{"id":51867,"date":"2022-01-02T18:22:56","date_gmt":"2022-01-02T18:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jurn.org\/tentaclii\/?p=51867"},"modified":"2022-09-16T02:06:02","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T02:06:02","slug":"december-on-tentaclii-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2022\/01\/02\/december-on-tentaclii-2\/","title":{"rendered":"December on Tentaclii"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a quick round-up for December on Tentaclii<\/em>, for what it’s worth now. In December my ‘Picture Postals’ posts took a look at Robie Alzada Place (1827\u20131896) and her home place to the west of Providence, this also having been the home place of Lovecraft’s mother; I followed Lovecraft’s travel trail far up into the White Mountains; and I mused on the Ladd Observatory and its relation to time and time-keeping in Providence.<\/p>\n

I wrote a long summary here of the year’s more general Lovecraft-related activity by others, in “Lovecraft in 2021: a summary survey”. <\/p>\n

Not much in new books in December, but I was pleased to spot S.T. Joshi’s Phantasmagoria: The Weird Fiction, Poetry, and Criticism of Sir Walter Scott<\/em> and its fine cover. Also the Lovecraft astronomy book El Astronomicon Y Otros Textes En Defense De La Ciencia<\/em> down in Spain. The French had shipping dates for the various volumes in the sumptuous Editions Mnemos set of Lovecraft’s work in a new translation.<\/p>\n

Not much research by me in December, other than for the ‘Picture Postals’, though I am slowly reading through a new book of letters. I did look at who Chapman Miske was, what he published on Lovecraft, and where to find it. I took another look at Lovecraft’s knowledge of Harlem, after finding some new data. <\/p>\n

I spotted that H.P. Lovecraft\u2019s first publication (Scientific American<\/em>, 25th August 1906) was for sale on eBay. Also on eBay I found a good watercolour of the \u201cLongitude\u201d lane in Charleston, which Lovecraft described and admired on his travels. Over on Abe, a set of “At the Mountains of Madness\u201d in Astounding Stories<\/em> appeared for sale. More significantly, at the end of the month Abe also landed a big bundle of Lovecraft’s earliest appearances in print.<\/p>\n

Popping up on Archive.org for free in December was a comprehensive plot-annotated checklist of \u2018Bibliomysteries\u2019 (mystery novels across various genres which centre on rare books, book collectors, old bookshops and suchlike); and I was also pleased to see Clifford D. Simak: a primary and secondary bibliography<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Among the audio, the timely story \u201cThe Return of the Undead\u201d by Arthur Leeds saw a welcome free release on YouTube. It’s also just gone into the public domain. A new Voluminous<\/em> podcast looked at ‘H.P. Lovecraft, Detective’, doggedly solving a dastardly crime at the Haverhill Post Office. A books podcast interviewed the author of the intriguing new novel Providence Blue: A Fantasy Quest<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I was pleased to see that the Robert E. Howard Days in Texas announced their 2022 dates. I was also pleased to find a new lost story by Lovecraft’s friend Everett McNeil, “A Descendant of the Vikings” (1906\/07).<\/p>\n

In software I noted the new writing software CQuill Writer 1.x, an interesting style-prompting assistant which could be filled (in its full paid version) with the works of Lovecraft. I also see that Scrivener 3.x for Windows was released, at long last, something I had missed earlier in 2021. The latter seems hideously complex, but is said to be the best software for writers on Windows. In 3D software I noted free 3D writing accessories for the free DAZ Studio 3D figure rendering software, which could be used with the 3D Lovecraft figure.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere I produced a bumper 108-page ‘Moebius tribute’ issue of Digital Art Live<\/em>, and also interviewed Simon Ravenhill (Striker<\/em>, in The Sun<\/em> newspaper) for VisNews<\/em>. I comprehensively updated my free “The Folk-lore of North Staffordshire” annotated bibliography, now available online in version 1.7. I released my short book Tolkien and the Lizard: J.R.R. Tolkien in Cornwall, 1914<\/em>, this being a PDF extract from a much larger book on a far larger and more intellectual topic relating to the young Tolkien. Cornwall<\/em> has sold only two copies, as a fundraiser for the larger book, but did at least help pay for the meagre Christmas food shopping.<\/p>\n

All this while having Omicron. From which I’m now recovered — and I presumably now have the latest and greatest antibodies.<\/p>\n

Coming soon on Tentaclii<\/em>… Lovecraft’s almanacks, Tom Baker’s best, and taking the Trans-Europe Express to vampire-country. Not necessarily in that order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a quick round-up for December on Tentaclii, for what it’s worth now. In December my ‘Picture Postals’ posts took …<\/p>\n

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