20 Thursday Dec 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, Odd scratchings
Ok, time to wrap up this blog until the New Year. I hope readers have enjoyed the posts and pics during 2012. I leave you with a glimpse of the ultimate horror… Christmas Cthulhu 😉
19 Wednesday Dec 2012
Posted in Historical context, New books, Scholarly works
PS Publishing’s website has is taking orders for S.T. Joshi’s monumental new work Unutterable Horror – a History of Supernatural Fiction, Volume 1: From Gilgamesh to the End of the Nineteenth Century, and Unutterable Horror – a History of Supernatural Fiction, Volume 2: The Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries. £35 each, in hardcover.
[ Hat-tip: S.T. Joshi’s blog ]
15 Saturday Dec 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, Scholarly works
Added to the Lovecraft on the Web directory… the Lovecraftian zine Cyaegha. Sadly the format is an old school print-sniffer’s limited edition print chapbook, several of which are marked “SOLD OUT” /sigh/. But the contents look quite fabulous.
![Cyaegha 7 [Lilac]](https://www.jurn.link/tentaclii/oldimages/cyaegha-7-lilac.jpg?w=207)
15 Saturday Dec 2012
Posted in Scholarly works
New additions to the Open Lovecraft page:
* Hannes Storhaug-Meyer (2010), The Morphology of the Unknown : the narrative technique of Howard Philips Lovecraft (Masters degree dissertation, University of Oslo)
* Elizabeth A. Clendinning and Kathleen McAuley (2010), “The Call of Cthulhu : narrativity of the cult in metal”, IN: The Metal Void: First Gatherings, Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2010.
09 Sunday Dec 2012
Posted in Podcasts etc.
The gloaming, a 30 minute BBC Radio 4 documentary on…
“the ‘in-between moments’ of twilight at the start and end of each day.”
04 Tuesday Dec 2012
Posted in Scholarly works
Interesting news from S.T. Joshi, in his latest blog post, on a definitive Lovecraft ‘starter’ bibliography…
“I have been asked by Oxford University Press to prepare a bibliography of Lovecraft for some online venue. The idea is to present a list of the most important works by and about Lovecraft, with an emphasis on scholarly books and articles on all aspects of Lovecraft’s life, work, and thought. The bibliography will be continually updated. I have already prepared a rough draft of the work and hope to send it to the publisher well in advance of the due date of December 31.”
04 Tuesday Dec 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
The Jersey Devil Press is doing a Lovecraft mash-ups issue…
“inspired by Gaiman stories like “A Study in Emerald” and “I Cthulhu” we’re looking for something special… a mash-up of one literary style or theme with ol’ Howard Phillips to create something new, ideally something dark and ferocious, very possibly with a healthy dose of humor. In short, write Lovecraft like Neil Gaiman!”
Deadline: 1st May 2013.
27 Tuesday Nov 2012
Posted in Podcasts etc.
A pretty good short BBC radio documentary on fan fiction: When Harry Potter met Frodo: The Strange World of Fan Fiction. Available online. Despite the cow-catching title, copyright means it doesn’t dwell for more than a few seconds on Potter or LoTR. Lovecraft’s mythos sadly doesn’t get a namecheck as the ur-site of fan fiction in the 20th century.
25 Sunday Nov 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
New work from Alan Bao, “Lovecraftian Evolution”…
20 Tuesday Nov 2012
Posted in New books
Barnes & Noble is now taking orders for its exclusive 160-page oversize hardback Nightmare Countries: H.P. Lovecraft, the master of cosmic horror by S.T. Joshi. H.P.Lovecraft.com has a page for the book, giving details of the chapter titles and illustrations.
Apparently it’s been piled in some of the Barnes & Noble stores in the USA, for a few weeks now?
18 Sunday Nov 2012
Posted in Historical context, Scholarly works
The University of Michigan has announced a free online academic course in Fantasy and Science Fiction: The Human Mind, Our Modern World. No sign-up yet or precise dates yet, but it looks like it might be a 10-week summer school in summer 2013. One to watch.
18 Sunday Nov 2012
A new blog post from S.T. Joshi, with the news that the definitive Lovecraft biography…
“I Am Providence (2010) will be translated into German.”