{"id":57016,"date":"2022-10-24T03:28:11","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T03:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/?p=57016"},"modified":"2022-10-23T18:25:11","modified_gmt":"2022-10-23T18:25:11","slug":"two-new-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2022\/10\/24\/two-new-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Two new books"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Portugal, the new ebook Lovecraft e as Tradicoes Esotericas: Influencias do Horror Cosmico no Ocultismo<\/a><\/em> (trans: ‘Lovecraft and the Esoteric Traditions: Influences of Cosmic Horror on Occultism’). In Portuguese. <\/p>\n

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Here’s my translation of the TOC…<\/p>\n

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Preface (Dennis P. Quinn Ph.D., Professor and Department Chair of Interdisciplinary Studies at Cal Poly Pomona, California)<\/p>\n

1. The Cold and Dark Vast of the Cosmos<\/p>\n

2. Lovecraft: Posthumous Member of the Counterculture<\/p>\n

3. From Abnegation to Cosmic Pessimism<\/p>\n

4. The Dark Essence of the Cthulhu Mythos<\/p>\n

5. The Occult Tradition and its Marks in Lovecraft<\/p>\n

6. Cults of Cthulhu, its Fans and Devotees<\/p>\n

7. The Culture of Fans as a Creative Microcosm<\/p>\n

8. The Cult Still Lives…<\/p>\n

References<\/p>\n

Appendix<\/p>\n

“The Festival” (annotated)<\/p>\n

135 pages, September 2022.<\/p>\n

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I can’t get the cover-artist name, but it’s nice work. I also like the retro mid-1980s thrift-shop feel it has.<\/p>\n

The other book is still forthcoming. Due soon-ish is The Medial Afterlives of H.P. Lovecraft: Comic, Film, Podcast, TV, Games<\/a><\/em>, with Amazon wobbling between late December 2022 \/ early 2023. It’s one of those academic… now, I was going to say “\u00a380 tomes”. But the standard list-price for such things seems to have now jumped to \u00a3120 (roughly $140). <\/p>\n

So… it’s one of those invitation-only academic \u00a3120<\/strong> tomes, of the sort that can trap some good academic work in inaccessible volumes. <\/p>\n

Discusses a wide array of medial forms, from film and TV to comics, podcasts, and video and board games.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Again. Yawn<\/em>… <\/p>\n

Part of the Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture<\/em> series. Despite the price, the academic salaries involved, and leftist hand-wringing about academic labour… they’ve used a raw and very obviously AI-generated image for the cover.<\/p>\n

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From Portugal, the new ebook Lovecraft e as Tradicoes Esotericas: Influencias do Horror Cosmico no Ocultismo (trans: ‘Lovecraft and the …<\/p>\n

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