27 Friday Dec 2013
Posted in New books
Del Toro’s new book Guillermo del Toro Cabinet of Curiosities: My Notebooks, Collections, and Other Obsessions
“it also includes pictures of Bleak House, where del Toro works and stores hundreds of artworks, figurines and props. … Most disconcertingly, a lifelike full-size sculpture of H. P. Lovecraft stands in a library, angrily looking up from a book as if you’ve interrupted him”
27 Friday Dec 2013
Posted in Scholarly works
* Gretchen Marie Kasting (2013), Without contraries there is no progression : scientific speculation and absence in Frankenstein, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and “The Colour out of Space””. (Masters dissertation, University of Texas at Austin)
* Luciana Moura Colucci de Camargo (2013), “Presenca da tradicao da espacialidade gotica nos contos The Tapestried Chambre e The Dreams in the Witch House”, Anais do Silel, Volume 3, Number 1, 2013. (In Spanish. Compares the use of domestic space in Sir Walter Scott’s “The Tapestried Chamber” with Lovecraft’s “Dreams in the Witch House”)
* Luis Vieira (2013), “Historicidade e temporalidade na literatura de horror de Lovecraft”, Epigrafe edition zero, 2013. (In Spanish. “The Call of Cthulhu” as a historical document relating to the literary avant-garde of the mid 1920s)
20 Friday Dec 2013
Posted in Odd scratchings
Santa may not be able to land on Robert M. Price’s roof this Christmas! He’s started a crowdfunding campaign for urgent home repairs, and would appreciate a small pledge.
19 Thursday Dec 2013
Posted in Odd scratchings
“The Cats of Ulthar”, the Xmas tree…
18 Wednesday Dec 2013
Posted in Odd scratchings
17 Tuesday Dec 2013
Posted in Historical context, Podcasts etc.
Arkham Insiders podcast, the new German language podcast on Lovecraft, looks at Lovecraft and the Munsey magazines, 1908-1913.
16 Monday Dec 2013
Posted in Podcasts etc., REH
A new podcast interview with Mark Finn, author of the book Blood and Thunder: The Life and Art of Robert E. Howard
15 Sunday Dec 2013
Posted in Scholarly works
Added to the Open Lovecraft page on this blog:
* Jean-Emmanuel Filet (2013), Du Livre des Songes au Livre des Ages: recherches, creations sur le reve et la temporalite par la composition de deux corpus musicaux. (Part of a thesis. In French with English abstract. Description of the work undertaken for the chamber opera H.P.L. Outsider, based on H.P Lovecraft, which was the principal focus of the author’s doctoral degree).
* Erika L. Mutter (2013), Explaining the Unexplainable: a new cultural outlook on H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos (Possibly a Masters dissertation? Looks at narrator identification with aliens).
* Juan Luis Perez de Luque (2013), Communal Decay: narratological and ideological analysis of H.P. Lovecraft’s fiction (Thesis. Partly also published in English in Lovecraft Annual 2013, as “Lovecraft, Reality, and the Real: A Zizekian Approach”).
15 Sunday Dec 2013
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
Director Huan Vu’s movie Die Farbe (2010, based on “The Color Out Of Space”) was well reviewed. Now he’s back, with The Dreamlands. The new movie will be freely adapted from Lovecraft’s various Dreamlands stories. Here’s a teaser video, which appears to be inspired by “The Strange High House in the Mist”, but perhaps with a slight touch of the studio from “Pickman’s Model” (Pickman, you’ll remember, later becomes a ghoul in the Dreamlands)…
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A crowdfunding campign is being launched 1st March 2014.
14 Saturday Dec 2013
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, Odd scratchings
A million medium-res scans of 19th century pictures, from the British Library. Too fuzzy and small for print, but fine for perking up your blog posts…
11 Wednesday Dec 2013
Posted in Scholarly works
Added to this blog’s Open Lovecraft page:
* Brian J. Reis (2013), “Structurally Cosmic Apostasy: the atheist occult world of H.P. Lovecraft”, LUX : A Journal of Transdisciplinary Writing and Research, Vol 3, No.1, 2013. (On Lovecraft in relation to the Theosophists)
* Chris Laliberte (2013), “The Real In R’lyeh: on Lacan and Lovecraft”, with caffeine & careful thought, Vol 1. No.1, 2013. (Seems to be the house ejournal of the English Dept. at the University of Toronto)
* Justin Woodman (2004), “Alien Selves: modernity and the social diagnostics of the demonic in “Lovecraftian Magick”, Journal for the Academic Study of Magic, 2, 2004.
06 Friday Dec 2013
A new collection of work by Lovecraft’s friend and amateur press associate Mrs Miniter, The Village Green and Other Pieces by Edith Miniter…
“… editors Faig and Donnelly renew their determination to establish Mrs. Miniter in her rightful place as a New England Regionalist. Three unfinished novels form the core of this volume, together with numerous short stories. Two unusual items round out the collection: “A Rearward Glance,” an autobiographical summary of a life in amateur journalism; and “How to Dress on $40 a Year,” a humorous piece displaying Miniter’s characteristic wit.”
