{"id":66729,"date":"2026-06-23T20:48:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T20:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/?p=66729"},"modified":"2026-06-23T21:12:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T21:12:31","slug":"hplinks-90-innsmouth-lit-fest-new-poe-book-cross-plain-pictures-beastarium-book-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2026\/06\/23\/hplinks-90-innsmouth-lit-fest-new-poe-book-cross-plain-pictures-beastarium-book-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"HPLinks #90 – Innsmouth Lit Fest, new Poe book, Cross Plain pictures, Beastarium book, and more…"},"content":{"rendered":"

HPLinks<\/a> #90. <\/p>\n

* I have tweaked Tentaclii’<\/em>s CSS so as to change quote italics to a normal style. This should be retroactively affecting all quotes in posts on this blog. Quotations are now a bit less fancified, but more instantly readable.<\/p>\n

* Here in the UK, the Innsmouth Literary Festival<\/a> is a gathering of Mythos writers and more. It will run again on 19th September 2026. Early-bird tickets and trader table information, now available. <\/p>\n

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* Mark Fisher’s book The Weird and the Eerie<\/em> has appeared in Portuguese translation as O Estranho e o Sinistro<\/a><\/em> (June 2026).<\/p>\n

* A new academic book Poe Spaces: Within and Beyond the Spatial Turn<\/a><\/em>, with 19 new essays on Poe’s life, works, and literary afterlife.<\/p>\n

* The latest issue of the Spanish journal Revista Helice<\/em> has “Necronomicones<\/em> Espanoles: La influencia del grimorio Lovecraftiano en las letras Espanolas recientes”<\/a> (‘Spanish Necronomicons<\/em>: the influence of the Lovecraftian grimoire on recent Spanish literature’). Freely available online.<\/p>\n

* A few more items arising from the Howard Days event. The Dark Man Journal<\/em> posts an Interview with Rusty Burke<\/a> on YouTube. And GeoLiminal<\/em> ponders Robert E. Howard and Evolution<\/a> with the aid of the letters and more. I’ll add my own contribution, a couple of evocative images of Cross Plains, restored and colorised. Possibly early 1920s, judging by the female fashions?<\/p>\n

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* Up for sale… “Archive of over 125 letters, 1966-1983, on poetry, music, Korea, Lovecraft, horror stories, science fiction, Arkham House”<\/a>… “from James Wade (1930-83) to fellow poet and ghost-story author John Alfred Taylor … Wade’s work appeared in [many Lovecraftian] Mythos anthologies”.<\/p>\n

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* New to me, a Lovecraft-as-character book titled Theory of MultiDreams: A Cosmic-Dream Investigation by H.P. Lovecraft<\/a><\/em> (2017). In French, it seems — despite the English title, cover and blurb. <\/p>\n

by author and poet Jean-Philippe Cazier [and] loosely inspired by the contemporary astrophysicist Aurelien Barrau\u2019s work on \u201cMultiverses\u201d and by the stories of H.P. Lovecraft. The book entwines astrophysics and fantasy literature through fiction, deconstructing the frameworks of narration, logic, identity, space and time. The story commences with the disappearance of one of its characters, developing a kaleidoscopic narrative in which identities proliferate, when dreams become the means for travel through space and time and in which Lovecraft himself seemingly becomes one of the characters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

* The Blogging Goth<\/em> celebrates Trent Reznor vs H.P. Lovecraft: Quake<\/em> at 30<\/a>…<\/p>\n

Thirty years ago, legendary game studio id Software released Quake \u2013 the successor project to possibly the most influential first-person shooter in the world, Doom. The setting this time was dominated by medieval, gothic imagery and the player had to contend with entities directly referencing H.P. Lovecraft\u2019s Cthulhu Mythos, all set to a dark ambient soundtrack by none other than Trent Reznor\u2019s Nine Inch Nails.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

* Feuilleton<\/em> on his illustration of “The Father of Serpents”<\/a>, together with a new portrait of Yig.<\/p>\n

* Due in September 2026 in German, H.P. Lovecraft Bestiarium: Lovecrafts fantastische Wesen. Illustriert von Enrique Alcatena – Ubersetzt von Florian F. Marzin<\/em> (‘H.P. Lovecraft Bestiary: Lovecraft’s fantastic creatures. Illustrated by Enrique Alcatena – Translated by Florian F. Marzin’). Appears to be a translation of Bestiario<\/a><\/em> which was a 2008 Spanish edition.<\/p>\n

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* A large auction-scan of the original ink-and-whiteout header illustration for the 1925 Weird Tales<\/em> appearance of “The Festival”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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* New on Archive.org, Fantastic Novels Magazine Reference Guide<\/a><\/em> and Famous Fantastic Mysteries Reference Guide<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

* And finally, also new on Archive.org, a 120-issue run of Fate Magazine: True Stories of the Strange and Unknown<\/em><\/a>. Twaddle by the bucket-load, but also possible partial inspiration for Mythos fiction and RPGs?<\/p>\n

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— End-quotes —<\/em> <\/p>\n

[Lovecraft visits Wilbraham and Mrs Beebe and Mrs Miniter, and their household with] “… seven cats, two dogs, two horses, two kine, and one hired boy. Far to the west, across marshy meadows where at evening the fire-flies dance in incredibly fantastic profusion, the benign bulk of Wilbraham Mountain rises purple and mystical. The region, being very old and remote, is full of the most extraordinary folklore; some of which will certainly find lodgement in my future stories if I ever live to write any more.” — Lovecraft to Zelia Bishop, July 1928. The setting became that of “The Dunwich Horror”. <\/p>\n

[Among my correspondents] “… I hear frequently from the old lady descended from Salem witches. She sent several moderately gruesome legends lately, but in general I find it more natural to invent cosmic horrors of my own rather than to utilize actual folklore incidents”. — Lovecraft to Miss Toldridge, October 1930. (The correspondent was likely to be Sarah Symonds<\/a>, the correspondence now lost).<\/p>\n

[my] “… artificial names of unearthly places and gods and persons and entities — there are different ways of coining them. To a large extent they are designed to suggest — either closely or remotely — certain names in actual history or folklore which have weird or sinister associations connected with them. Thus ‘Yuggoth’ has a sort of Arabic or Hebraic cast, to suggest certain words passed down from antiquity in the magical formulae contained in Moorish and Jewish manuscripts. Other synthetic names like ‘Nug’ and ‘Yeb’ suggest the dark mysterious tone of Tartar or Thibetan folklore.” — Lovecraft to Rimel, February 1934.<\/p>\n

“I rather prefer purely original weird concepts as opposed to those derived from genuine folklore. Authentic folk-beliefs are likely to be insipid, ill-proportioned, freakish, and in general far less aesthetically effective than concepts formed by an author with a specific artistic purpose in mind.” — Lovecraft to Hoffmann Price, May 1935.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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