Merry Yuletide
18 Wednesday Dec 2013
Posted in Odd scratchings
Arkham Insiders on Lovecraft and the Munsey magazines
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.
Finnteresting
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
Added to Open Lovecraft
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”).
Huan Vu’s The Dreamlands
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.
A curious cabinet from the British Library
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…
Added to Open Lovecraft
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.
The Village Green and Other Pieces by Edith Miniter
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.”
Price on the Devil
06 Friday Dec 2013
Posted in Podcasts etc.
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.
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…
