{"id":65791,"date":"2025-04-24T21:05:03","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T21:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/?p=65791"},"modified":"2025-04-24T21:14:28","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T21:14:28","slug":"hplinks-35-a-different-alcestis-hobbes-and-other-philosophy-magic-detectives-brown-modernism-moebius-pop-ups-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2025\/04\/24\/hplinks-35-a-different-alcestis-hobbes-and-other-philosophy-magic-detectives-brown-modernism-moebius-pop-ups-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"HPLinks #35 – a different Alcestis, Hobbes and other philosophy, magic detectives, Brown, modernism, Moebius, pop-ups and more…"},"content":{"rendered":"

HPLinks<\/a> #35. <\/p>\n

* The HPLHS Store now has the new Alcestis<\/em> book version<\/a> in stock…<\/p>\n

… not only had the pair of them written a new prologue for the piece, but also presented after that a version of the play itself that was substantially different from other known translations, so we consulted with a classics scholar. In the end, instead of the lovely but simple pamphlet containing Sonia and Lovecraft’s version of Alcestis, we originally intended to produce, we are creating a casebound volume containing an explication of all of the new discoveries about this piece in the form of a paper by Helios Editor\/Publisher N.R. Jenzen-Jones and classics scholar Carman Romano; Sonia and Lovecraft’s edition of Alcestis, complete with their prologue, and newly commissioned illustrations by several of our favorite artists. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

* “Music for a blind idiot god: towards a weird ecology of noise”<\/a> (2024). On “the horror of noise” in Lovecraft and others. Freely available for download.<\/p>\n

* In the latest issue of the open-access journal Diaphonia<\/em>, “Uma interlocucao entre estado hobbesiano com \u201cO mito de Cthulhu\u201d na literatura de H.P. Lovecraft”<\/a>. It’s an awkward title to translate but, with reference to the abstract, this would about cover it: ‘A discussion between the absolutist Hobbesian state and the totalitarian sovereignty of Cthulhu as described in H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Call of Cthulhu”. Freely available online.<\/p>\n

* A new contribution on ‘The Weird’ from Graham Harman, a leading philosopher in the field, “Weird Fallibilism: Feyerabend, Lakatos, and Justified True Belief”<\/a> (2024). Freely available for download. Drawing on Lovecraft, he suggests the description of ‘weird fallibilism’ for a situation in which… “1) truth never corresponds to reality, and (2) objects never correspond to their own qualities”.<\/p>\n

* A review in the new edition of Mythlore<\/em> of the academic book Magic, Magicians and Detective Fiction: Essays on Intersecting Modes of Mystery<\/a><\/em> (2025). The review is freely available online.<\/p>\n

* The new academic book Deviant Landscapes: A Journey to Exotic and Imaginary Places and Spaces<\/a><\/em> (2025). Intriguing title, but the only somewhat relevant chapter appears to be “Atmospheric Narrative Landscape, Stimmung and Place-Making in Edgar Allan Poe\u2019s \u201cSilence \u2014 A Fable\u201d”. Stimmung<\/em> is German and means broadly ‘mood\/atmosphere’.<\/p>\n

* The recent visit by S.T. Joshi made me aware of the wider Weird Fiction Collections at Brown University<\/a>. It’s not just the Lovecraft letters.<\/p>\n

* Brown University Master of Fine Arts student Roman Johnson is reported to have been given the latest S.T. Joshi Fellowship by Brown University<\/a>. No details yet about his research topic or aim.<\/p>\n

* A Masters dissertation for Texas State University, “Our Eyes are Yet to Open: H.P. Lovecraft and Modernist Horror”<\/a> (2023). Freely available online. The abstract shows a clear focus and the author examined the essays and letters as well as three tales…<\/p>\n

examines Lovecraft’s essays and correspondence to highlight his concerns and philosophical perspectives with his modernist contemporaries. [A study of three tales shows that] Lovecraft’s fiction exhibits various themes and techniques associated with literary modernism more prominently than one might initially assume. [Integrating aspects of early modernism] allowed him to express his fears and philosophical viewpoints about modernist concerns through terrifying and cosmic imagery.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

* Robert Silverberg on HPL’s “gloriously overwrought” Shadow Out Of Time<\/a>, an article extracted to HTML from Asimov’s Science Fiction<\/em> magazine<\/a> (December 2005).<\/p>\n

* Now on Google Books with a preview, the new biography Robert E. Howard: The Life and Times of a Texas Author<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

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* In the field of vintage comics appreciation, Deep Cuts<\/em> has a new long post. Finding that there was an Italian edition of the Heavy Metal<\/em> magazine ‘Lovecraft special’<\/a>. The images shown reveal that the cover used an enlarged and coloured version of that issue’s fine b&w Moebius drawing. The long post has exhaustive details of the different editions, and many interior page and details. Here’s a good cover image I snagged from eBay, where collectors will still find several copies of the Italian edition for sale.<\/p>\n

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* Newly listed on eBay UK, Lovecraft’s Selected Letters: 1929-1931<\/a><\/em> from a UK seller and at a sensible \u00a320 price. Though sadly there’s no ‘Click & Collect’ on offer, or I’d have had it. Still, some Tentaclii<\/em> reader (with a big and accessible letter-box, able to take chunky books) may want it at that price.<\/p>\n

* And finally, also on eBay and new to me, the Necronomicon Pop-up Book<\/em> (2017) by ‘Skinner’ and Rosston Meyer…<\/p>\n

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— End-quotes —<\/em><\/p>\n

“144. Hideous book glimpsed in ancient shop — never seen again.” — from Lovecraft’s Commonplace Book<\/em> of story germs and ideas.<\/p>\n

“To Whomsoever May Open This Book: This is set down as a Warning to you, Sir or Madam, that you are not to open this Book beyond the Place mark’d by a red Riband. It wou’d be better for you to throw the whole Book unopen’d into the fire; but being unable to do so myself, I cannot hope that you will. I do nevertheless adjure you to look nowhere in it beyond the Riband, lest you lose yourself to this World, Body and Soul; for truly, it is a Tomb for the Living.” — Lovecraft pens an original ‘book warning’, in his best circa-1780 style, in a letter to Morton of March 1937.<\/p>\n

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