News in from Wilum Pugmire, who had it from S.T. Joshi…
“I Am Providence is coming out in a trade paperback edition, probably late this year.”
I Am Providence, trade paperback due late 2012
26 Monday Mar 2012
Posted in New books, Scholarly works
Colour Out of Space – radio adapation
26 Monday Mar 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, Podcasts etc.
A blast from the past. The Atlanta Radio Theatre Company’s radio adaptation of “The Colour Out of Space” (MP3)…
Tentacles Lamp
25 Sunday Mar 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
Tentacles Lamp at Get Bent Metal…
Lovecraft in New York
23 Friday Mar 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
A bit of ‘Lovecraft in New York’ art that I hadn’t seen before. On the cover of the pamphlet The Private Life Of H. P. Lovecraft (Necronomicon Press, 1992)…
BBC Magazine on Lovecraft
22 Thursday Mar 2012
Posted in Odd scratchings
The BBC Magazine today has a long article by Ramsey Campbell, attempting to explain Lovecraft to the uninitiated.
Dagon emerges
21 Wednesday Mar 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
A comic book of Lovecraft’s “Dagon”, crowdfunded on Kickstarter in 2011, is now available.
Interview with the artist, here.
Lovecraft at EC
21 Wednesday Mar 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
What if… Lovecraft had lived, and been taken up as a comic book writer by EC Comics in the mid 1950s…?
All-Story in the 1910s
20 Tuesday Mar 2012
Posted in Historical context
All-Story covers, from the 1910s run of this proto-pulp. One can see why these story magazines might have appealed to the young Lovecraft, who was an avid reader of them…
These covers were taken from a ERBzine survey of appearances of Edgar Rice Burroughs stories. More might be found, from a complete run of cover images of the 1910s.
Another Lovecraftian fiction anthology on the way…
19 Monday Mar 2012
Posted in New books
Another door-stopper Lovecraftian fiction anthology announced…
Cthulhu app
18 Sunday Mar 2012
Posted in Odd scratchings
An inevitable doom creeps toward the unsuspecting world of the smartphonifiers and appytwitterers… The Cthulhu app awakes.
Madness Immemorial
16 Friday Mar 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
The Green Hand Bookshop, hailing out of Portland in the USA, has a nice set of images of works in their current gallery show Madness Immemorial: a tribute to H.P. Lovecraft. Last year I published a book on Lovecraft and New York, so the picture “Lovecraft in Brooklyn” by Brandon Kawashima was especially appealing to me…
S.T. Joshi’s blog updates
16 Friday Mar 2012
Posted in New books, Scholarly works
A new blog post was made yesterday by S.T. Joshi…
“I was pleased to be asked by Scarecrow Press to initiate a series of scholarly or academic books on weird fiction. The series will, I believe, be called The Literature of the Supernatural.”
And the much-anticipated ‘heavily illustrated’ version of the biography, H.P. Lovecraft: Nightmare Countries, seems to be progressing well. I’m certainly really champing at the bit for that one.
[ Hat-tip: Wilum Pugmire ]