Robert M. Price on the latest Skeptic.com MonsterTalk podcast. In their “Speak of the Devil” special, Robert M. Price talks about the history and evolution of the concept of The Devil.
Price on the Devil
06 Friday Dec 2013
Posted in Podcasts etc.
The Unnameable Monster in Literature and Film
06 Friday Dec 2013
Posted in New books, Scholarly works
New from academic publisher Routledge, The Unnameable Monster in Literature and Film (Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature)
Table of contents:
Introduction.
1. Monsters as we know them: a history of named monsters.
2. Articulating the abstract: theories of the unnameable.
3. ‘Things’ not to be named nor understood: the unnameable monster in nineteenth century literature.
4. The ‘thing’ keeps coming back: modern and postmodern nondescriptors.
5. The spectacle of the lack: realising the monster on screen.
Conclusion.
Lovecraftian Places That Really Exist: special winter edition
03 Tuesday Dec 2013
Posted in Lovecraftian places
Since most of America seems to be suffering from record levels of ‘global warming’ this week, here’s the really cold edition of “Lovecraftian Places That Really Exist”:
Lake Michigan Lighthouse.
Ice eggs, unknown shoreline.
Manpupuner Rocks, North Ural Mountains, Russia.
Svalbard Plateau, Norway.
Svalbard, Norway.
Research station, Antarctica.
Research dome, Antarctica.
Inside Svinafellsekull glacier, Iceland.
Namafjall, North Iceland.
The Night
30 Saturday Nov 2013
Posted in Odd scratchings
Cool cover for the latest issue of the UK’s New Scientist magazine. It’s a “The Night” special issue, and so I wonder if it might spark some fresh ideas among Lovecraftian writers…
They filtered down from the Web…
29 Friday Nov 2013
Posted in Odd scratchings
Weird Tales interviews Wilum Pugmire.
SF writer Charles Stross muses on What Scared Lovecraft (hint: a big weird universe).
An interview with Gabriel Blackwell about his book The Natural Dissolution of Fleeting-Improvised-Men: The Last Letter of H.P. Lovecraft.
LA Review of Books reviews S.T. Joshi’s latest, the The Cosmic Horror Colouring Book. Oops, no, my mistake… it’s Unutterable Horror: A History of Supernatural Fiction.
Neo-reactionaries
25 Monday Nov 2013
Posted in Odd scratchings
A little over seventy years after Lovecraft’s death, there appears to be a modern political tendency that he might have felt at home with. It seems to me that these guys are being a little optimistic about the return to a human aristocracy, in the face of a future where untouchable ‘Computer says No!’ AI-augmented bots are effectively already the new aristocrats and poised to spread their rule to more and more parts of our lives.
Boroughs of the Dead
20 Wednesday Nov 2013
Posted in Unnamable
Boroughs of the Dead: Macabre New York City Walking Tours…
“November’s featured tour is The Weird West Village: From Crowley to Lovecraft“
Cthulhus Ruf
20 Wednesday Nov 2013
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
Cthulhus Ruf, a German Lovecraft fanzine. It doesn’t seem to be just a gamezine, although I don’t read German and could be wrong.
Beyond Borderlands
16 Saturday Nov 2013
Posted in Scholarly works
Occult humanities
16 Saturday Nov 2013
Posted in Scholarly works
Only just heard about this. Occult Humanities conference, 18th-20th October 2013 in New York…
“The conference will present a wide array of voices active in the cultural landscape who are specifically addressing the occult tradition through research, scholarship and artistic practice. [from] a rich and expanding community of international artists and academics from multiple disciplines across the humanities who share an exuberance and excitement for how the occult traditions interface with their fields of study as well as the culture at large.”
Hopefully the organisers will summon up some of that occult ‘action at a distance’ thing, and put session podcasts online in the near future.
Open Lovecraft links checked
16 Saturday Nov 2013
Posted in Scholarly works
I checked the Open Lovecraft page page for link-rot, and have repaired where needed.
Silent Sentinels
14 Thursday Nov 2013
Posted in Historical context, Scholarly works
Possibly of interest to anyone writing on historical elements used in “The Dreams in The Witch House”: the PhD thesis Silent Sentinels: archaeology, magic, and the gendered control of domestic boundaries in New England, 1620-1725.