13 Sunday Jul 2014
Posted in Historical context, New discoveries
This essay has been replaced by the greatly expanded essay in my new book of revised, expanded, and footnoted versions of my recent Tentaclii essays, Lovecraft in Historical Context: fifth collection.
12 Saturday Jul 2014
Posted in New books
New edition of S.T. Joshi’s The Rise and Fall of the Cthulhu Mythos, set for 2015…
Upon my return [from the Dunsany castle in Ireland], I hope to undertake extensive work on my revised edition of The Rise and Fall of the Cthulhu Mythos (Mythos Books, 2008), which will be retitled The Rise, Fall, and Rise of the Cthulhu Mythos. This new edition should appear next year from Hippocampus Press. It will be difficult to incorporate discussions of all the new Mythos writing that has appeared over the last decade or so, so I will restrict myself to some of the more noteworthy items; I will also revise earlier parts of the text where needed. The book could well be substantially larger than the original edition.
11 Friday Jul 2014
Posted in Historical context, Scholarly works
I’m again very pleased that the legendary Lovecraft researcher Randy Everts has chosen Tentaclii to help publish another essay on Lovecraft’s unknown or little known friendships. With his permission I have slightly tweaked the text, formatted it with my usual book style, and added my footnotes. My thanks to Randy for this great opportunity.
Download: Randy Everts, “Unknown Friends of H. P. Lovecraft: No.3, David Horn Whitter”. (PDF, formatted for 6″ x 9″ booklet printing).
10 Thursday Jul 2014
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
10 Thursday Jul 2014
Posted in Scholarly works
The Arkham Gazette is calling for article writers…
* A write-up of [the Lovecraft fragment] “Of Evill Sorceries Done in New-England of Daemons in no Human Shape” [found in Collected Essays V]
* Alchemy in New England [a vast subject, very active in terms of recent scholarship].
* A [linguistic and folkloric] discussion of what colonial witches might call various Mythos beings.
* New England folklore about witches.
10 Thursday Jul 2014
Posted in Historical context, Scholarly works
I’m very pleased that the legendary Lovecraft researcher Randy Everts has chosen Tentaclii to help publish another document on Lovecraft’s unknown or little known friendships. This publishes, for the first time, a letter about Lovecraft from Woodburn Harris.
With his permission I have slightly tweaked the text, formatted it with my usual book style, and added my footnotes plus an extra picture. My thanks to Randy for this great opportunity.
Download: Randy Everts, “Unknown Friends of H. P. Lovecraft: No.2, Woodburn Prescott Harris”. (PDF, formatted for 6″ x 9″ booklet printing)
10 Thursday Jul 2014
Posted in New books, Scholarly works
Hippocampus Press are apparently gearing up to publish peer-reviewed Selected Proceedings of the Lovecraft research presented at the Emerging Scholarship Symposium, as part of the NecronomiCon Providence 2013. Probably needs a snappier title than that. How about: “Precocious youth of known genius”: emerging scholarship from NecronomiCon 2013.
09 Wednesday Jul 2014
Posted in Scholarly works
* Francesco Levato (2014), “Semi-peripheral : spaces of deviation, abjection, madness”, New Academia, Vol.3 No.1, January 2014. (A ‘performative writing’ text, blending fragments of critical theory with bits from “The Call of Cthulhu”)
* Anthony Conrad Chieffalo (2011), “Poe, Lovecraft, and the uncanny: the horror of the self” (Masters dissertation for Central Connecticut State University. Uses Freud to suggest that Poe and Lovecraft draw on… “internal confrontations between the protagonists and the formerly concealed aspects of themselves” to make their stories into powerful horror).
09 Wednesday Jul 2014
Posted in New books
An entertaining essay-by-essay fisking of New Critical Essays on H.P. Lovecraft (2013), an expensive book aimed at academic libraries and the shelves of tenured academics.
By the time Simmons [the editor] mentions Donald Tyson’s The Dream World of H.P. Lovecraft as “an interesting biographical reading of Lovecraft’s writing” alarm bells were going off in my head.
“half of them [the essay writers] really haven’t even done the proper research”
09 Wednesday Jul 2014
Posted in New books
Encyclopaedia of ancient Egyptian demons, coming soon(ish) from the UK, via a “Leverhulme Trust grant worth £158,000”. The organisers say that… “no such resource currently exists”. Hopefully the finished work will be open access.
Interesting to learn about the ancient world’s tradition of “dream-sending” which was apparently strongest in Ancient Egypt, where almost every book of magic has spells and suchlike for doing so. Possibly relevant to Lovecraft’s idea for the “dream-calling” of Cthulhu.
“Luven-Kerapht, High-Priest of Bastet”, by Richard Svensson.
09 Wednesday Jul 2014
Posted in Scholarly works
Possibly useful, for some. A keyword search facility for the first edition of The Ancient Track (Lovecraft’s collected poems). Though it doesn’t even give you snippets in the search results, just page numbers where the keyword occurs.
09 Wednesday Jul 2014
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
Del Toro has told the Wall Street Journal that his At The Mountains of Madness mega-budget movie adaptation could be revived at Legendary Pictures. He’s now willing to concede on the need to make it as a PG-13 movie [Meaning: Parents Strongly Cautioned that it may be unsuitable for those under 13: but all ages admitted].
“I’ve seen PG-13 become more and more flexible, I think I could do it PG-13 now, so I’m going to explore it with [Legendary], to be as horrifying as I can, but to not be quite as graphic.”
Which sounds like it would be even more Lovecraftian. Nice.
