{"id":65159,"date":"2024-09-23T18:45:38","date_gmt":"2024-09-23T18:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/?p=65159"},"modified":"2025-02-22T12:49:28","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T12:49:28","slug":"hplinks-6-litfest-dongbei-mythcon-and-a-mysteriously-foxy-map-in-hpls-own-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2024\/09\/23\/hplinks-6-litfest-dongbei-mythcon-and-a-mysteriously-foxy-map-in-hpls-own-hand\/","title":{"rendered":"HPLinks #6 – LitFest, Dongbei, MythCon, and a mysteriously foxy map in HPL’s own hand"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to HPLinks<\/a> #6.<\/p>\n

* A short Q&A interview with the Innsmouth Literary Festival organisers<\/a>. The event happens here in the UK on 28th September 2024, and will bring together Mythos writers, publishers, editors and collectors of weird fiction.<\/p>\n

* Leftist Spanish newspaper El Pais<\/em> this week has a new feature article on “Dias felices e impios en el club de lectura Lovecraft”<\/a> (‘Happy, Ungodly Days at the Lovecraft Book Club’) ($ paywall, in Spanish). The Club being a group of fans who apparently strike the journalist as unusually cheerful for Lovecraftians. <\/p>\n

* According to Amazon UK, Francois Baranger’s oversized L’Ombre sur Innsmouth illustre<\/em> releases in French in mid October 2024, not 2025 as was mooted earlier in the year.<\/p>\n

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The French Druillet – Lovecraft<\/em> artbook and the English edition of Tanabe’s Cthulhu<\/em> manga are expected about the same time.<\/p>\n

* A recent long podcast on “Modern Religion and H.P. Lovecraft”<\/a>, with Christopher Ruocchio and Austin Freeman. Freeman is the editor of the excellent recent book on Lovecraft and aspects of theology and the Bible.<\/p>\n

* From Brazil in open-access, the new article “Lovecraft e a logica dos transitos culturais”<\/a> (‘Lovecraft and the logic of cultural transits’). Examines his transits into and consequent… “massive penetration [into the culture, and how this disturbs] “classic dichotomies and dominant philosophical and aesthetic perspectives”.<\/p>\n

* A new bibliography of Lovecraft in Hebrew translation<\/a>, via S.T. Joshi. Who, in the same post, reveals he has finished his massive survey history of atheism.<\/p>\n

* From Indonesia in English, an open-access journal article on Lovecraftian Elements in the Writing of Three Icons of the Dongbei Renaissance<\/a>…<\/p>\n

Literary works based on Dongbei (China\u2019s Northeast) or composed by Dongbei-born writers have been playing a preponderant role in modern Chinese literature” […] “the three leading neo-Dongbei writers portray preternatural creatures, and their narratives convey fear of the unknown and nameless approximations of form” and thus their work “bears resemblance to the Cthulhu Mythos”.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

* Partial online proceedings of the recent Mythcon 53<\/a> (August 2024), with videos and transcripts, plus some PDF papers. About 75% Tolkien, but with other papers. Such as: “Clifford Simak\u2019s Big Front Yard”; “Fantasist of Middle America: L. Frank Baum and his Works”; “Middle West and the Pastoral Ideal in the American Artistic Landscape”; “The Tragic Life and Misconstrued Work of Jules Verne”; and “Wisdom and Life Lessons in the Works of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Ray Bradbury, and David R. Slayton”. Freely available online, though they still await some PDFs. <\/p>\n

* Talking of Simak, it’s good to learn that the long-awaited final two volumes of The Complete Short Fiction of Clifford D. Simak<\/em> were released in 2023. Though (of the set) these two still appear to lack Kindle editions on Amazon UK. 14 volumes in total. #13 was Buckets of Diamonds<\/em> (tales of strange events in otherwise ordinary American towns) and the final #14 was Epilog<\/em> (Simak’s robot stories).<\/p>\n

* A pleasing new quick-sketch of Klarkash Ton by MrZarono<\/a>, at DeviantArt.<\/p>\n

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* A John Carter of Mars audio series<\/a>, now fully funded on Kickstarter. The $84k+ raised will enable… “the first dramatic audio adaptation”, multi-cast and with lush soundscapes. Though note it’s an ‘adaptation’, rather than an ‘unabridged reading’ + cast and FX.<\/p>\n

* A slick new directory of 920 illustrators understood by Midjourney<\/a>, the popular paid-for online AI image-generator. Illustrated, and with a search-box, so you can quickly look for the names of long-ago pulp artists.<\/p>\n

* Compare the above with Arcanorium at DeviantArt<\/a>, a huge and magnificent selection of old-school painted fantasy art. No AI involved.<\/p>\n

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“Wizard’s Revenge” by Don Maitz.<\/em><\/p>\n

* And finally, rather less prettily, my cleaning of Lovecraft’s map of “Foxfield”. This being his unused setting for a weird tale. Found on the back of one of the letters whose paper was used to write “The Dreams in the Witch House”<\/a> in early 1932. The letter he used for this map is dated 25th October 1930, therefore this map must have been drawn between then and early 1932. Here I’ve carefully removed the typed letter in Photoshop, to leave you with only the pencil map…<\/p>\n

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His “1932 | 1692” note suggests the likely years that could have been involved with a Foxfield tale: an investigation in 1932 of events in that place in 1692 — the year in which the Salem Witch Trials began. Thus one might think of it as a fold-out visual addition to his Commonplace Book<\/em> of story-ideas. (With thanks to ‘Eastman’ for the Web link to the Brown repository page containing the scan). (Update: Cthulhu & Co.<\/a> has a transcription online).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Welcome to HPLinks #6. * A short Q&A interview with the Innsmouth Literary Festival organisers. The event happens here in …<\/p>\n

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