* Lovecraft’s Letters to Wilfred B. Talman<\/a><\/em> is said by Amazon to be shipping today.<\/p>\n * My own extensively annotated “The Cats of Ulthar”<\/a>, new and free online. I think this ended up around 8,000 words. At 20 pages it should be printable as a five-sheet booklet.<\/p>\n * Revised and expanded 2019 edition of my big map of Lovecraft’s Providence<\/a>. 5mb, printable. Added: Eddy’s Bookshop; Twin Islands (boyhood adventures); Fox Point (where he met and saw off visitors on the New York boat); St. John’s churchyard (a regular stop on ‘the tour’ for visitors).<\/p>\n * InnFest 2019<\/a>. 20th-27th August 2019, “celebrating H.P. Lovecraft\u2019s 129th birthday. Visitors [to the famous Second Life<\/em> ‘virtual world’] will enjoy shopping [for Lovecraftian ‘virtual crafts and fashions’] and experience a week of exploration, events and entertainment featuring a fine calendar of music and stage shows at the theatre and other [digital 3D recreations of] locations in Lovecraft Country.” Not sure about the knick-knacks, but the location-builds can be quite something. Especially now that Second Life<\/em> has VR.<\/p>\n * Dark Adventure Radio Theatre have their new Mad Science<\/em> old-time radio serial adaptations of Lovecraft ready to go, and when last heard planned to release the collection… “on or about Lovecraft’s birthday, 20th August 2019”.<\/p>\n * In Mexico, the state of Veracruz and the writer Miguel Angel Vartak have “organized an exhibition of Lovecraft books and stories, a reading of Lovecraft’s poetry, live music and several lectures”.<\/p>\n * I also spotted a special ‘H.P Lovecraft Birthday’ Guided Tour of Brooklyn.<\/p>\n Various other stuff that’s just too cynically spammy to mention, to do with offering marginal discounts on Lovecraft-labelled beer and modern RPGs and suchlike. Try harder next year.<\/p>\n And finally, not quite on the birthday, but on the closest weekend… the many-tentacled NecronomiCon Providence 2019<\/a> rises from the depths again on 22nd-25th August 2019. I seem to recall that the new Selected Essays<\/em> and Selected Poems<\/em> Lovecraft books are due for release to coincide with this?<\/p>\n The R.I. Historical Society had their usual annual H.P. Lovecraft: A Literary Life<\/a> walk on the 17th August, rather than the 20th. If you missed it then they have a H.P. Lovecraft Literary Walking Tour in October<\/a>: “October 19, 20, 26 & 27, 2019”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Lovecraft’s Birthday, the 2019 round-up: It’s the 129th! * Released on H.P. Lovecraft\u2019s birthday, from Hippocampus, An Imp of Aether. …<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/imp.jpg\")
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