More Lovecraft theatre. UCLA Theatre Studies alumni will return to a site near their old campus to perform H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Unnamable” in a graveyard.

21 Friday Oct 2011
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
More Lovecraft theatre. UCLA Theatre Studies alumni will return to a site near their old campus to perform H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Unnamable” in a graveyard.

21 Friday Oct 2011
Posted in New books
Nth Dimension Media has launched the ‘new’ Weird Tales, with a nicely retro cover…

“The new Weird Tales will be open to nearly all sorts of genre fiction, including absurdist humor, fantasy, horror, mystery and surrealism.”
21 Friday Oct 2011
Posted in New books, Podcasts etc., Scholarly works
S.T. Joshi’s blog has updated with a long post on his activities, including a link to a 10-minute MP3 interview between a Penguin Classics Editor, Elda Rotor, and Joshi. The second half of the podcast is a del Toro interview.
I found his mention of this forthcoming book especially interesting…
“John C. Tibbetts’s The Gothic Imagination (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), a substantial collection of interviews with past and current figures in the horror field.”
It seems The Gothic Imagination will be shipping in a few weeks.
[ Hat-tip: Wilum Pugmire ]
20 Thursday Oct 2011
Posted in Astronomy, Historical context
The Brown Herald steps inside the Ladd Observatory…
“A multitude of eyes have peered through the 15-foot telescope in the past 120 years, including those of H.P. Lovecraft — who had his own key to the observatory — local teachers, students and professors.”
ePics has a nice Creative Commons Flickr set of the interior…

19 Wednesday Oct 2011
Posted in New books
Neil Gaiman reads the whole of his macabre children’s novel The Graveyard Book, free on Mouse Circus. Love the idea of going on a book reading tour, reading each chapter to a different audience, then putting video of all the readings on a combined website for a complete book reading.
19 Wednesday Oct 2011
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, New books
Where The Deep Ones Are. Another fab cultural re-mix of lovely Lovecraftian hybridity. This one mashes Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are with Lovecraft’s “The Shadow Over Innsmouth”. Wired magazine has the full story.

18 Tuesday Oct 2011
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
Innsmouth Magazine #8 is now available, with a lovely cover and new Kindle version (USA & UK) and an ePub version on Smashwords.

17 Monday Oct 2011
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
An interesting-sounding new comic, announced at the NYC ComicCon, called Fatale.

Fatale is Lovecraftian horror noir — or “noirror”. A reporter in 2012 stumbles on a secret that leads him down the darkest path imaginable… to a seductive woman who’s been on the run since 1935, a mobster who may be an immortal demon monster, and the stories of all the doomed men who’ve been caught in their decades-long struggle. Fatale blends noir and horror to tell a riveting epic unlike anything you’ve seen before.
It’s a massive 12-parter that’s set to ship its first issue in January 2012. Which presumably means it’ll inevitably mutate into a chunky graphic novel weighing in at around 280 pages.

17 Monday Oct 2011
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
The Whisperer in Darkness movie premieres in White River Junction, Vermont at a special flood benefit screening, with a special talk about Lovecraft’s Vermont trip (the flooding there in the 1920s partly inspired the story) and a prop auction. The film’s makers have also donated three miniature sets to the White River Junction museum which is an interesting-sounding…
“eclectic display space for material culture and an experiment in a new taxonomy. Originally thought of as an “alternative” museum, the museum’s present form and activities resemble the 18th and 19th century “cabinet of curiosities” and point to an interest in the historic roots of museums and museology.”
17 Monday Oct 2011
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, New books
Phantasmagorium, a new horror fiction e-zine. Edited by Laird Barron. $4.99. No Kindle edition, but you can probably do a basic auto-convert of the ePub with the free Calibre software (my tutorial is here). A print-on-demand edition is said to be due soon.

16 Sunday Oct 2011
Posted in Historical context
Where The Wild Boys Are has an interesting new essay comparing the predjudiced responses to New York made by Henry James and Lovecraft.
15 Saturday Oct 2011
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
Sun Break elegantly plucks some quivering gobbets of juicyness from the Lovecraft’s Visions event at the Seattle Art Museum.