Winner of the Astronomy Photography of the Year 2012 “Earth and Space” category… Nagano, Japan, pictured by Masahiro Miyasaka…
Orion, Taurus and the Pleiades
20 Thursday Sep 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
More weird Lovecraftian places
18 Tuesday Sep 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, Lovecraftian places
Shoggoth encounter? Nope, the Northern Lights filtering through ice, in the White Sea, the Arctic Circle. By the Irish photographer George Karbus.
Rock globules, Moeraki Beach, New Zealand. Photo by Sterling/Wikipedia.
Salar del Uni, Bolivia. Photographer unknown.
Guyaju caves, of unknown age and origin, China. Photographer unknown.
Fog rising in Lyndonville, Vermont. By NEKPhotography.
Abandoned vessel and Grain Terminal, Red Hook, New York. Photo, Alex Rabb.
The Color over Occam is published
18 Tuesday Sep 2012
Posted in New books
A novel-length and Joshi-endorsed sequel to “The Colour out of Space”, The Color over Occam is now available in hardback. The blurb and synopsis don’t appear to suggest that it’s anything special, but according to Joshi it’s…
“one of the finest horror novels of any sort written in the last 50 years” — S.T. Joshi.
The Radium Age
17 Monday Sep 2012
Posted in Scholarly works
Those who have paywall access to the prestigious science publication Nature may like to have a look at the two page article in the latest issue, “Science Fiction: the radium age” [1903-1934]… Nature 489, 13th September 2012, pp.204–205…
“Joshua Glenn explores the dark, fascinating, largely forgotten science fiction of the early twentieth century”
Lovecraft’s life as a graphic novel
16 Sunday Sep 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, Odd scratchings
Has anyone ever thought of doing Lovecraft’s life as a faithful graphic novel? It seems not. Just a thought, if anyone wants to run off with the idea. It occurred to me as I was thinking about how many in the amateur movement might have experienced opium dreams during the influenza epidemic of 1918-19 and during treatment for the other chronic diseases of the time, having been treated with opium by doctors.
Essay competition
16 Sunday Sep 2012
Posted in Scholarly works
The Bodley Head / Financial Times Essay Prize aims to…
“attract the best young talent in long-form essay writing. Open to writers aged 18 to 35, the competition prize is £1,000. Plus an e-publication with Bodley Head, and a mentoring session with a Bodley Head or a FT writer.”
China in London
16 Sunday Sep 2012
Posted in Scholarly works
I completely missed the news of the Weird Council: an International Conference on the Writing of China Mieville, which finished yesterday in London. But there’s news that an edited book collection of essays on China Mieville will come out in 2013, arising from the conference.
H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival
14 Friday Sep 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
The slate of movies for the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival has been released.
Above: from Richard Svensson’s Nightgaunts.
New digital Cthulhu for DAZ Studio
14 Friday Sep 2012
Posted in 3D, Lovecraftian arts
A new digital Cthulhu figure, of high quality, available now on the DAZ 3D Store. Pictures made with him are royalty-free. This 3D figure can be posed and rendered (i.e.: made into a still pictures) and even animated, if you have the free 3D software DAZ Studio…
Mythos size comparison chart
13 Thursday Sep 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
The largest version I can find, online… anyone know to find a big version and the name of the designer?
Three-Lobe Burning Eye
13 Thursday Sep 2012
Posted in New books
Another Three-Lobe Burning Eye zine (not to be confused with the forthcoming illustration-based zine-book). This one is a long-running magazine of speculative fiction. Web link added to this blog’s “Lovecraft on the Web” page, in Fiction Magazines.
Probing the tentacles of modern philosophy
12 Wednesday Sep 2012
Posted in New books, Scholarly works
William Koch has a detailed new review of Graham Harman’s new book Weird Realism: Lovecraft and Philosophy
“the book represents what seems [at first] to be an exceptionally idiosyncratic project, arguing that a position similar to the one [that the German poet] Holderlin fills for Heideggerian phenomenology should be occupied by H.P. Lovecraft for thinkers of Speculative Realism.”