20 Monday Aug 2012
Posted in Scholarly works
Added to the Open Lovecraft page, listing Lovecraft scholarship freely available online…
* Patricia MacCormack (2007), “Baroque Intensity: Lovecraft, Le Fanu and the Fold”, Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies, No.2, March 2007.
* Leandro Antonio de Almeida (2005), “Reflexoes sobre aspectos da obra de H.P. Lovecraft”, Organon, Vol.19, No.38-39. (French analysis of “Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family” and “The Lurking Fear”).
20 Monday Aug 2012
Posted in Housekeeping
Added to the ‘Lovecraft on the Web’ Directory, the French Forum Lovecraft.
20 Monday Aug 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
Kara Whittman has released a cool hollow safe book, laser-cut out of a Lovecraft hardback collection The Black Seas of Infinity… although you can currently pick up the hardback for $2 on Amazon USA, and with a steel ruler and a scalpel carve your own.
20 Monday Aug 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
It’s Mr. H.P. Lovecraft’s 122nd birthday! So far, sugarcrafted cakes seem to be the art medium of choice. Chud has an excellent round-up of Lovecraft-themed cakes.
Above: sugarcraft by Cake Amsterdam.
Jason McKittrick has a limited edition statuette, available only today — a sea-worn Cthulhu, as if just dredged from the ocean.
A morning literary walk in Providence.
Facebook suggests there’ll be an informal gathering at the grave marker in Providence today.
I’ve made a free annotated version of Lovecraft’s “The History of the Necronomicon”.
There’s a birthday art show at a gallery in Seattle.
Also various film sceenings and parties in America and the UK.
Possibly more to come, once the Americans get their first coffee of the day in about six hours from now.
19 Sunday Aug 2012
Posted in Odd scratchings
Excellent news for Amazon UK buyers of printed books, when those books are too big to fit through your letterbox or require a signature (I Am Providence or one one of the doorstop mythos anthologies springs to mind). Amazon is to roll out nationwide a “collect your parcel from a trusted local shop” service.
19 Sunday Aug 2012
Posted in Odd scratchings
Those interested in the poor state of science journalism in the mainsteam media, might like the MIT Science Journalism Tracker blog from MIT. This is devoted to winkling out the gee!-gosh!-ery and holding it up to the light.
18 Saturday Aug 2012
In Lovecraft had had a Lovecraftmobile….
18 Saturday Aug 2012
Posted in Odd scratchings
It had to happen. A Lovecraft perfume selection, courtest of the Black Pheonix Alchemy Lab of the eldritch town of… err… North Hollywood. Their A Picnic in Arkham page lists all their Lovecraft scents. The marketing pitch is bit off: no pictures of the bottles, and eye-achingly miniscule type for the descriptions. Possibly that’s because the bottles are, frankly, a little naff looking…
Incidentally, eBay has just banned the sale of magic spells, potions, and curses along with other psychic and prayer mumbo-jumbo. Although perfumes and scented candle schlock can still be sold. Oh, and Etsy has also banned sales of items that include “human remains or body parts”. Eww.
17 Friday Aug 2012
Posted in Historical context, New discoveries, Scholarly works
Since Lovecraft’s birthday falls on a Monday this year, I’m releasing my ‘122nd birthday present’ a few days early, so readers can peruse it over the weekend. Enjoy Lovecraft’s 1927 essay “The History of the Necronomicon“, annotated by myself with 6,900 words of scholarly footnotes…
17 Friday Aug 2012
Posted in New books, Scholarly works
The new 2012 edition of the Lovecraft Annual scholarly journal is now available, from Hippocampus Press. $15 with free shipping. Including:
Anna Klein, “Misperceptions of Malignity: Narrative Form and the Threat to America’s Modernity in “The Shadow over Innsmouth””.
Gavin Callaghan, “Elementary, My Dear Lovecraft: H.P. Lovecraft and Sherlock Holmes.”
15 Wednesday Aug 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, Odd scratchings
“The root bridges, some of which are over a hundred feet long, take ten to fifteen years to become fully functional, but they’re extraordinarily strong […] some of the ancient root bridges used daily by the people of the villages around Cherrapunji may be well over 500 years old.”
Health-and-safety commissars in the West would no doubt have a fit over the idea of these in the USA or UK. But one wonders if the same techniques could be used by artists to create giant Cthulhu-esque living structures? It’d certainly go way beyond a timid weaving of willow-wands.
13 Monday Aug 2012
Posted in Scholarly works
Added to the Open Lovecraft page…
Wouter J. Hanegraaff (2007), “Fiction in the Desert of the Real: Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos”, Aries 7, pp.85-109.
Related to this essay’s theme of the French interpretation of Lovecraft are two blog articles by Jason Colavito: “Pauwels, Bergier, and Lovecraft”; and “Lovecraft themes in Bergier’s later work”.