Dreams in the Witch House: A Lovecraftian Rock Opera
21 Monday Oct 2013
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
Fleeting-Improvised-Men reviewed
20 Sunday Oct 2013
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, New books
Green Mountains Review reviews the new book The Natural Dissolution of Fleeting-Improvised-Men, which weaves a pseudo-scholarly fiction around H.P. Lovecraft’s “last letter”.
Bewilderments of Vision
19 Saturday Oct 2013
Posted in New books
New book, Bewilderments of Vision : Hallucination and Literature, 1880–1914. Cercles review…
“The fifth Chapter is a study of Arthur Machen’s novel The Hill of Dreams (1907). It relies on insights from various authors like William James, Andrew Lang, John Addington Symonds, but also contemporary critics such as S.T. Joshi, Roger Luckhurst, Linda Dowling, and Julia Briggs.”
The Shepard Cafeteria
12 Saturday Oct 2013
Posted in Historical context, Lovecraftian arts, NecronomiCon 2013
On display as part of the NecronomiCon 2013 exhibitions, a postcard that H.P. Lovecraft sent to Donald Wandrei in 1934, with his own ink drawing overlay and self-portrait. Part of the Brown University collection…
It presumably shows his black writing materials case, seen resting at the foot of the chair. This was commented on by several people in Lovecraft Remembered, but was never photographed only photographed once.
The Shepard Cafeteria postcard as a clean scan…
“[the Mathewson St cafe] was owned by John Shepard [III], “a radio mogul, [who also] owned department stores in Boston and on Westminster Street in Providence.” (Providence, Arcadia Publising, p.93)
Lovecraft in Sweden
11 Friday Oct 2013
Posted in Scholarly works
Lovecraft at Norrkoping Public Library…
“One of my responsibilities at Norrkoping Public Library is arranging academic lectures, inviting Swedish scholars and authors engaged in current cultural and scientific debate. This activity has by now developed into a form of literary salon, opening with a my dialogue with the author followed by a lecture and often a very vivid and stimulating discussion. On October 2, I invited Mattias Fyhr, Assistant Professor in Literary Criticism at Stockholm University and lecturer in Literary Criticism at Jonkoping University […] Mattias is the author of Dod men drommande: H.P. Lovecraft och den magiska modernismen (Dead But Dreaming: H.P. Lovecraft and Magic Modernism).”
Haunted Landscapes: Nature, Super-Nature and the Environment
10 Thursday Oct 2013
Posted in Scholarly works
Haunted Landscapes: Nature, Super-Nature and the Environment is a forthcoming symposium to be hosted by Falmouth University in Cornwall, with the UK’s Association for the Study of Literature and Environment. Date is 8th March 2014.
“From places and spaces haunted by spectres, memory or history to conceptions of landscape as palimpsest, holy wells and ancient sites, literature, art and film have always explored concepts of the supernatural and the landscape and environment. … Encounters with the landscape reverberate through the ages and through the rocks, trees, hills and streams that are still present today.”
Photos: Radcliffe
Shoggoths in May
08 Tuesday Oct 2013
Posted in Scholarly works
Soggoth reproduction? You don’t want to know. You do? Oh, ok then…
“But oh! If only they would make some sound”
07 Monday Oct 2013
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, Podcasts etc.
CthulhuWho1 has built a huge Lovecraft audio links gateway…
“correlates all of the over 1,050 known links to audio readings, and dramatizations of H. P. Lovecraft’s works that are freely available to listen to (most with just one click); and to download if desired.”
Lontar
07 Monday Oct 2013
Posted in New books
LONTAR: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction. Speculative writing from and about the Philippines, Malaysia, Cambodia, Singapore, Laos and Vietnam. 25% free sample on Issuu.
Mind and madness
07 Monday Oct 2013
Posted in Odd scratchings
How does Lovecraftian madness read in cultures that have differing conceptions of mind?
The Lao, like many communities in Southeast Asia, have only recently become familiar with Western notions of psychology and sanity. This leads to an interesting discussion of how Lovecraft’s recurring themes of the cosmic threats to sanity and an ordered, consistent sense of the cosmos may be an utterly alien topic of terror. One can almost imagine a Lao reader going “Ha ha ha. Oh. You lost the American version of your mind? That’s it?”
Royalty-free H.P. Lovecraft graphics pack
05 Saturday Oct 2013
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
There’s a new H.P. Lovecraft graphics pack at the digital scrapbooking store Mischief Circus. Commercial online/digital use is forbidden for these graphics, but otherwise they only require a credit when used for print or for personal digital artworks. All 44 graphics are at a print-resolution and large size. Here’s a sample…
More Open Lovecraft
03 Thursday Oct 2013
Posted in Scholarly works
New additions to the Open Lovecraft page…
* Negin Ghodrati (2013), “The Creation, Evolution and Aftermath of Lovecraftian Horror” (Masters dissertation, University of Oslo).
* Gabriela Birnfeld Kurtz (2013), “Cibercultura e H.P. Lovecraft: historias de horror no tempo da inteligencia coletiva”, Revista Tematica, Sept 2013. (In Portuguese. Lovecraft’s ideas and networks related to the concepts of cyberculture, collective intelligence and culture fandoms, with special reference to contemporary Facebook activity).