New online Lovecraft bibliography

04 Tuesday Dec 2012

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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.”

Jersey Devil Press special “Lovecraft like Gaiman” issue

04 Tuesday Dec 2012

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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.

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NecronomiCon call for papers

16 Friday Nov 2012

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NecronomiCon Providence is calling for scholarly papers for the academic strand on Lovecraft and his works…

“…including the influence of history, architecture, science (anthropology, biology, geology, etc), and popular culture (movies, theater, etc), on his works.”

But you have to be able to deliver it in person in Providence on 23rd-25th August 2013, and if selected will be allotted just twenty minutes. Perhaps fannish conferences such as this could also run a more flexible fannish format in parallel, for those unable to attend: “present the talk to video, and ramble on for as long as you want…” 😉

Darger’s Resources

16 Friday Nov 2012

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A new book by Michael Moon, Darger’s Resources (Duke University Press, 2012), historically contextualises the American outsider artist Henry Darger, through an examination of his actual and likely sources. One chapter that may interest Lovecraftian scholars is called “Wierd Flesh, World’s Flesh: Darger and the pulps”. Google Books is only letting me have a selection of pages but there appears to be no actual suggestion of direct influence, from Darger having read Lovecraft. But Moon notes that Darger’s work on The Realms was contemporaneous (1908/11-1938) with Lovecraft’s working years and ‘the pulp years’, and Moon draws parallels between the two men’s approaches to evoking horrors.