Roll20

16 Saturday Feb 2013

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Always wanted to try Lovecraft RPG gaming, but put off by the thought of travelling to get to a game with guys who actually take it seriously? Or were you scared by the prospect of having to sit between your mate’s beardy-weirdy cousins? A new service called Roll20 apparently allows you to play these games online via a… “Web-based online virtual tabletop for all roleplaying games”. The UK’s respected PC Gamer magazine gave it a positive five-page article, in the latest issue. It sounds rather interesting, and it seems the only drawback is that you don’t get to munch on free pizza paid for by your host’s mom.

Bleeding far away…

13 Wednesday Feb 2013

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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…

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More Open Lovecraft

11 Monday Feb 2013

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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).

Fine/near-fine Weird Tales/Lovecraft collection for sale

06 Wednesday Feb 2013

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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.”

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Mazes and Labyrinths

02 Saturday Feb 2013

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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…

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More Open Lovecraft

26 Saturday Jan 2013

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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”).