The new issue of the Lovecraft e-zine is now available: table of contents | buy.
Lovecraft e-zine out now
15 Saturday Oct 2011
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
The Rats in the Walls as theater
14 Friday Oct 2011
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
Lovecraft’s story “The Rats in the Walls” as a theater performance, on 21st and 28th of October 2011, at Black Creek Pioneer Village, Ontario, Canada.
Curiouser and curiouser
13 Thursday Oct 2011
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
Another slithering Lovecraft mashup/remix thing lurks on the doorstep. Alice in Wonderland vs. Cthulhu. No, really. It’s a graphic novel that’s already been funded on Kickstarter…
“The graphic novel tells the familiar tale of Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland as if the story was written by cult horror writer H.P. Lovecraft (At the Mountains of Madness, Call of Cthulhu, The Dunwich Horror).”
The New Death and others
13 Thursday Oct 2011
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, New books
The New Death and others by James Hutchings is a new Kindle book with 44 short stories and fragments, and a handful of new prose poems. Among these is a verse adaptation of Lovecraft’s “Under the Pyramids”. There are also verses and stories inspired by the works of Lord Dunsany, Clark Ashton Smith, and Robert E. Howard. I had a look at the first ten percent for free, which you can always get on a Kindle — and it must say it looks really very promising. Possibly from someone who seems to still be a young writer, judging from his blog? The first fragment, done in the Dunsany manner, was especially memorable. And I love how he describes cats in “How the Isle of Cats Got Its Name”…
“It is well known that cats have the ability to sense entrances to the infernal realms, and the desire to enter therein, in order that they may combat demons and devils. This explains why they spend so much time under houses, and why they often disappear, never to be seen again. At night they gather to share news of the things below.”
Some of the stories have been published online and are available at Daily Science Fiction and Fairy Tale magazine.
SF Gateway launches
11 Tuesday Oct 2011
Posted in New books
The SF Gateway site has launched, offering the Gollancz back-catalogue. L. Sprague de Camp’s Lovecraft: A Biography (the early, flawed biography, here in abridged form) is available. As with all the books, a 10% sample is available for the Kindle by clicking on the Amazon link (which they should actually re-title “Amazon Kindle”, for clarity)…
Great to see Keith Roberts with two titles in the top ten. No multi-author anthologies or Arkham House, that I can see.
Lovecraft via Dr. Seuss
10 Monday Oct 2011
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
Lovecraft done in the style of Dr. Seuss…
Unlike recent Tintin crossover art, the artist on these has also done the interior pages.
Lovecraft Unbound reviewed
08 Saturday Oct 2011
Lovecraft is Missing has a new review of Lovecraft Unbound (2009), an anthology of 20 Lovecraft-inspired stories. Judging from this, and a detailed Amazon breakdown of the contents, Marc Laidlaw’s “Leng” and Michael Chabon’s “In the Black Mill” sound like the stories I’d buy it for. The book can currently be picked up in used condition for $4 on Amazon U.S., including shipping. It’s not available for the Kindle.
Old World Radio
08 Saturday Oct 2011
Posted in Podcasts etc.
Old World Radio offers public-domain radio dramatisations from the 1950s, including classic science-fiction stories from the likes of Bradbury, Asimov, and Simak.
BFA upsets
06 Thursday Oct 2011
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
Imps in the machinery at the British Fantasy Awards, Best Novel winner returns her prize…
Dreams in the Witch House discussion wraps up
05 Wednesday Oct 2011
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, Podcasts etc.
The H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast has finished its three-part discussion of “The Dreams in the Witch House”, read by Dave Stinton. The only full reading I know of is by Morgan Scorpion, and I’ve looked hard for an alternative reading but not yet found one.
Robert Aickman
03 Monday Oct 2011
Posted in New books, Odd scratchings
Bookslut has a new appreciation of Sheridan Le Fanu and Robert Aickman. Robert Aickman is a new name to me, but he sounds fascinating. Sadly, he’s yet another author who can’t be purchased for the Kindle, despite being published in print by Faber and Faber (three print volumes: Cold Hand in Mine, The Wine-Dark Sea, The Unsettled Dust). You might think publishers wanted people to go get the pirated versions.
I was delighted to learn that the first story in Cold Hand in Mine is set in Wolverhampton. I’m always keen to find horror and fantasy stories that arise from my own West Midlands of England…
“The Swords” is one, a seedy [horror] tale of adolescence and first love, set against a grimy industrial background of Midlands Britain, replete with carnivals, snakemen and two-bit whorehouses.
Aickman also co-founded The Inland Waterways Association, along with L.T.C. Rolt, a grassroots organisation which so wonderfully restored the old canals of the Midlands.
Dandelion Wine to be filmed
03 Monday Oct 2011
Posted in Odd scratchings
Weird. Why can’t I buy any Ray Bradbury books on the Amazon Kindle store? Not a single one is listed, on either the USA or UK store. Does he despise ebooks? Or does he just have a lousy publisher these days?
Anyway, according to The Hollywood Reporter there’s a new planned cinema version of Dandelion Wine, with the 91 year-old Bradbury set to adapt the screenplay.
