23 Monday Sep 2013
Posted in New books, Scholarly works
New interview by Marcha, in Spanish, with the Lovecraftian philosopher Fabian Luduena Romandini…
“the recent appearance of his latest book, devoted to H.P. Lovecraft [H.P. Lovecraft, la disyuncion en el ser] and published by Hecho Atomico Ediciones, 2013, offers a new and unsettling gateway [95 pages] to his latest work. This work in progress, we can tell already, is among the most original and poignant in contemporary philosophy.”
23 Monday Sep 2013
Posted in Scholarly works
Don Herron publishes a lengthy response to the recent book review by S.T. Joshi of John Haefele’s A Look Behind the Derleth Mythos.
22 Sunday Sep 2013
Posted in NecronomiCon 2013
My unofficial round-up of NecronomiCon Providence 2013 news and links…
* Cthulhu Commune remembers the Picnic with Wilum Pugmire, Part I and Part II. Part two has audio of Pumire’s fateful reading of Derleth’s poem “Providence: Two Men Meet at Midnight”.
* Rough photo of the cover of the Providence Phoenix…
* Fred S. Lubnow has kindly placed online Part I of the talk, “Human Interpretations on the Biology and Evolution of the Old Ones”, given at NecronomiCon 2013.
* Odd Things Seen has some fab photos, including a photo of the lobby poster at the con, also showing to full effect the sumptuous decor of the Biltmore…
* Penelope Love remembers the College Hill Walking tour and the convention itself, with photos.
* “I’m serving Cthulhu shaped mini gherkins” — fab idea for refreshments at the next convention 🙂
22 Sunday Sep 2013
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
Complete comics adaptation of “Dagon” online, albeit in a phone-cam fuzz-o-vision that doesn’t do the artwork justice.
22 Sunday Sep 2013
Right-wing intellectual and novelist Alex Kurtagic reviews S.T. Joshi’s I Am Providence.
21 Saturday Sep 2013
Posted in Scholarly works
The ‘final frontier’ for Lovecraft studies? Not only having all the Joshi-Shultz complete archive of Lovecraft’s letters placed online, in an electronic searchable scholarly edition — but also having that opened up for a 30-year programme of annotation and hyperlinking by scholars.
21 Saturday Sep 2013
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, Odd scratchings
Amazingly, there are still Lovecraft monsters that haven’t been worked up into game monsters by the table-top gamers. I can add another one, from the previously unpublished Wilbraham letter (ms. to Lillian D. Clark, 1st July 1928) that I was able to access for my latest book of essays…
“…lean brown marsh-things (invisible to mortal eyes) who wave & brandish them [constellations of fire-flies] in the gloaming when the unseen nether world awakes.”
Interesting also, that here we may have the genesis of the invisible monster which he was to place centre-stage in “The Dunwich Horror”. He wrote the story immediately after the Wilbraham visit.
21 Saturday Sep 2013
Posted in Podcasts etc., Scholarly works
New podcast lecture from Durham University, in the north of England, UK. “Such Terrifying Vistas of Reality’: lunatic landscapes in the works of H.P. Lovecraft”…
“David Varley takes a tour through the uncanny landscapes of H.P. Lovecraft. This lecture was recorded as part of the Late Summer Lecture Series given by Ph.D students to bring new research to a public audience.”
Sadly it’s posted on some crappy Flash player system called MixCloud, rather than as a simple mp3 — and MixCloud doesn’t seem to want to work on my system
Update: Thanks to Read Durham for an alternative MP3 link: http://bit.ly/1f67k4D The long ‘Lovecraft for beginners’ preamble ends 23:28, when the landscape bit starts.
21 Saturday Sep 2013
Posted in New books, Scholarly works
My 2013 Lovecraft Annual has yet to arrive, but Wilum Pugmire has perused a copy and winkled out a nugget ‘o news, on a new S.T. Joshi volume…
“The Variorum Lovecraft, to be publish’d by Hippocampus Press in four volumes. […] could begin publication as early as next year, I hope to present all the relevant textual variants for all the stories that Lovecraft wrote over his short literary career. […] may include the printing of passages from handwritten or typed manuscripts (chiefly the former) that were excised as Lovecraft was writing the story or as he performed a subsequent revision of it.”
Sounds like the ideal candidate for an interactive electronic edition?
20 Friday Sep 2013
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, NecronomiCon 2013, Scholarly works
Fred S. Lubnow has kindly placed online Part I of the talk, “Human Interpretations on the Biology and Evolution of the Old Ones”, that he gave at NecronomiCon 2013. Once all the parts are posted, then I’ll be adding this to the Open Lovecraft page.
Fred writes…
“The talk is on the biology and evolution of the Old Ones, and I have elaborated on it a bit. A number of people have asked for a copy of the talk, and I thought it would be best to put it onto the blog.”
20 Friday Sep 2013
Posted in Scholarly works
Added to the Open Lovecraft page…
* Andreas Schardt (2011), “The Gothic Pastoral: terrible idylls in late nineteenth and twentieth-century literature”. (Ph.D for the Faculty of Modern Languages, University of Heidelberg, Germany. In English. Examines “The Colour out of Space” and “The Dunwich Horror” on pp.163-177).
* Mark Blacklock (2013), Final Bibliography for his 2013 Ph.D thesis “The Fairyland of Geometry: a cultural history of higher space, 1869-1909”. (Relevant to the young Lovecraft’s understanding of fourth-dimensional space and similar scientific matters).
Above: Inside front fold-out plate of The Fourth Dimension (1904).
19 Thursday Sep 2013
