15 Friday Feb 2013
New book, A Look Behind the Derleth Mythos: Origins of the Cthulhu Mythos. Apparently the retail version was shipped over Xmas 2012/13. It’s a 390-page book by John D. Haefele, who gives: a defence of Derleth; a survey of Derleth’s Lovecraft collaborations and Derleth’s own Mythos work; and a rebuttal of The Rise and Fall of the Cthulhu Mythos.
13 Wednesday Feb 2013
Posted in Podcasts etc., Scholarly works
40 minute Bookotron / Rick Kleffel interview with S.T. Joshi, from 2009.
13 Wednesday Feb 2013
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
Bleeding Cool Magazine #2 (out now) has “Modernizing Lovecraft, an In-Depth Interview With Alan Moore, Part 2”, concluding the interview that began in the first issue (dated Oct, on the shelves mid Nov 2012). The two articles are not online, and Bleeding Cool doesn’t seem to offer mail-order print copies or digital CBR copies. It seems you have to pitch up at a friendly local comics retail shop and gingerly ease your way through the adolescent hordes, in the hope that a copy is still on the shelves. /Sigh/ Yup, looks like my nearest stockist is 50 miles away. To eBay, then…
13 Wednesday Feb 2013
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
The Portland Phoenix reviews the exhibition Lovecraft: A Darker Key (at Sanctuary, 31 Forest Ave, Portland, until 1st May 2013). Strange Maine also reviews the show and handily links to a Flickr set.
Above: by Carrie-Anne Vinette.
11 Monday Feb 2013
Posted in Scholarly works
Three new items added to the Open Lovecraft page…
* Brendan Robert West (2012), Whisperer: A Study in Adaptation. (M.A. dissertation at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. Examines the methodologies of adaption for H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Whisperer in Darkness”)
* Joakim Dahlback (2012), Cthulhu vaknar pa vita duken: en jamforande analys av H.P. Lovecraft’s The Call of Cthulhu och Andrew Lemans filmatisering av den. (Undergraduate dissertation in Swedish. Title in English: “Cthulhu awakes on the silver screen: a comparative analysis of H.P. Lovecraft’s The Call of Cthulhu and Andrew Leman’s film version of it.”)
* J. Michael Bestul (2006), Cthulhu Lives!: A Descriptive Study of the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society. (M.A. dissertation for Bowling Green State University).
09 Saturday Feb 2013
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
H.P. Lovecraft 72-hour Film Competition (PDF link) in Portland, May 2013.
08 Friday Feb 2013
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
Brilliant new DIY pulp cover maker, Pulp-o-Mizer…
06 Wednesday Feb 2013
Posted in Historical context, Lovecraftian arts
Booktryst interviews John K. Martin (Black Sparrow Press) about his Lovecraft Weird Tales collection…
“82 years old, John has put his superlative collection of H.P. Lovecraft in Weird Tales, the famed pulp magazine, up for sale. A remarkable collection of eighty gorgeous issues amassed over decades, each – incredibly – is in fine to very fine condition with yapp edges intact; these old pulps are usually encountered in rubbed, sunned, toned, and torn shape.”
02 Saturday Feb 2013
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
$30 vinyl wall decals, to Lovecraftify your living space.
02 Saturday Feb 2013
Posted in Odd scratchings
I’ve never seen any evidence that Lovecraft saw or read this work, but the 1922 book Mazes and Labyrinths: A General Account of their History and Developments might have tickled his imagination, if he had picked it up in the Providence library or encountered it later in the libraries of New York. It has two opening chapters on the Egyptian forms, and a closing one on mazes in literature. It’s available to read online…
26 Saturday Jan 2013
Posted in Scholarly works
Added to the Open Lovecraft page…
* G. Warlock Vance (2010), “Dread and portent : reading H.P. Lovecraft’s Necronomicon as social commentary”, PhD thesis, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2010.
* Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju (2012), “”Aquatic Ancestry” by Kingsley Nnabuagha and the fiction of Howard Phillips Lovecraft : a study in imaginative convergence”. Part of the Compcros library run by Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju.
* Henrik Boe Ueland (2010), “Frykten som litteraer erfaring : Grenseerfaring og transgresjon i H.P. Lovecraft’s forfatterskap”. Masters dissertation, University of Bergen, 2010. In Nowegian, with English summary. (“Fear as a Literary Experience : borders and transgression in the fiction of H.P. Lovecraft”).
23 Wednesday Jan 2013
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
del Toro is to have another go at getting a major studio to put up the money for the filming of At the Mountains of Madness…
“I’m going to try it one more time. Once more into the dark abyss,” he laughed. “We’re gonna do a big presentation of the project again at the start of the year and see if any [studio’s] interested.” And yes, Tom Cruise is still game to be on board if they can find a home for it. “Yeah, Tom is still attached. I think it would be so fantastic to make it with him. He’s been such a great ally of the project.”