{"id":55987,"date":"2022-08-03T01:07:40","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T01:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/?p=55987"},"modified":"2022-08-04T01:31:43","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T01:31:43","slug":"lovecraft-annual-2022-the-tocs-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2022\/08\/03\/lovecraft-annual-2022-the-tocs-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Lovecraft Annual 2022 – the TOCs and more"},"content":{"rendered":"

Newly listed at Hippocampus is the scholarly Lovecraft Annual<\/em> journal for 2022, weighing in at 260 pages. Here are the 2022 titles in order…<\/p>\n

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A Tale of Two Providences: Topographical Realism in “The Haunter of the Dark”.<\/p>\n

\u201cUncle Eddy\u201d: H.P. Lovecraft\u2019s Used Bookseller.<\/p>\n

The Ripple Effect: Star Trek<\/em> and the Lovecraft Mythos.<\/p>\n

Solitary Conversation: A Bakhtinian Exploration of H.P. Lovecraft\u2019s \u201cDagon\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Appeal of John Martin\u2019s Paradise Lost<\/em> Pictures to H.P. Lovecraft.<\/p>\n

Lovecraft and the Folklore of Glocester\u2019s Dark Swamp.<\/p>\n

A Note on Nodens in Lovecraft\u2019s Mythos.<\/p>\n

Lovecraft\u2019s Garden: Heart\u2019s Blood at the Root.<\/p>\n

The Authorship of The Cancer of Superstition<\/em> and Lovecraft\u2019s Late Readings on Folklore.<\/p>\n

Painting in Word Shadows: The Role of the Hidden and Unknown to the Reader in Lovecraft.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat Has Sunk May Rise\u201d: How H.P. Lovecraft Re-emerged.<\/p>\n

Reviews (four of them).<\/p>\n

Briefly Noted<\/p>\n

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Looks very good. I’m hoping that “Lovecraft\u2019s Garden” will be a perceptive study of his gardens — known in boyhood (also flower-shops), self-created in youth, visited on travels, and in fiction \/ poetry \/ dreams, and perhaps with a small nod to Belknap Long’s later wartime “Interplanetary Gardens” series of plant tales for boys.<\/p>\n

Having penned the “Uncle Eddy” item myself — Joshi is kind enough to call it an “an authoritative article” in the issue’s blurb — thankfully I don’t have to pay for a copy this time around and one should be arriving shortly. I thank Ken Faig Jr. for his assistance with some of the genealogical data for this final print version of my “Uncle Eddy” item.<\/p>\n

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Also listed as new at Hippocampus is Arthur S. Koki’s 1962 masters dissertation (as we call them in the UK, no apostrophe) titled H.P. Lovecraft: An Introduction to His Life and Writings<\/a><\/em>, for Columbia University. In 208 pages and $25, with the ebook version “coming soon”, the book is billed as…<\/p>\n

“the first detailed account of Lovecraft\u2019s life, written more than a decade before L. Sprague de Camp\u2019s Lovecraft: A Biography<\/em> (1975). De Camp has acknowledged drawing upon Koki\u2019s thesis for much of his own work. … it retains value even after the passage of sixty years, when so much work on Lovecraft has been done. Arthur S. Koki is a pioneer in Lovecraft studies, and his thesis deserves to be read by all devotees of the dreamer from Providence.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Interesting. The book has a rather nice colour cover, using a photoreal rendering of Khoi Nguyen’s recent Lovecraft 3D figure. That reminds me I had the notion to see what might be done about improving the older Meshbox 3D Lovecraft figure for Poser, and I now have the new Poser 12 software which could accomplish that notion. Poser 12 has added the Blender software’s new improved Cycles 2 materials and rendering engine. This is not to recommend Poser 12 to most readers, as it’s still in Early Access. The $52 Poser 11 at Renderosity, is the one that most people will want.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Newly listed at Hippocampus is the scholarly Lovecraft Annual journal for 2022, weighing in at 260 pages. Here are the …<\/p>\n

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