30 Tuesday Oct 2012
Posted in Odd scratchings, Scholarly works
The Graham-Wesson collection of amateur journals newly photographed. The Collection is…
“now being indexed for the NAPA, AAPA, and The Fossils”
Including a glimpse of a picture of a young Lovecraft (in his late 20s?) wearing his glasses, a picture which I don’t think I’ve ever seen before…
30 Tuesday Oct 2012
Posted in Odd scratchings
H.P. Lovecraft’s Selected Letters I, II, III, IV, V, all first editions, plus an envelope with Lovecraft’s name and return address written on the back. A snip at £1606.35. Even the most judicious shopper would have to pay about £250 for a set of the later editions, these days, so I guess it’s the envelope that’s costing around £1,200.
29 Monday Oct 2012
Posted in Scholarly works
A new open access ejournal, Eaton Journal of Archival Research in Science Fiction…
“We are now soliciting articles for the first issue, scheduled for publication April 10th, 2013, and for subsequent issues of the Eaton Journal of Archival Research in Science Fiction.”
25 Thursday Oct 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, New books, Scholarly works
Super news from S.T. Joshi. He’s to edit a collection of Clark Ashton Smith for Penguin Classics. Stories, but also prose-poems and poems. Let’s hope the forthcoming merger with Random House doesn’t see the planned roster for Penguin Classics affected.
Joshi has also…
“been asked to be the keynote speaker at a conference on weird fiction to be hosted by Birkbeck College, [University of] London, around November 8, 2013”
24 Wednesday Oct 2012
Posted in Scholarly works
Addition to the Open Lovecraft page:
* Eduardo Cesar Godarth (2012), “Um olhar descritivo sobre as traducoes brasileiras de Supernatural Horror in Literature, de H.P. Lovecraft” (Dissertation in Brazilian Portuguese. Makes a Translation Studies analysis of two Brazilian translations (1987, 2008) of the Lovecraft essay “Supernatural Horror in Literature”).
21 Sunday Oct 2012
Posted in Odd scratchings
National Black Cat Day in the UK on Thursday 25th October, to encourage more people to adopt unwanted black cats for Halloween (and beyond). Lovecraft would surely approve.
21 Sunday Oct 2012
Posted in Odd scratchings
Very Lovecraft: Cat discovers 2,000-year-old Roman catacomb.
12 Friday Oct 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
Stockholm (Sweden, Scandinavia) officially promotes the city’s Lovecraft Festival II…
[ Photo: From Beyond ]
12 Friday Oct 2012
Posted in New books
A new Kindle ebook, Houdini & Lovecraft: The Ghost Writer, a novelization of a feature-film screenplay. Sounds interesting…
“It’s 1924, an era of emerging technology, but also of spiritualism and [stage] magic. Harry Houdini, the great conjurer and mystifier, well known as a psychic debunker, is hired to put together a team to investigate [plot spoiler]. Meanwhile, horror writer H.P. Lovecraft is down on his luck [in New York, and] Houdini drafts the reluctant Lovecraft to join his team […] to chronicle the magician’s adventures in the paranormal.”
The author Ron Wilkerson has written a good deal of the newer Star Trek series, and…
“…was nominated for an Emmy as a part of the writing team on the seventh season of Star Trek: The Next Generation.”
06 Saturday Oct 2012
Posted in Historical context, New discoveries
[ Expanded version of this post, in footnoted essay form, can now be found in my new book Lovecraft in Historical Context: fourth collection. ]
03 Wednesday Oct 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
Bloggers! Having a Slow News Week for Lovecraft? Whip out the Inflatable Cthulhu Beard, and all your problems are solved… 😉
Actually being sold on eBay.
29 Saturday Sep 2012
Posted in Scholarly works
A few more items added to the Open Lovecraft page…
* Kisantal Tamas (2003) “Fantasztikum, horror es toredekesseg H.P. Lovecraft szovegeiben”, Tartalom, 2003, 1, pp.14-22. (In Hungarian).
* Oliver Hedegaard Holm (2005), “Skygger Over Tiden: it studie i forfatteren H.P. Lovecraft som oversaettelsesobjekt. (In Danish with an English summary as an appendix. Title translates as: “Shadows Over Time: H.P. Lovecraft as an object of literary translation”. Examines the elements that characterise Lovecraft’s fiction, and from this suggests a set of criteria to assess the validity of a foreign-language translation of his stories).
* Oliver Plaschka (2008) “Verlorene Arkadien: sas pastorale motiv in der englischen und amerikanischen fantastischen Literatur — H.P. Lovecraft, James Branch Cabell, Mervyn Peake, William Gibson”. (Thesis in German. Title translates as: “Arcadia Lost: the pastoral theme in English and American fantastic literature”).
* Louis-Pierre Smith Lacroix (2008), Mythologie de Lovecraft: contexte, pretexte, texte (Masters dissertation, Universite Laval, Canada. In French with short English abstract).