Lovecraft in Historical Context 3 – now an ebook for your Kindle

31 Tuesday Jul 2012

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I’m pleased to say that my new book, Lovecraft in Historical Context: a third collection of essays and notes, is now available for the Kindle ebook reader, in the USA and the UK.

This was a 12-hour hand-coding job, with four passes of proof-reading on an actual Kindle, and is not an automatic conversion. There is a linked table-of-contents, and the footnotes are fully interactive “round trip” links.

The ebook is also available for the Kindle in Germany and Italy.

A 120-page print edition is also available, for those who prefer print. This print edition link will also get you to the table-of-contents and a PDF sample.

Conference – Gothic: Culture, Subculture, Counterculture

31 Tuesday Jul 2012

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A forthcoming conference: “Gothic: Culture, Subculture, Counterculture“, 8th-9th March 2013 at St Mary’s University College, Twickenham and Strawberry Hill House, London.

“This conference, held in the Gothic mansion at Strawberry Hill, west London, will interrogate the many and varied cultures of the Gothic that were largely set in train by the owner of this mansion, Horace Walpole, in the mid-eighteenth century.”

Wedgwood Steventon

30 Monday Jul 2012

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I’m pleased to say that one of the many little galleries in my city is having an exhibition of surrealist paintings likely to interest Lovecraft fans. Wedgwood Steventon’s solo show launches at Artwaves gallery in Stoke-on-Trent on Friday 3rd of August 2012 (7pm-9pm). The exhibition will run from 4th-18th Aug, between 11am-4pm daily (closed Sundays).

Wedgwood Steventon is based locally, but until now has mostly shown internationally. “A collection of works on paper and canvas, personal experiences of an existence in 21st Century England (and Beyond) : a Gathering of Nightmares, Truths and Dares.”

New book – Lovecraft in Historical Context: a third collection

30 Monday Jul 2012

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I’m pleased to say that the print edition of my annual essays collection is now available for purchase!

Lovecraft in Historical Context: a third collection of essays and notes. 25,000 words, and many illustrations. 120 pages, as a 6″ x 9″ paperback. Buy it here.

Contains expanded, polished, and copiously footnoted/referenced versions of my recent draft essays and short notes. Plus new essays that are exclusive to the print edition.

1. Who was “Harley Warren”?
2. Who were the Blatschkas?
3. Lovecraft’s telescope.
4. Lovecraft’s camera.
5. Edison’s virtual ‘visit’ to Providence, 1896, a source for “Nyarlathotep”.
6. Missing : the Sentinel of Lovecraft’s Sentinel Hill.
7. Running down Danforth, at the Paterson Museum.
8. Neutaconkanut : Lovecraft’s last summer walk.
9. What could Lovecraft and his circle have known of Doctor John Dee?
10. Locating “The Mound”.
11. Some covers of The All-Story.
12. Mirrored : reflections on Lovecraft’s reflections.
13. Ten examples of tentacular propaganda, 1881-1910s.
14. A real horror : on the 1918 flu pandemic in Providence.
And more…!

I hope to produced a hand-coded Kindle ebook edition at some point soon.

Enjoy!

Church of Starry Wisdom library catalog

28 Saturday Jul 2012

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An interesting new book project, coming in Fall 2013. A supposed sale-catalogue of books from the private occult library of the Church of Starry Wisdom of Providence, on their disbanding in 1877…

Including short bibliographic and historical essays on the books, by “noted scholars“. You’ll remember of course that Lovecraft’s “The Haunter of the Dark” (1935) had the hero discovering the remains of the library in 1938.

Lovecraft in Weird Tales, the monstrous facsimile!

25 Wednesday Jul 2012

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Got a spare $200+, and looking for the coolest Xmas present? The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society has a two-volume set of facsimiles of all Lovecraft’s Weird Tales appearances…

“These two volumes reprint in facsimile all of Lovecraft’s writings in Weird Tales: original tales, collaborations, poems and letters to ye editor. Volume One covers October 1923—July 1924, and is an oversized edition of 52 pages; Volume Two (November 1924—September 1952) is 568 pages!”

   [ Hat-tip: Wimum Pugmire ]