Necronomicon Pages AI generator

07 Tuesday Nov 2023

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Necronomicon Pages – v1.0. This is only a LORA, something perhaps best thought of as a small plug-in for a large generative AI base model. The pages were made using this LORA with the EIDOMODE Stable Diffusion 1.5 Checkpoint model.

Here the indecipherable-ness of AI text is turned to advantage.

Also spotted, a new LORA for Hannes Bok – Golden Age Pulp Style – v1.0, for use with the SD 1.5 base model. May work well with Metropolis 1927 style.

And since this is also Kittee Tuesday, yes… there’s also a LORA for High Quality Cats – v1.0 and the more meme-friendly CuteCat – v1.0. Even a cosmic Space Cat generator. Though the LORA for the 200+ feline cat expressions they can make has yet to arrive. Still, these are perhaps useful for making “H.P. Lovecat” images.

Patrick Muller

06 Monday Nov 2023

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The monthly update from the German Lovecraftians notes their latest podcast…

An interview with the filmmaker Patrick Muller on 15th October 2023: “With his silent visual reflections on literature, Patrick Muller has created his very own cinematic cosmos,” says Clemens Williges of the Braunschweig Film Festival. There in three short films, Patrick devotes himself to the cosmic horror of H.P. Lovecraft. On the podcast he talks about his passion for analog film-stock as, pop cultural socialisation in communist East Germany, the cinema as a place for transgressive moods, the role of music, and writing for cineastes – and of course about H.P Lovecraft.

The dLG-Radio interview is on YouTube, so the Googlebot automatically translates the German to English subtitles.

Patrick’s site is www.patrickcinema.de complete with lobby posters and links to his films…

The Ladd in the 1920s

03 Friday Nov 2023

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This week on ‘Picture Postals from Lovecraft’, a pleasing postcard of the Ladd Observatory in Providence. Probably in the late 1920s, as it would have looked on Lovecraft’s return to his city from New York City, since it’s known that the foliage had grown up the walls by the 1930s.

Source:

After my fix, clean and a few dabs of additional colouring and shading:

Letters of H.P. Lovecraft & Clark Ashton Smith, and other audio goodness

02 Thursday Nov 2023

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New on YouTube, an audio reading by ‘thehashisheater’ of several Lovecraft letters. Being “The Letters of H.P. Lovecraft & Clark Ashton Smith: The First Three Letters From Lovecraft”.

Also on YouTube, a new hour-long S.T. Joshi Interview.

Even more free audio in the form of LibriVox’s new Halloween 2023 Short Ghost and Horror Collection 070 includes R.E. Howard and 2 x H.P. Lovecraft, among others.

And finally, spotted on Honest Abe’s site… a 2023 ‘inspired by Lovecraft’ vinyl L.P. Definitely not free audio, at a hefty $61.

Drone idols

01 Wednesday Nov 2023

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John Coulthart takes a long dive into “The Great Drone Ones”. Being his survey of… “the series of Lovecraft-themed albums that Cryo Chamber have been releasing each year since 2014”. The “wholly instrumental” “dark ambient” music…

is a better match for weird fiction than most of the rock music derived from Lovecraft’s stories, in part because it resembles the kinds of atmospheric timbres that you find on the better horror soundtracks.

Theology and H.P. Lovecraft

31 Tuesday Oct 2023

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A review of the multi-author book Theology and H.P. Lovecraft (2022). Paywalled at Project MUSE, but a substantial chunk of the review is available free. Useful and detailed, even with ‘what there is’ of the review. The reviewer makes me want to take a look at the book, bouncing off my very slightly deeper understanding of theological points which I’ve glimpsed due to my interest in Tolkien. The books TOCs also look quite enticing…

Alice Hamlet of Boston

29 Sunday Oct 2023

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Deep Cuts examines what can be known about the lost Lovecraft correspondent Alice M. Hamlet, and finds a good photographic portrait. She was a Boston concert pianist and a keen amateur journalist.

I see the New England Piano Teachers’ Assoc. still holds an annual Alice Hamlet Competition, presumably named after her and in her memory. They may be interested in knowing about the pictures of her?

New book: Art of the Grimoire

28 Saturday Oct 2023

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Art of the Grimoire: An Illustrated History of Magic Books and Spells (October 2023) from Yale University Press. Reviews describe the new book as a “copiously illustrated” “coffee-table book”, covering everything “from ancient papyri to pulp paperbacks”.

Very possibly this is a cut-down repackaging of the same author’s Grimoires: A History of Magic Books (2010)? Just a guess. His earlier book was a chunky ‎380 pages from Oxford University Press, and is on Archive.org. It also looks like you can easily pick it up in paperback for £10 (about $15). This earlier book sounds very similar to the new one, and had a few pages outlining Lovecraft and the Necronomicon.