{"id":66380,"date":"2026-01-22T06:08:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T06:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/?p=66380"},"modified":"2026-01-22T06:12:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T06:12:02","slug":"hplinks-70-full-phd-reviews-spectral-realms-cas-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2026\/01\/22\/hplinks-70-full-phd-reviews-spectral-realms-cas-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"HPLinks #70 – full PhD, reviews, Spectral Realms, CAS conference,"},"content":{"rendered":"

HPLinks<\/a> #70. <\/p>\n

* The PhD thesis Eldritch Theology: A comparative study of Lovecraft as theologian<\/a><\/em> (2025) is now available for full download. Previously there was only a long abstract.<\/p>\n

* Hippocampus Press has newly listed Spectral Realms<\/em> No. 24<\/a>. Full of new poems, plus the new S.T. Joshi article “Clark Ashton Smith: Before The Star-Treader”<\/em>. <\/p>\n

* S.T. Joshi’s latest blog post<\/a> has his report on the recent Clark Ashton Smith conference…<\/p>\n

All in all, the conference was a rousing success. The panels were videotaped, and I imagine they will be uploaded onto YouTube or some other such platform in due course of time. We hope to reprise the event — and make it span two days rather than just one — in two years\u2019 time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

* The contents list<\/a> of the new book Adventurous Liberation: H.P. Lovecraft in Florida<\/em>.<\/p>\n

* The Pulp Super-Fan<\/em> reviews the book The Man Who Collected Lovecraft: How R.H. Barlow Built His Vaults of Yoh-Vombis<\/em><\/a>, and also usefully describes the appendices.<\/p>\n

* SpraguedeCampFan<\/em> reviews Fred Blosser on Robert E. Howard<\/a>, in part one of a series of posts. <\/p>\n

* The Robert E. Howard Days organisers note “Only Five Months until Howard Days!”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* More scans of the old fanzine Dagon<\/em> have arrived on Archive.org. Mostly gaming and Mythos tales, but note that Dagon<\/em> No. 15 (1986)<\/a> has Robert M. Price on “Mythos Names and How to Say Them”.<\/p>\n

* The Bayou Film Festival (Lafayette, USA) will premiere Dreams of a Dead God<\/em> on 24th January 2026. The new 36-minute movie tells of the events in Louisiana after the events of Lovecraft’s “The Call of Cthulhu”. Part one-shack drama and part ‘found-footage’, it seems.<\/p>\n

* The Humble Bundle website has a Chaosium RPG bundle<\/a>, with proceeds to the World Wildlife Fund. Valid for the next two weeks. Talking of wildlife, note the the full bundle also includes the books Petersen’s Guide to Lovecraftian Horrors<\/em> and Malleus Monstrorum Vol. 1 Monsters of the Mythos.<\/em><\/p>\n

* An announcement for Lovecraftian Days 2026<\/a>, set for the city of Prague from 9th-16th April 2026. This will be a…<\/p>\n

week-long celebration dedicated to H.P. Lovecraft’s cosmic horror legacy and its influence on gaming. The festival will bring together dozens of publishers and developers worldwide for a week of new game announcements and releases, exclusive demos and early access opportunities, special discounts, developer interviews, and community events. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

* And finally, “a bizarre [theme-park] attraction very much inspired by the cosmic horror of H.P. Lovecraft. It was located in a park called Mirapolis”. That was the first theme-park in France and it was based around attractions inspired by imaginative literature. Parts of the Lovecraft section’s mechanicals were later re-used in a U.S. dinosaur attraction in 1994. On YouTube, theme park historian Poseidon Entertainment goes in search of “The Lost Lovecraftian Horror Ride”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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— End-quotes —<\/em> <\/p>\n

“… he [Lovecraft] tried all the soporific stunts at Revere” [… we went] “to Revere Beach, where Mr. Lovecraft dropped eighty-five feet and was all over.” (Mrs. Miniter, recalling Lovecraft on a roller coaster \/ water-drop ride at the Boston Revere Beach, in Lovecraft Remembered<\/em>, page 83).<\/p>\n

“Lovecraft and Albert Sandusky did the eighty-five-foot-drop switchback three times in succession [at Revere] and complained bitterly of the tameness of it all […] Picture, if you will, the philosophical form of one Henry Padget-Lowe, Edward Softly, Theobald Jr., H.P.L. [i.e. Lovecraft and his psuedonyms], popping out and coming bouncing toward us. It was a screaming scream.” — George Houtain, recalling the same day at Revere Beach. <\/p>\n

As well as riding all the rides, according to Randy Everts Lovecraft also had his palm read by a palmist and answered a ‘psychological questionnaire’ in the sideshows at Revere.<\/p>\n

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He also passed by Revere Beach on his way to Salem a little later, on a more sedate set of rails…<\/p>\n

“I set out for my favourite antique Salem region. This time I went on the electrick coaches [electric tram-cars], twice having to change (at Revere Beach and at Lynn) before attaining Salem. ‘Tis a ride of extream attractiveness, and must have form’d a diversion of prime magnitude in the days when open cars ran direct from Boston to Salem. But all things decay, and nothing more so than the rural tramways of New-England.” — Lovecraft to Galpin and Long, 1st May 1923.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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