09 Friday Dec 2011
Posted in New books, Scholarly works
Vague news of a new S.T. Joshi project — H.P. Lovecraft: Nightmare Countries is apparently set to be a heavily illustrated life of Lovecraft, something which previous biographies have not really been able to do. Publisher’s Marketplace reports it has sold to a publishing house.
“is illustrated with photographs, documents, and other images and telling the story of Lovecraft’s life”
07 Wednesday Dec 2011
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, New books
Innsmouth Free Press has the guidelines online for the anthology of short fiction titled Fungi…
“Fungi is an anthology of dark speculative fiction (horror, fantasy, science fiction, and any other variant, such as steampunk) focused solely on the fungal.”
Don’t forget that most of the fungi is down below ground, and what we see as toadstools and mushrooms are just the fruiting bodies. I also discuss bio-luminous slime molds at length in my long essay on the sources and wider historical contexts of Lovecraft’s “The Colour out of Space”, to be found in my Lovecraft in Historical Context: Further Essays and Notes (2011).
Above: Sea Anemone Stinkhorn (Aseroë Rubra), native Australian fungi.
07 Wednesday Dec 2011
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
An interesting-sounding new short film from Jeremy Lutter and Ben Rollo, Joanna Makes a Friend…
“when Joanna, a lonely nine-year-old girl, is ostracized by the other kids at school due to her love of the macabre and a fascination with Edgar Allan Poe and H. P. Lovecraft, she ends up making a robot friend out of spare VCR parts in her father’s garage.”
Funded by a $115,000 award from the Motion Picture Production Industry Association, and also IndieGoGo crowd-funding.
06 Tuesday Dec 2011
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
A free seven page preview of IDW’s comic book adaptation of Lovecraft’s “The Dunwich Horror”…
05 Monday Dec 2011
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
Czech artist Petr Augustin is making a Web video series of H.P. Lovecraft’s story “The Rats In The Walls”. He’s using a combination of his hand-drawings, cut-outs, and simple motion-comics -like animation…
[vimeo 28142735]
04 Sunday Dec 2011
Posted in Odd scratchings
Lovecraft’s Brooklyn is thriving again.
02 Friday Dec 2011
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society is now taking pre-orders for the DVD version of their feature-length The Whisperer in Darkness movie.
01 Thursday Dec 2011
Posted in Historical context
The Newtown Pentangle has fine photographs of the Flatbush Dutch Reformed churchyard and graves in Brooklyn…
Photo: Mitch Waxman
The churchyard is the location for Lovecraft’s “The Hound”. Also a key site of his nocturnal investigations…
“That evening Kleiner and I investigated the principal antiquity of this section — the old Dutch Reformed Church — and were well repaid for our quest.”
[ Hat-tip: Danny Callaghan ]
30 Wednesday Nov 2011
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, Odd scratchings
“Bow before your future robo-tentacle overlords…”
30 Wednesday Nov 2011
Posted in New books
New Critical Essays on H.P. Lovecraft is the title of a new book set for publication in 2012 by major publisher Palgrave Macmillan.
29 Tuesday Nov 2011
Posted in New books
Got shrooms? Innsmouth Free Press have pre-announced a new anthology based around fungi…
Full guidelines for the anthology will be posted in December (Don’t send anything, yet!). […] Fungi will be released by Innsmouth Free Press as a special edition hardcover, paperback and e-book. Look for it in October of 2012
Above: from Matango (1963, aka Attack of the Mushroom People)
28 Monday Nov 2011
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
As a devotee of the ice-cream parlour, Lovecraft might have appreciated these on a hot day in New York.