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.
15 Saturday Oct 2011
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
The new issue of the Lovecraft e-zine is now available: table of contents | buy.
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.
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).”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
06 Thursday Oct 2011
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
Imps in the machinery at the British Fantasy Awards, Best Novel winner returns her prize…