{"id":41649,"date":"2020-08-21T21:41:14","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T18:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=41649"},"modified":"2020-08-21T21:41:14","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T18:41:14","slug":"the-130th-h-p-lovecraft-birthday-round-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2020\/08\/21\/the-130th-h-p-lovecraft-birthday-round-up\/","title":{"rendered":"H.P. Lovecraft’s 130th Birthday: the round-up"},"content":{"rendered":"

There will probably be more to come, but this is my round-up so far for 2020:<\/p>\n

* The key website hplovecraft.com<\/a> has… “completely overhauled and re-organized the \u201cLovecraft\u2019s Letters<\/a>\u201d page” as a 130th birthday present. This being the page for the Lovecraft letters as published in book form.<\/p>\n

* Portland\u2019s H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival is celebrating Lovecraft\u2019s 130th Birthday on the nearest weekend, via a “streaming event available to stream from anywhere in the U.S.”, and featuring “short films both new and classic from the festival\u2019s 25 year history” and billed as “HPLFF Presents 130 Years of H.P. Lovecraft”. There is also a t-shirt for the event<\/a> and the Festival’s co-director and “fellow Portland horror writers” ran an online Lovecraftian horror panel<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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* The ‘Segundo Festival Literario H.P. Lovecraft’, aka ‘Literario 2do Festival H.P. Lovecraft’, appears to be taking place in Mexico from 20th-22nd August 2020, bringing together Lovecraftian artists, writers and film-makers in Mexico. Last year it was a physical event with stalls, talks and screenings at La Moderna. But this year it was perhaps only virtual. Online already is “Remanentes del pesimismo Schopenhaueriano en al obra de H.P. Lovecraft”<\/a>, a 45 minute video lecture in Spanish on Schopenhauerian pessimism in Lovecraft. Doubtless more videos from the event will appear online soon.<\/p>\n

* Elsewhere in Mexico there was a university event to launch the fourth edition of the La ciudad de las monta\u00f1as de la locura<\/em><\/a> (At The Mountains of Madness<\/em>) and the blurb had it that… “there will be talks, short film screenings and will talk about art, science and cinema, all related to the writer.” The Casa Universitaria del Libro de la UANL also has livecasts via Facebook from August 17th to 22nd. “Among the themes will be addressed the relationship between Lovecraft and the First World War, his vision as a popularizer of science, the relationship between cinema and literature, and his poetry.”<\/p>\n

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* Also in Mexico, the 19th Macabre Film Festival at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico runs… “from August 25th to 30th, and will commemorate a hundred years of German Expressionism, and 130 years since the birth of H.P. Lovecraft”. The PDF Programme<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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* Nothing from the Italian or other European Lovecraftians, that I can see. But possibly the search-engines have not yet got around to indexing the latest from across Europe. I get that impression from searches.<\/p>\n

* I released my Annotated “Hypnos”<\/a> at Tentaclii<\/em>. This is the first substantial annotated edition, as Klinger omitted it from his two volumes, and the notes to be found from S.T. Joshi are fairly short.<\/p>\n

* The latest Sept\/Oct Halloween issue of Digital Production<\/em> magazine<\/a>, the substantial German trade magazine for high-end movie and TV digital FX and similar, was released on Lovecraft’s birthday with a ‘Cthulhu creation’ feature (article not yet online).<\/p>\n

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* There’s a “Cthulhu Mythos Sale” over on DriveThuRPG, which appears to be one of the largest of the RGP book sites. Tenkar’s Tavern has waded in<\/a> and selected five of the best, and promises more picks soon.<\/p>\n

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* RPG gamers also chose the day to unleash Apocthulhu<\/a><\/em>… “successfully launched the PDF edition of the APOCTHULHU Core Rulebook. It’s a 330 page behemoth packed with rules, world building resources, pre-defined settings…”.<\/p>\n

* Comics artist Frank Brunner & Friends posted a nice arty ‘birthday-card’ on Facebook…<\/p>\n

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* A slightly less impressive Cthulhu Minecraft<\/em> Skin<\/a> was released. But fun, if you need a Cthulhu in there.<\/p>\n

* Makowh released his full reading of “The Rats in the Walls”<\/a>, accompanied by his own artwork which can be seen in crisper form at ArtStation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* Harry Piper put together special 130th Birthday musings on “The Cosmic Pessimism of H.P. Lovecraft”<\/a>. <\/p>\n

* And lastly and rather more cheerily, the Journal of Geek Studies<\/em> chose the day to celebrate Pok\u00e9crustacea: the crustacean-inspired Pok\u00e9mon<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There will probably be more to come, but this is my round-up so far for 2020: * The key website …<\/p>\n

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