11 Friday Feb 2011
Posted in Historical context, Lovecraftian arts, New books
Substantial new New Yorker interview / profile article on Guillermo del Toro’s quest to film At The Mountains of Madness…
Incidentally, my 2010 book of essays on Lovecraft’s Mountains, Ice Cores, should be available on the Amazon Kindle Store within the next 48 hours. Hand-coded, four passes of fresh proofreading for this new edition, and with a linked table-of-contents…
09 Wednesday Feb 2011
Posted in Unnamable
Weirdletter has just published a long review (Google Translate link) of Houellebecq’s biography of Lovecraft.
08 Tuesday Feb 2011
Posted in Historical context, Scholarly works
A new Spanish-language journal of science-fiction, Sci-Fdi : Revista de ciencia ficcion. Three issues so far, and the articles include one on Ray Bradbury’s stint with EC’s horror comics, 1951-1954, during which time 27 of Bradbury’s stories were closely adapted by Al (Albert B.) Feldstein. Initially pirated, but Bradbury was a comics fan and so he eventually found out and asked for a fee. He got it, to EC’s credit.
05 Saturday Feb 2011
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, Odd scratchings
Heh.
30 Sunday Jan 2011
Posted in Historical context, Scholarly works
The Colby Quarterly may be of interest to those seeking to place Lovecraft in the wider context of New England writers. The full-text of the journal is now online for free, 1943-2003. The journal…
“solicited [articles] on Maine authors and Maine history, including books and authors that had influenced Maine life and letters [and as the journal expanded to cover a wider range of English literature] The special interest in Maine and regional history and literature was maintained, now including the neighboring provinces of Canada”
18 Tuesday Jan 2011
Posted in New books, Odd scratchings
After surviving four months in the cargo hold of an Atlantic tramp steamer crewed by swivel-eyed Norwegians (or so it seemed, judging by how long it was taking)… it arriveth!
The two volumes of I Am Providence by S.T. Joshi.
11 Tuesday Jan 2011
MythosCon 2011 reports:—
MythosCon 2011 Report & Photos
Fab photo of Robert M. Price. If he’d have made this Creative Commons I’d have cut Robert out and composited him over a spooky CG background.
Please let there be podcasts for the Brits…
04 Tuesday Jan 2011
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
Grim Reviews rounds up some of the Lovecraft biography book-covers, with a short essay.
Here are some addition covers not on the Grim Reviews page…
And although it’s not technically a biography, this cover from Panther Books (UK) in the 1970s is hard to beat…
04 Tuesday Jan 2011
Posted in New books, Scholarly works
Sigh. It seems my copy of S.T. Joshi’s magnum opus Lovecraft biography I Am Providence: The Life and Times of H. P. Lovecraft is still in the USA. I had a shipping notification on 28th October 2010, and had hoped it might be in my hands in the UK by Christmas. But I just checked the despatch number, and the system says it’s only just been accepted in the New York depot. Possibly in a crypt in the Red Hook district.
Incidentally, the book is now listed on Amazon USA ($100.00 from Amazon with free shipping). Perhaps it might have been quicker to wait for the Amazon listing, and then (assuming there are copies in their warehouse) rely on Amazon’s generally quite speedy service for the transatlantic shipping.
28 Tuesday Dec 2010
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
“Anomaly” (2008).
16 Thursday Dec 2010
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
The LA Times reports that del Toro is one step closer to a real green light for At The Mountains of Madness. He and Cameron (Avatar) have had a summit meeting with the suits at Universal, showing them concepts, monster models, and a revised script…
“He [Cameron] pointed out one thing that was big. I’ve been thinking about this for 35 years, and he pointed out something I’d never seen [in the script].”
Toro also said he was “rewriting and rewriting” and was considering “unexpected” casting choices if the big-name stars backed out or proved too expensive for the Universal suits. If the movie and its huge budget is green-lighted — presumably after Christmas, then Toro could start shooting as early as June 2011.
And a special tie-in graphic novel featuring Tintin! (Er, no… actually it’s a spoof by UK artist Murray Groat).
02 Thursday Dec 2010
Posted in Podcasts etc.
MythosCon is coming up fast: Jan 6th – 9th 2011. Can I urge the making of audio podcasts of the panel discussions, for distribution after the event to those who can’t get to the USA?