22 Sunday Aug 2010
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
Gallery Nucleus in California has a Lovecraft exhibition scheduled to open in October 2010…
And they have one of the nicest-looking gallery websites I’ve seen for a long time, although the fonts used are far too fuzzy and also a little too small…
Looks like they’re at the pop surrealism / lowbrow / fantastique end of the market.
22 Sunday Aug 2010
100 pages, 18,000 words. Buy this book (PayPal accepted).
22 Sunday Aug 2010
Posted in Podcasts etc.
Cthulhuwho1 posts a complete and new Reading of The Fungi from Yoggoth, read by William Hart.
21 Saturday Aug 2010
Posted in Historical context
The full scanned copy of A Sumero-Babylonian sign list; to which is added an Assyrian sign list, and a catalogue of the numerals, weights and measures used at various periods (1918)…
Variants on Cthulhu, plus Dagon and Shig. Dagon predates the 1918 book, of course, and also appears in Milton and the Bible…
Dagon in Milton — “Dagon his name, sea monster, upward man And downward fish”, Milton, Paradise Lost. Milton had it from the Bible — “the Philistines took the Ark of God and … brought it into the house of Dagon, and set it by Dagon”, Samuel 5.1-7.
20 Friday Aug 2010
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
Selections from Lovecraft’s brief tenure as a copywriter for a candy maker…
Chocolate Cherry Cordial
You must not think me mad when I tell you what I found below the thin shell of chocolate used to disguise this bonbon’s true face. Yes! Hidden beneath its rich exterior is a hideously moist cherry cordial! What deranged architect could have engineered this non-Euclidean aberration? I dare not speculate.
[ Hat-tip: Brian Keene ]
20 Friday Aug 2010
Posted in Historical context, Podcasts etc.
Will Hart (cthulhuwho1) celebrates Lovecraft’s 120th Birthday in style by releasing an ultra-rare tape-to-MP3 conversion of a 1978 World Science Fiction panel discussion…
“163 minutes with Professor Dirk W. Mosig, Professor Donald R. Burleson, J. Vernon Shea, Fritz Leiber, Jr., and S.T. Joshi”
The topic is: “What if Lovecraft had lived into the 1960s?”.
20 Friday Aug 2010
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
The Vancouver Film School has a new Flickr set for their green-screen production of five stories by Lovecraft.
20 Friday Aug 2010
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
My new finished portrait. Click on the image for the full-size 1090 x 1200px image. Many thanks to the Powerhouse Museum (man’s torso) and Tracey Olson (mist-tentacles) for the Creative Commons elements.
19 Thursday Aug 2010
Posted in Historical context, Lovecraftian arts, New discoveries
Ernst Haeckel’s prints of the small and microscopic biological specimens collected by the British HMS Challenger expedition, printed in book form in 1904, can be found on Wikimedia…
Some of the plates may have been an inspiration to Lovecraft, especially in relation to the look of the Elder Things (Old Ones) and their Shoggoths.
19 Thursday Aug 2010
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
Now on at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia in the USA, Creatures of the Abyss (to 6th September 2010). It sounds rather kiddy-oriented and thus likely to be over-run by little monsters and their mothers, but it’s said to have…
“Full-scale models, preserved specimens, exploration vehicles, and a bioluminescence theater”.
… and there are some (presumably) kid-free evening openings.
It’s accompanied at the same venue by the exhibition A Many-Colored Glass: Ethereal Images of Microscopic Marine Life — the catalogue for which is available via print-on-demand at Blurb.
An illustration for At the Mountains of Madness? No, it’s a scientific photomicrograph of some ascorbic acid and liquid crystalline xanthin gum. (Not part of the exhibition).
If you’re in London, England, then the Natural History Museum has the similar major summer exhibition The Deep (to 5th September 2010). Review with photos
18 Wednesday Aug 2010
Posted in Historical context, Lovecraftian arts
A new Monster Talk podcast: “Cryptozoology & Science, Part 1“…
“What is cryptozoology? Is it science? Is it folklore? Does it make predictions? In part 1 of a 2-part series, MonsterTalk examines cryptozoology as a field, including speculation on the cryptids most likely to turn out to be real. Guest Dr. Darren Naish, paleontologist and science blogger, makes some surprising statements about the field, its role in science and culture, and the intersection of amateur and professional science.”
Illustration: “Basilisks, Dragonelles and Dragonettes from the Neville Colmore Collection”, part of the Colmore Fatagravures.
18 Wednesday Aug 2010
Posted in Historical context
“Pre-orders are being accepted via eBay for The Fantasy Fan, which will be published next month. This hardcover volume features the complete run of all 18 issues, dating from September 1933 to February 1935, and contains original published stories and poems by Weird Tales authors Robert E. Howard, Clark Ashton Smith, H. P. Lovecraft, and others. […] The publication was the first weird fiction fanzine.”
