Added to Open Lovecraft

11 Wednesday Dec 2013

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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

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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.”

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The Unnameable Monster in Literature and Film

06 Friday Dec 2013

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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

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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”:

lighthouseLake Michigan Lighthouse.

iceballsIce eggs, unknown shoreline.

Manpupuner
Manpupuner Rocks, North Ural Mountains, Russia.

SvalbardtSvalbard Plateau, Norway.

SvalbardniorwaySvalbard, Norway.

ff_antarctica4_fResearch station, Antarctica.

domesouthResearch dome, Antarctica.

SvinafellsekullglacierIceland
Inside Svinafellsekull glacier, Iceland.

Night-on-a-Strange-PlanetNamafjall, North Iceland.

They filtered down from the Web…

29 Friday Nov 2013

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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.

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Neo-reactionaries

25 Monday Nov 2013

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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.

Occult humanities

16 Saturday Nov 2013

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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.