03 Tuesday Apr 2012
Posted in Scholarly works
A seemingly new (Nov 2011) short scholarly paper, in French. Reflets de villes dans le désert : de Lovecraft a Borges (“Reflections of cities in the desert: Lovecraft to Borges”)…
“There is a traditional conception of the fantastic city. It rises in the Gothic novel, and has been perpetuated in the modern horror, imposing an urban topography across two or three levels — articulated as a social reality, a visceral fear, and as a symbolic expression.”
02 Monday Apr 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
A blast from the past. An early Richard Corben B&W ‘underground’ strip from 1972, adapting “The Rats in the Walls”…
01 Sunday Apr 2012
Posted in New books
The first issue of the new Weird Tales is now available…
31 Saturday Mar 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
Innsmouth Free Press interviews Jason Voss, one of the concept artists on The Whisperer in Darkness.
30 Friday Mar 2012
Posted in Odd scratchings
Very fab full-functional iMac for sale on Etsy for $3,000. Definitively one for the Lovecraftian author…
30 Friday Mar 2012
Posted in Historical context
Four new Lovecraft letters discovered and currently for sale on eBay with full transcriptions…
“Regarding copyrights – I never bothered with such things. The chances of pirating are really very remote & when a piece is professionally published, the magazine holds the copyrights [for the] “First North American Serial Rights Only.” This means that you are selling only the first printing. If an anthology copies the piece or if the magazine decides to reprint it, more pay is due you — though re-sale prices seldom equal those for a first printing. Re-sales sometimes (illegible) up quite impressively — my “Erich Zann”, for instance has been used six times in America and England. ” — letter to the young Robert Nelson, 16th January 1935.
28 Wednesday Mar 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
Preview of the poster for the 2012 HPL Film Festival…
27 Tuesday Mar 2012
Posted in 3D, Lovecraftian arts
A comprehensive survey of low-cost 3D models available for your classic “brain in the jar” scene, as seen in many a mad scientist lab.
27 Tuesday Mar 2012
Posted in New books
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath graphic novel is available and shipping now. A $50 bundle for the hardback edition also gets you a 24″ x 36″ roll-tube full-colour poster of the Dreamlands.
27 Tuesday Mar 2012
Now in stock and shipping. A collection of stories Lovecraft is known to have especially admired, presented as a $50 limited-edition hardback…
Contents:
Introduction by S.T. Joshi
Idle Days on the Yann by Lord Dunsany
Fragments from the Journal of a Solitary Man by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Man Who Went Too Far by E.F. Benson
The Mark of the Beast by Rudyard Kipling
The Sin-Eater by Fiona Macleod
The House of Sounds by M.P. Shiel
The Phantom Farmhouse by Seabury Quinn
One of Cleopatra’s Nights by Theophile Gautier
The Stranger from Kurdistan by E. Hoffmann Price
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar by Edgar Allan Poe
Novel of the White Powder by Arthur Machen
The Dead Smile by F. Marion Crawford
The Ghost of Fear by H.G. Wells
Lukundoo by Edward Lucas White
Bells of Oceana by Arthur J. Burks
The Wind in the Portico by John Buchan
27 Tuesday Mar 2012
Posted in Historical context, New discoveries
[ Hat-tip: R.E.H.: two-gun raconteur ]
27 Tuesday Mar 2012
Posted in New books
With publishers on the lookout for SF again, the anthology Future Lovecraft has been picked up for reprinting with a view to major bookstore distribution…
Future Lovecraft Will Return… as a trade paperback. Future Lovecraft, originally published by Innsmouth Free Press and edited by me and Paula R. Stiles, is being reprinted by Prime Books. It will be available August 2012 in all sales channels. What does this mean? Brick-and-mortar sales. You’ll be able to walk into your Barnes & Noble or favourite indie store and pick a copy.
It’s already listed for pre-order on Amazon UK, which would seem to show that Prime is a publisher with some savvy. You can also currently get a Kindle edition for a bargain £2.49 in the UK.
