Original autochrome (photocrom) postcards from the public-domain archives:
[ Hat-tips: io9 and the Library of Congress ]
Postcards from the Mountains of Madness
11 Wednesday Aug 2010
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
An interesting portrait
11 Wednesday Aug 2010
Posted in Historical context
Probably not the Young Teen Lovecraft, but close. Similar mouth, ears, hairstyle. His eyes looks somewhat funny because he’s wearing glasses. Probably as close as we’ll ever get to seeing Lovecraft at age 14.
New Lovecraftian faux-postcard
10 Tuesday Aug 2010
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
Thanks to Jurvetson for the Creative Commons shell picture.
The Dew Mine
10 Tuesday Aug 2010
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
Lovecraftians might enjoy this one. A fictional “dew mine” in Sussex, England — rendered in a mix of 3D photorealistic rendered ‘photography’, maps, plans and sketches. Looks like an interesting place to set a new story…
Pre-Kong fantasy films
09 Monday Aug 2010
Posted in Films & trailers, Historical context
A new list of early fantasy/horror films that might have influenced Lovecraft…
King Kong – The Eighth Wonder Of The World [1933]
Frankenstein [1931]
Dracula [1931] ~ Bela Lugosi
Man Who Laughs, The (1928) ~ Mary Philbin
Metropolis [1927] ~ Brigitte Helm
Faust [1926] ~ Gosta Ekman
The Lost World [1925] ~ Wallace Beery
The Phantom Of The Opera [1925] ~ Lon Chaney
Hands of Orlac [1924] ~ Conrad Veidt
Die Nibelungen [1924]
Waxworks [1924] ~ Emil Jannings
The Hunchback of Notre Dame [1923] ~ Lon Chaney
Man From Beyond, The [1922] ~ Harry Houdini
Nosferatu [1921] ~ Max Schreck
Doctor Jekyll And Mr Hyde [1920] ~ John Barrymore III
The Phantom Carriage [1920] ~ Victor Sjostrom
Der Golem [1920] ~ Paul Wegener
Das Cabinet Des Dr Caligari [1919] ~ Werner Krauss
Le Voyage Dans La Lune
Fish people not on the menu
09 Monday Aug 2010
Posted in Films & trailers, Odd scratchings
Twitch has a new interview with Stuart Gordon and Jeffrey Combs, partly… “about the art of adapting H.P. Lovecraft for the big screen”…
“Originally I wanted to do ‘Dagon’ as the second film, but our distributor said : ‘People turning into fish? I don’t think so.’ “
H.P. Lovecraft search engine.
08 Sunday Aug 2010
Posted in Housekeeping
You can now search all the 250+ websites linked in my 2010 “Lovecraft on the web” directory (see below). I made a basic on-the-fly Google Custom Search Engine for all the links. It’s not as good as a proper Google CSE, but it’ll filter out most of the junk you’d pick up in a normal Google search.
After about three pages of custom results, you’ll be thrown back into the main Google search results. You may see Google’s AdWords ads, if you don’t run an ad-blocker add-on.
Lovecraft Annual 4
08 Sunday Aug 2010
Posted in Scholarly works
Hippocampus Press is listing the scholarly Lovecraft Annual No. 4 (August 2010) as available for their checkout.
Table of Contents:
Lovecraft’s “The Bride of the Sea” and the Uses of Bathos | Manuel Pérez-Campos
Following “The Ancient Track” | Jonathan Adams
Letters to Carl Ferdinand Strauch | H. P. Lovecraft
Appendix: A Library Goes Regionalist | Carl F. Strauch
The Construction of Race in the Early Poetry of H. P. Lovecraft | Phillip A. Ellis
The Ecstasies of “The Thing on the Doorstep,” “Medusa’s Coil,” and Other Erotic Studies | Robert H. Waugh
Notes on a Nonentity | H. P. Lovecraft
In Memoriam: Dr. Harry K. Brobst (1909–2010) | Christopher M. O’Brien
Time, Space, and Natural Law: Science and Pseudo-Science in Lovecraft | S. T. Joshi
Benefit Street on Street View
08 Sunday Aug 2010
Posted in Historical context
Benefit Street in Providence, on Google Street View…
Lovecraft’s jackets
08 Sunday Aug 2010
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
A week ago I wrote of S.T. Joshi’s monumental Lovecraft biography I Am Providence: The Life and Times of H.P. Lovecraft…
“Hopefully this new book won’t continue the tradition of dreadful cover-art, something that seems to plague Lovecraft books.”
Now, news of the jacket design, courtesy of W.H. Pugmire on the SFF Forum…
“S.T. shew’d me the jackets and they are wonderful. Each has the Shunned House on Benefit Street in the background. The photo of young HPL on Volume One is the same that Ellen used for Lovecraft Unbound, and then for [ Volume ] II there is an older HPL in a photo that is S. T.’s favourite image of the author. […] official release later this month.”
I must say that I’ve plundered my PayPal account to buy a copy (there go the profits on selling my self-published books for the last six months…) and am greatly looking forward to being able to start reading the two volumes. I’ve been able to read parts of the Life via Google Books, and they’re fascinating.
Lovecraft Radio Hour
08 Sunday Aug 2010
Posted in Podcasts etc.
A free audio-book of Lovecraft on Spotify, made and read by a radio pro. The delivery is a little fast, but entertaining sound FX are interwoven with the stories.
Pugmire pod
07 Saturday Aug 2010
Posted in Podcasts etc.
Just posted, a new hour-long podcast interview in the excellent Lovecraftian Obsession series. Episode 6 — W.H. Pugmire.
I’ve also found a new (to me) podcast called Yog Radio. It seems to be more of a Cthulhu RPG gaming thing, but also has the occasional more literary interview. And with 40+ episodes so far, there’s got to be a good few hours of non-game material in there.