuturism: Vectors of Modernity in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture (2014). Some fleeting references to At The Mountains of Madness.
19 Friday Sep 2014
Posted in Odd scratchings
Enter… the Lovecraftorium. Beware lest you empty your mind wallet, as it provokes you to insanely jealous cultist frenzy on Amazon!
19 Friday Sep 2014
Posted in Scholarly works
“The Once and Future Antiquity: Classical Traditions in Science Fiction and Fantasy” conference, Seattle, 27th-29th March 2015.
“What roles has classical antiquity played in visions of the future, the fantastic, the speculative, the might-have-been?”
Given Lovecraft’s abundant uses of classical antiquity in his fiction and poetry, I’d be surprised if the organisers can’t squeeze in at least one Lovecraft paper.
18 Thursday Sep 2014
Posted in Odd scratchings
Ah yes, the kids of today: no energy, no hope, no talent, and they dress funny too… 🙂
“… our languid youth to gloom resort,
and listless children must be taught their sport:
whose arts the stamp of waning pow’r confess,
and hide their weakness in eccentric dress;”
H.P. Lovecraft, from “Old Christmas”, written at the end of 1917.
18 Thursday Sep 2014
Posted in Scholarly works
* Don Jolly (2013), “Religion in H.P. Lovecraft”, The Revealer: a review of religion and media, 21st August 2013. (Short essay exploring the young Lovecraft’s sentiment for religious experience in the context of historical community, specifically the late 1917 poem “Old Christmas”).