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.”
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.
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.
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.
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…
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.
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.
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“
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.
16 Saturday Nov 2013
Posted in Scholarly works
