Comic Book Resources reviews the “young Lovecraft” adventure Howard Lovecraft and the Undersea Kingdom…
Undersea Kingdom review
15 Wednesday Feb 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
Midnight Tides and Lovecraftian Gods
14 Tuesday Feb 2012
Posted in Unnamable
An interesting illustrated new fannish article on Looping Wor(l)ds, “Midnight Tides and Lovecraftian Gods”. While ploughing through Steven Erikson’s ten-book fantasy series The Malazan Book Of The Fallen, the author of the article muses on the nature of the shoreline and sea, and the persistent human imagination regarding supposed god-like entities lurking in the deeps…
The Street
12 Sunday Feb 2012
Posted in Podcasts etc.
Audio book reading of Lovecraft’s “The Street” (1919), well read and paced in a 15 minute reading by Sean Puckett.
Above: Joseph Margulies, “New England Street Scene”.
Secret Service run now on Google Books
11 Saturday Feb 2012
Posted in Historical context
What seems to be the complete run of the Secret Service dime novel magazine (1899-1912, home of the Bradys) is now available in full-text via Google Books. The juvenile Lovecraft was an avid reader in the second half of its run. Search Google Books for: “Secret service” “bradys” -bunch The Bradys frequently ventured to Chinatown and its underground tunnels, into decaying swamp houses, at least once to the Arctic, several times to Africa, exposed numerous fraudluent magicians and spiritualists, and opium dealers — among other themes that Lovecraft fans will be familiar with.
Classics Illustrated
11 Saturday Feb 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
Electric Remington
10 Friday Feb 2012
Posted in Odd scratchings
Lovecraft’s Remington typewriter meets the 21st century, picture from dVice…
It’s a fully-functioning Mac PC, apparently…
John Coulthart
10 Friday Feb 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
New tentacular heraldry from John Coulthart…
What if…
09 Thursday Feb 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
What if… H.P. Lovecraft had lived into the 1960s and a local motorcycle club had made him a special honorary bike…
The Fantastic World of H.P. Lovecraft
08 Wednesday Feb 2012
Posted in New books
What seems to be a leading Brazilian website for Lovecraft, SiteLovecraft.com has a new book due soon, and the editors are now soliciting pre-orders for their 400-page The Fantastic World of H.P. Lovecraft [my translation of the title]…
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Elder Gods
08 Wednesday Feb 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
A new stage play, about to launch in Illinois, USA.
Ages of Madness
08 Wednesday Feb 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
Concept art for Helio Mira’s $16.8m million movie Ages of Madness, reportedly a…
“Catalonian [Spanish] production which is looking for a budget and it’s only in the concept stage.”
It would be an animated feature film that mashes up the history of The Necronomicon with what seems to be a reworking of the story of “The Call of Cthulhu”. A bit too big to crowd-fund, but I’d certainly pre-order the DVD if this has a chance of being made. Perhaps it should be a graphic novel, first?
The Queer Uncanny
07 Tuesday Feb 2012
Posted in New books, Scholarly works
Just published, The Queer Uncanny: New Perspectives on the Gothic is a book which examines queer fiction from 1980 to 2007. It joins last year’s The Lesbian Fantastic: A Critical Study of Science Fiction, Fantasy, Paranormal and Gothic Writings.