{"id":65535,"date":"2025-01-29T19:23:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T19:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/?p=65535"},"modified":"2025-01-29T19:43:14","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T19:43:14","slug":"hplinks-23-reh-letters-loved-dead-geometries-of-terror-arkham-grows-pyramids-pixels-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2025\/01\/29\/hplinks-23-reh-letters-loved-dead-geometries-of-terror-arkham-grows-pyramids-pixels-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"HPLinks #23 – REH letters, Loved Dead, geometries of terror, Arkham grows, pyramids, pixels and more…"},"content":{"rendered":"

HPLinks<\/a><\/em> #23. <\/p>\n

* Mr. and Mrs. Psmith\u2019s Bookshelf<\/em> has a long and detailed review of A Means to Freedom<\/a><\/em>, the two-volume edition of the letters of Lovecraft and REH. With footnotes, even.<\/p>\n

* The latest SFFaudio Podcast<\/em> #823<\/a> is “The Loved Dead” by C.M. Eddy and H.P. Lovecraft. With discussion and a full reading by Jim Moon. The story is now public domain at last, due to the recent lapse of copyright.<\/p>\n

* A November 2024 group interview in a literary magazine, with the Italian Lovecraftians<\/a>, or at least those who congregate on the Lovecraft channel of the Telegram social-media service. Freely available, in Italian.<\/p>\n

* In Italy in November 2024, a third conference \/ talk-series on “Geometries of Terror: The rhetorical space in the weird literature”<\/a>. I see a 66-page publication from the event<\/a>, freely available in Italian as a flipbook. Several Lovecraft items are seen on the contents page. This, however, turns out to be a free extract from the forthcoming 316-page printed book<\/a> of the conference proceedings (all three of them?) which is set for February 2025. <\/p>\n

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* Also in Italy, what appears to be a Kindle edition of an Italian translation<\/a> of the Rodionoff \/ Breccia graphic novel Lovecraft<\/em>. Due February 2025.<\/p>\n

* In French with an English abstract, “Esthetique de l’horreur et influence des motifs lovecraftiens dans le cinema de Stuart Gordon et Brian Yuzna:<\/a> (2024). (‘The aesthetics of horror and the influence of Lovecraftian patterns in the cinema of Stuart Gordon and Brian Yuzna’). Possibly a Masters dissertation? Freely available for download.<\/p>\n

* Here in the UK the London Lovecraft Festival<\/a> website has now updated, and has the February 2025 details.<\/p>\n

* Antihero<\/em> magazine reviews the new “Monumental Journey Through Lovecraftian Horror and Black Metal Majesty”<\/a>. This being the new album Kadath<\/em> by the band The Great Old Ones. The review finds it…<\/p>\n

an intricate and absorbing black metal masterpiece that honors Lovecraft\u2019s vision while pushing their sound to new heights. This is not just an album; it\u2019s an experience — a deep dive into a world of cosmic horror and surreal beauty.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

* A new Lovecraftian picture series, “The Arkham Growths”<\/a>. All are under Creative Commons Attribution, should you wish to re-use them.<\/p>\n

a series of glass-plate pictures from the late 1920s. The weird plants were grown from seeds collected by an expedition from Miskatonic University into a blighted district located “west of Arkham” in the late 1920s. The plants were found to be bioluminescent, and these ten low-light images are now the only surviving relics of the Miskatonic investigation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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* Apparently set for publication in English in July 2025, the Tanabe manga adaptation of Lovecraft’s “The Colour Out of Space”. The English cover has been released…<\/p>\n

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* Marvel’s Savage Sword of Conan: The Original Comics Omnibus<\/em> Vol. 6 is due to be published on 6th August 2025. It should weigh in at over 1,000 pages. Reprinting the Savage Sword of Conan<\/em> magazine-format comic #73-87 from the early 1980s, plus a 1977 special.<\/p>\n

* New on Archive.org, a scan of Forrest J. Ackerman’s The Frankenscience Monster<\/a><\/em>, a book length collections of essays on and tributes to the early horror-movie star Boris Karloff.<\/p>\n

* Isaac Asimov’s Invention & Discovery Cards<\/a>… “all 1,477 entries from Asimov’s encyclopedia are now represented as illustrated cards” and these are presented in an interactive adjustable web display\/timeline.<\/p>\n

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* New, the pixellated 1990’s Lovecraftian Cosmic Horror Adventure Shadow of the Comet<\/em> – “Remastered”<\/a>…<\/p>\n

Shadow of the Comet is a great game, but it\u2019s also quite a broken one. So in this special edit I\u2019ve addressed its most glaring issues to make it a more entertaining experience. It required thousands of edits and an entirely new custom subtitle track. […] The video [a three-hour playthrough of the fixed game, on YouTube] also includes the bonus ‘Lovecraft Museum’ at the end. The Museum features lots of cool cosmic horror relics including the Necronomicon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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* From the Public Domain Film Contest 2025, the short film “Road Trip”<\/a>, which (among others) samples from “The Dunwich Horror” and the Lovecraft-fave philosopher Alfred North Whitehead.<\/p>\n

* Found, another picture of the location of ‘Uncle’ Eddy’s bookshop on Weybosset<\/a> in Providence. See my contribution to The Lovecraft Annual <\/em>2023 for details of the man and his shop, well known to Lovecraft and many of the Lovecraft Circle.<\/p>\n

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* And finally, a new survey of “Pyramids on the Cover of Weird Tales<\/em>“<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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— End-quotes —<\/em><\/p>\n

“It was not like any city of earth, for above purple mists rose towers, spires, and pyramids which one may only dream of in opiate lands beyond the Oxus; towers, spires and pyramids that no man could fashion, but that bloomed flower-like and delicate …” — May 1922, Lovecraft to Moe. On his first sight of the evening lights of New York City coming up, seen from across the river.<\/p>\n

“I saw the heavens verminous with strange flying things, and beneath them a hellish black city of giant stone terraces with impious pyramids flung savagely to the moon, and devil-lights burning from unnumbered windows.” — Lovecraft’s revised vision of New York City, in the short tale “He”.<\/p>\n

He would also encounter evocative pyramid-shapes in graveyards…<\/p>\n

After briefly greeting such of the family — mother and sister — as were present, I departed with Edgar for the ancient shades of Amesbury […] “We alighted at the ancient graveyard” [where we] “marvell\u2019d in the sombre pines and willows, slabs and monuments. Edgar reveal\u2019d an imagination of high quality, and upon one occasion call\u2019d my attention to the inimitably Babylonian effect of a certain granite memorial of pyramidal outline, as glimps\u2019d thro\u2019 distant trees against the iridescent sunset.” — Lovecraft to Galpin, 1st May 1923. On visiting the schoolboy Edgar Jacobs Davis in Merrimac.\t <\/p>\n

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