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.”
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.
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?”
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…
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).
03 Thursday Oct 2013
Posted in NecronomiCon 2013, Scholarly works
Part five of the NecronomiCon 2013 talk on the biology of Lovecraft’s creatures: Shoggoths, with two more sections on shoggoths still to come…
“I see the Shoggoth as a endosymbiotic organism as well, being far more complex than the lichen (or human for that matter). Given their extreme plasticity and adaptability, the Shoggoth is probably a conglomeration of eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells.”
01 Tuesday Oct 2013
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
Forthcoming cine-boom book of Lovecraft’s “Hypnos”. A cine-what? Think: interactive motion-comic + audio book, played on an iPad or Kindle Fire tablet…
Skip to 28 seconds if you want to cut the intro-fluff…
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01 Tuesday Oct 2013
Posted in Scholarly works
Northern Illinois University has a Lovecraft collection, including letters? Yup…
“The collection consists of Lovecraft’s fiction writing, letters, poems, scientific articles, pulp magazine stories, books about Lovecraft, collections of Lovecraft stories, titles of books known to have lived in Lovecraft’s personal library, and a few miscellaneous items, including several manuscript letters.”
No online finding aid to exactly what the collection holds, it seems. Fandom Directory, 2000, confirms there are only “a few letters”.
30 Monday Sep 2013
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
If Lovecraft’s friends had clubbed together for a memorial clock in 1937, perhaps to hang over the entrance to Providence train station, this is what it might have looked like (perhaps add a few tentacle silhouette clock-hands)…
30 Monday Sep 2013
Posted in New books
The hardback of the S.T. Joshi anthology A Mountain Walked is now on Amazon UK and USA, dated 18th March 2014 and with a list price of £157.48 ($254). Listed as $225 on the Amazon USA site.
“…over a dozen new stories inspired by H.P. Lovecraft and his Cthulhu Mythos”
29 Sunday Sep 2013
Posted in New books
A long newspaper review by Michael Dirda, of S.T. Joshi’s history of supernatural fiction, Unutterable Horror.
27 Friday Sep 2013
Posted in Odd scratchings
“Let’s build that cool science-fiction idea, and make it work”, says a new MIT course MAS S95: Science Fiction to Science Fabrication…
“With a focus on the creation of functional prototypes, this class combines the analysis of classic and modern science fiction texts and films with physical fabrication or code-based interpretations of the technologies they depict.”
I nominate Tillinghast’s resonance wave machine (in “From Beyond”), perhaps in a cyber-goggles form that would enable one to safely see into and selectively merge the unseen wavelengths of light…
“Do you know what that is?” he whispered, “That is ultra-violet.” He chuckled oddly at my surprise. “You thought ultra-violet was invisible, and so it is – but you can see that and many other invisible things now.”