{"id":65815,"date":"2025-05-07T18:56:21","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T18:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/?p=65815"},"modified":"2025-05-07T19:02:52","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T19:02:52","slug":"hplinks-37-fungal-horrors-lovecrafts-lexis-spanish-lovecraft-filmfest-lovecraft-in-strings-lovecraft-tarot-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2025\/05\/07\/hplinks-37-fungal-horrors-lovecrafts-lexis-spanish-lovecraft-filmfest-lovecraft-in-strings-lovecraft-tarot-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"HPLinks #37 – Fungal horrors, Lovecraft’s lexis, Spanish Lovecraft filmfest, Lovecraft in strings, Lovecraft tarot, and more…"},"content":{"rendered":"

HPLinks<\/a> #37. <\/p>\n

* The Palgrave Handbook on Fungal Horror in Popular Culture<\/em> has a call for submissions<\/a>, though with a rather tight deadline of 1st June 2025. Edited from Sweden in English, the forthcoming book has “33 commissioned chapters” but apparently now seeks… “approximately 10 additional original essays” of 7,000 words. The book will be academic but broad in scope, covering…<\/p>\n

popular culture such as, but not limited to, literature, film, television, comics\/graphic novels, computer games, art, and memes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

* New from Italy, the essay “Alice in Borderland<\/em> and Lovecraft: liminal worlds, mental abysses and the nihilism of the unknown”<\/a> (2025). In Italian, but here linked in a Google Translate version (should work). Examines the Alice in Borderland<\/em> Netflix TV series (adapting a Japanese manga comic) via Lovecraft.<\/p>\n

* New from Brazil and under full Creative Commons Attribution, an article which translates as “Lexis and the Construction of Cosmicism in the Works of H.P. Lovecraft: a corpus linguistics perspective”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* Spain’s major International Fantastic Film and Terror Festival (‘PUFA’) returns for its second year, with the 2025 festival… “dedicated to the literary universe of H.P. Lovecraft”. 30th June to 6th July 2025.<\/p>\n

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* Creative orchestral news from the Ukraine, 6th May 2025…<\/p>\n

At the end of the concert program, ‘After reading Lovecraft’ by contemporary Ukrainian composer Oleksandr Rodin was played in Kharkiv for the first time. The audience heard mysterious reflections of Lovecraft\u2019s horror stories and philosophy, evoked through the sounds of a string orchestra. […] Kharkiv Music Festival took place at Kharkiv National Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre, one of the safest places in the city and located just 19 miles south from the Russian border.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

* The HPLHS Store’s<\/a> “new to old” listing page pops up a H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival – Best of 2023<\/a> DVD. So I guess it’s new, or perhaps new stock?<\/p>\n

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* At RPG web-a-zine Noble Knight<\/em>, a new “Publisher Spotlight: H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society”<\/a> plus a mini-interview.<\/p>\n

* A new Italian ebook I mondi del Professor Challenger : politiche, tecno-logiche, ambienti<\/a><\/em> (‘The Worlds of Professor Challenger: politics, technology, environments). Being the latest #88 (2025) issue of the book-a-journal Studia Humaniora<\/em>. Professor Challenger being the Conan Doyle adventurer character. Freely available for download as a Creative Commons .PDF (see bottom of page).<\/p>\n

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* Talking of reflections on Conan Doyle… new to me is the story collection Sherlock Holmes: Adventures in the Realms of H.P. Lovecraft Volume One<\/a><\/em> (2023) and Volume Two<\/a><\/em> (2023). A mega anthology featuring Will Murray, among others. Which is a good sign, though the reviews for volume one are variable and there are none for volume two. Sounds like the books might not suit Sherlock purists.<\/p>\n

* A new call for submissions<\/a> to Gramarye<\/em>, the journal of the venerable Chichester Centre for Fairy Tales, Fantasy and Speculative Fiction, based here in the UK and the first such centre. Deadline: 21st September 2025.<\/p>\n

* A new free reading of the Solomon Kane tale “Red Shadows” by Robert E. Howard<\/a>, read by the fine and increasingly prolific Josh Greenwood. Use the freeware MediaHuman Youtube to MP3 converter to get it without the YouTube adverts.<\/p>\n

* SFcrowsnest<\/em> this week reviews the book An Informal History Of The Pulp Magazines<\/em> by Ron Goulart<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* New to me, The H.P. Lovecraft Tarot | Second Revised Edition<\/a> (2002). Never heard of it before. Time for a third and AI-enhanced edition, perhaps?<\/p>\n

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* The remastered Elder Scrolls: Oblivion<\/em> videogame has added an apparently new official “Side Quest With A Lovecraftian Twist”<\/a>…<\/p>\n

‘A Shadow Over Hackdirt’ stands out for its chilling vibe and gripping tale. This quest pulls inspiration from H.P. Lovecraft, dropping you into the unsettling town of Hackdirt to investigate a merchant\u2019s missing daughter. The place feels off from the start\u2014quiet streets, strange locals, and an eerie sense that something\u2019s watching. As you dig deeper, you uncover … [spoilers]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Oblivion<\/em> was the successor to the all-time classic Morrowind<\/em>. I played Oblivion<\/em> to the end in the original, and I’d suggest it’s well worth considering in its big new ‘remastered’ blockbuster version. Blander and more generic than a re-play of Morrowind<\/em> + mods, but very enjoyable as fantasy RPGs go.<\/p>\n

* And finally, AI is getting startlingly good at precisely geo-locating the exact spot an image was made, just by closely examining what it shows. Astral Code<\/em> has a long article and the tests to prove this<\/a>, and it appears that even a photo of some random beach sand can be good enough. Could this emerging technology help Lovecraftian and pulp author researchers identify the ‘until-now unknown’ location of historical-biographical images? One wonders if it might also work on old postcard images of places?<\/p>\n

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— End-quotes —<\/em><\/p>\n

“I have always been fond of maps & geographical details (I\u2019ve drawn a map of ‘Arkham’ to keep my local references straight), & my lifelong antiquarianism has caused me to lay zestful stress on historic backgrounds & traditional architectural minutiae.” — Lovecraft to Fritz Leiber, November 1936.<\/p>\n

“In the Boston North End [the] old tangled alleys have now been swept away. […] I remember when the precise location of the artist’s house in the story [“Pickman’s Model”] was hit by the razing process. It was in 1927, and Donald Wandrei […] was visiting the East for the first time. He wanted to see the site of the story, and I was very glad to take him to it — thinking that its sinister quaintness would even surpass his expectations. Imagine my dismay, then, at finding nothing but a blank open space where the tottering old houses and zigzag alley-windings had been!” — Lovecraft to Duane Rimel, February 1934.<\/p>\n

“For the past year I have had such a knowledge of Paris that I\u2019ve felt tempted to advertise my services as a guide without ever having seen the damn place — this erudition coming from a ghost-writing job for a goof who wanted to be publicly eloquent about a trip from which he was apparently unable to extract any concrete first-hand impressions. I based my study on maps, guide-books, travel folders, descriptive volumes, & (above all) pictures — the cards secured from you [Galpin] forming the cream of the latter. Fixing the layout of the city in my mind, & calculating what vistas ought to be visible from certain points (pictures seen under a magnifying-glass furnish a splendid substitute for first-hand vistas), I cooked up a travelogue which several Paris-wise readers have almost refused to believe was written by one never within 3,000 miles of the place.” — Lovecraft to Galpin, November 1933.<\/p>\n

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