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…
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.
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.
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.
03 Monday Oct 2011
Posted in New books, Odd scratchings
Here come the silly prices for mint first-edition hardback copies of Lord Of Visible World: Autobiography In Letters, now that the book is out-of-print…
01 Saturday Oct 2011
Posted in Odd scratchings
Tried to watch Trollhunter. Gave up a third of the way in. Note to film-makers: use of a shaky handheld camera may get you a tick in the ‘Trendy’ box at film-school, but in the real-world half your audience is puking with sea-sickness after the first twenty minutes.
01 Saturday Oct 2011
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
01 Saturday Oct 2011
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
