{"id":66279,"date":"2025-11-21T20:39:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T20:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/?p=66279"},"modified":"2025-11-22T10:31:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T10:31:12","slug":"hplinks-64-lovecrafter-14-atlas-lovecraft-lovecraft-on-staten-island-necronomicon-2026-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2025\/11\/21\/hplinks-64-lovecrafter-14-atlas-lovecraft-lovecraft-on-staten-island-necronomicon-2026-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"HPLinks #64 – Lovecrafter 14, Atlas Lovecraft, Lovecraft on Staten Island, NecronomiCon 2026, and more…"},"content":{"rendered":"

HPLinks<\/a> #64. <\/p>\n

* The German Lovecraftians have shipped their German-language Lovecrafter<\/em> annual #14 in print. One of the themes of the twin-themed issue is Fritz Leiber Jr. and his “very special relationship with Lovecraft, particularly notable for his unique intellectual and empathetic quality.” The other theme, judging by the issue’s cover (which recalls 1970s comic-zines), is presumably related to traces of Lovecraft as found in 1965-1985 Marvel and DC comics? <\/p>\n

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* Currently under embargo, but with an abstract, “Conflicting Visions: H.P. Lovecraft and the Genesis of the Modern Weird Tale”<\/a> (2025). The central claim appear to be that… “far more so than most Lovecraft scholars have acknowledged. Lovecraft reworked, and improved, material that he read in the pulps, which provided him with a warehouse of ideas and themes.”<\/p>\n

* The latest edition of Literal: Latin American Voices<\/em> considers Lovecraft translations from Bolivia<\/a>…<\/p>\n

… translating Lovecraft came to Colanzi in the middle of a creative crossroads. Jumping into the Providence author’s mind and grappling with his baroque style opened up new possibilities. One thinks of Holderlin, struggling with his German translation of Antigone…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

* It’s always good to see a quality magazine being revived. The Pulp Super-Fan<\/em> brings news that Illustration<\/em> magazine is back<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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* Syfy.com<\/em> peeps into the French book Atlas Lovecraft<\/a><\/em> and has some interior previews. The October 2025 hardcover is currently listing as “unavailable” on Amazon UK, though I guess there’s bound to be an English edition soon.<\/p>\n

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* Sprague de Camp Fan<\/em> takes a long look<\/a> at Clark Ashton Smith via his biography and the book Literary Swordsmen and Sorcerers<\/em>.<\/p>\n

* This week the Online Review of Rhode Island History<\/em> provides some historical context for Lovecraft’s love of old houses. With a long look at the very popular celebration of Old Home Days in Rhode Island<\/a>, annual events which show that Lovecraft was far from being an isolated enthusiast in such matters.<\/p>\n

* New on YouTube, an on-site tour of some sites related to “H.P. Lovecraft’s Visit to Staten Island”<\/a> (warning: swaying camera will quickly induce sea-sickness). <\/p>\n

* Longbox of Darkness<\/em> opens the box-lid on “Four Tales of the Weird: A Foray into Henry Kuttner\u2019s Greatest Horror Stories”<\/a>…<\/p>\n

The Salem Horror” feels like Kuttner\u2019s most direct homage to Lovecraft, combining New England Gothic atmosphere with Mythos entities. But where Lovecraft would have dwelt on cosmic insignificance and alien geometries, Kuttner keeps the horror grounded in very human terrors: invasion of the creative mind, loss of agency, and the corruption of one\u2019s own work.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

* John Coulthart on “The Return of the Crawling Chaos”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* In France, press coverage of Campus Miskatonic<\/a> (warning: VPN users are blocked). The weekend event starts this evening in Verdun, and details are at the Campus Miskatonic event website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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* In the USA, dates for NecronomiCon Providence 2026<\/a>. No programming details yet, but there’s a 1970s-evoking ‘retro-groovy’ poster and the Vendors Hall bookings… “will open in late 2025 \/ early 2026”. <\/p>\n

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* A short review<\/a> of the new indie puzzler-videogame The Dyer Expedition<\/em>. <\/p>\n

* Stuart Gordon\u2019s 1980s movie of Lovecraft’s Re-Animator<\/em> is having a new… “Dual 4K UHD\/Blu-ray Limited Edition release, alongside Standard editions, on 15th December 2025”. Apparently it’s a box-set complete with special features, and a 120-page essay-booklet. I’m no expert on Lovecraftian movies, and I’m not sure if these are new or have been released before.<\/p>\n

* I re-visited the seller of the bargain UK books of the Letters<\/em>, as recently posted about and linked to here on Tentaclii<\/em>. I’m glad I did, since I found he had added Click & Collect to those listings. Which means I’m pleased to say I’ve bagged the C.L. Moore, the Vernon Shea, and also the Morton volumes of Lovecraft’s letters, at bargain prices. Not dirt-cheap, but bargains compared to the high post-lockdown prices that books now command. The purchases are now on their way to a local pickup-point. I’ve long had the Morton letters in ebook, but it’ll be nice to now have these in print. Many thanks to my Patreon patrons for enabling such purchases. <\/p>\n

* And finally, new on Archive.org is a good scan of the 69-page French catalogue for the exhibition Les 6 Voyage De Philippe Druillet<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Picture: Lovecraft in the clutches of night-gaunts, Druillet.<\/p>\n

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— End-quotes —<\/em> <\/p>\n

“Last summer and this spring I have spent much time exploring the colonial reaches of Staten Island” — Lovecraft to Moe from New York City, June 1925. He was also there in 1924, since a letter of September 1924 mentions an “all-day jaunt to elder regions” of Staten Island. Incidentally, most of the earliest wild western movies were made in New York, on Staten Island, before the industry moved out to Hollywood. Lovecraft’s good friend and fellow Kalem member Everett McNeil had been a professional screenwriter for these westerns. One of the key makers of New York westerns was a firm called KALEM.<\/p>\n

Days before writing out the entire plot of \u201cThe Call of Cthulhu\u201d Lovecraft fearlessly went on a magnificently extensive solo all-night walk through the city, in defiance of Sonia, ending up on the Staten Island ferry. Quite a walk to take, alone at the dead of night in the less salubrious parts of a large city: “I could go where I darned please and when I darned please […] I set forth on a nocturnal pilgrimage after mine own heart; beginning at Chelsea […] & working south toward Greenwich […] south along Hudson St. to Old New York […] under Brooklyn Bridge [then back] toward The Battery [and as dawn broke, onto] a Staten Island ferry.” — Letters from New York<\/em>, page 170.<\/p>\n

“… truly untainted countryside near New-York — the rolling agrestick reaches of Staten-Island. I saw much more of it than I ever had before, visiting in particular the tangled colonial alleys of Stapleton, the archaick lanes of New-Dorp, and the steep streets of Richmond, which rests in a picturesque valley. In New-Dorp is the antient Britton-Cubberly house, a hoary moss-grown pile now employ\u2019d as a Musaeum; whilst at Richmond are the finest hilltop court-house and valley churchyard that the length and breadth of the island can afford. I shall never forget my sight of Richmond in a glorious sunset, when I stood on a neighbouring hill behind the churchyard and saw the spires and roofs of the drowsy village below tipp\u2019d with a magick and trans-figuring flame.” — Lovecraft’s “Observations on Several Parts of America”, 1928.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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