More Lovecraftian places that really exist

15 Friday Jun 2012

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More Lovecraftian places that really exist…


Kanheri Caves, India. (Credit: HelveticaNormal)


Structure built for bats, Key West, USA. (Credit: Jrau272)


Fingal’s Cave, British Isles. (Credit: Jim Richardson / National Geographic magazine)


Whinlatter, British Isles. (Credit: Eliot Reeves)


Alpine ice cave, Aiguille du Midi, Europe. (Credit: Kamil Tamiola)


Abandoned house, North Brother Island, USA. (Credit: unknown)

Horacio Lalia

09 Saturday Jun 2012

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Argentinian comics artist Horacio Lalia (Judge Dredd, The Time Machine, Lovecraft) is licencing some of his Lovecraft adaptations…

During his career her has adapted…

“The Nameless City, The Rats in the Walls, The Festival, He, Out of Time, The Unnamable, Dagon, The Alchemist, The Colour Out of Space, The Haunter of the Dark, The Outsider, Pickman’s Model, The Call of Cthulhu, The Moon-Bog, The Dreams in the Witch House, In the Vault, The Mystery of the Grave-Yard, The Ghost-Eater and Cool Air.”

According to Amazon his adaptations were collected in a 2003 book, but it was in French. This is reportedly only 93 pages, so perhaps doesn’t include all of them. There also seems to have been two Spanish language collections Lovecraft: El Grimorio Maldito and Lovecraft: El Manuscrito Olvidado. There’s no English Lalia Lovecraft collection that I can find, although his adaptation of “The Festival” is possibly available in English for the iPad (the description page is very confused about what the product actually is).

Little Fugitive (1953)

01 Friday Jun 2012

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Little Fugitive (1953), an innovative child’s-eye movie shot with a new type of portable 35mm movie camera on the streets of Brooklyn and Coney Island in summer 1952 — which must then have still been recognisable as the place Lovecraft knew just over twenty years earlier. (Yes, nit-pickers, Lovecraft visited and enjoyed Coney Island several times). The movie has been restored by the Museum of Modern Art. Not to be confused with the 2006 remake.

Conference: ‘Weird Lovecraft: H.P. Lovecraft, Weird Tales, and the American Horror Canon’

22 Tuesday May 2012

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News of an upcoming academic conference (or perhaps a conference strand?) on Lovecraft, to be held in Vermont — Weird Lovecraft: H.P. Lovecraft, Weird Tales, and the American Horror Canon…

“The College of St. Joseph is actively looking for paper proposals that explore the way that Lovecraft and/or Weird Tales helped construct the American horror canon or the American horrific aesthetic.”

“Papers will be presented at the College of St. Joseph’s popular culture conference, held 26-27th October 2012.”

See the PDF for details. Sadly, I see that the deadline for abstacts has passed — it was 15th May. Better initial publicity needed, next time, methinks.