{"id":66854,"date":"2026-08-13T19:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T19:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/?p=66854"},"modified":"2026-08-13T19:56:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T19:56:05","slug":"hplinks-97-bloch-biography-ottos-daemons-worm-ebook-robert-e-price-interview-sea-breezes-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2026\/08\/13\/hplinks-97-bloch-biography-ottos-daemons-worm-ebook-robert-e-price-interview-sea-breezes-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"HPLinks #97 – Bloch biography, Otto’s daemons, Worm ebook, Robert E. Price interview, sea-breezes and more…"},"content":{"rendered":"

HPLinks<\/a> #97. <\/p>\n

A less-full-than usual HPLinks<\/em> this week, what with these being ‘the dog days’ of August and what with many goodies released last week ahead of NecronomiCon 2026.<\/em><\/p>\n

* A new full biography of a member of the Lovecraft Circle, Psycho Century – Robert Bloch, American Horror Master<\/a><\/em> (2026). Being… “the first full literary biography of this immensely influential author.”<\/p>\n

* From the Concordia University Research Repository, the Masters dissertation “Daemons From the Stars: Discerning the Mysterium Horrendum in Otto and Lovecraft”<\/a> (2026). Freely available online.<\/p>\n

* In a timely post, amid the whirring of air-conditioning, Lonely Power Poles<\/em> appreciates Lovecraft’s “Cool Air”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* The Dreamands collection of tales by Gary Myers, The Country of the Worm: Excursions Beyond the Wall of Sleep<\/a><\/em> (2022), now seemingly has a $10 ebook version. The last time I looked the ebook was of the 2013 version.<\/p>\n

* The latest July 2026 edition of the podcast 30+ Minutes with H.P. Lovecraft<\/em> is “The Price of Fiction”<\/a>, a 90 minute interview with Robert E. Price.<\/p>\n

* Possibly an interesting curiosity, Dunhams Destroys Lovecraft!<\/a><\/em> ‘zine. Crowdfunding on Indiegogo<\/a>, and also soliciting contributions. The ‘zine… <\/p>\n

is an upcoming quarterly journal published by Dunhams Manor Press. It will feature parodies, satires, farces, art, and all around irreverent Lovecraftian fun. Note: This is NOT an anti-Lovecraft publication.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

* IGN reviews Chaosium’s new Miskatonic Tales: Journey to Innsmouth<\/em> Board Game<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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* Avatar of Chaos<\/em> examines Kadath<\/a><\/em> (1979)… “which appears to be the first Lovecraftian video game, [and] is loosely inspired by H.P. Lovecraft\u2019s The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath”<\/em>.<\/p>\n

* The acclaimed major AAA videogame The Sinking City 2<\/em> is set for an 18th August 2026 release, with an Innsmouth-alike setting and an open world.<\/p>\n

* My quick and vaguely Lovecraftian demo video<\/a>, from the amazing new Minimax H3 video generator. Generated locally and quickly on my entry-level RTX 3060 12Gb graphics-card. Surprisingly, all but the tech-press have ignored this major game-changing open and free model.<\/p>\n

* London’s esoteric bookshops are starting to list their autumn talks. These include An Evening with Lovecraft at Watkins Books in London<\/a>, set for 20th August 2026.<\/p>\n

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Another London bookshop talk of possible interest to some is “The Golden Dawn and the Arts”<\/a>, set for 29th September 2026.<\/p>\n

* And finally, those now arriving at NecronomiCon 2026 in Providence may want to note that the Extended Programming page<\/a> was updated yesterday. The page also has flyers\/posters for the theatrical events. <\/p>\n

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— End-quotes —<\/em><\/p>\n

It seems suitable for high summer and for the advent of the beside-the-ocean Necronomicon 2026, to offer a little trawl of Lovecraft appreciating the cooling sea-breezes…<\/em><\/p>\n

On the sea-breezes of Charleston… ” At twilight — a very brief subtropical twilight — the birds sang in the gardens, and an insidious perfume of many blossoms floated cryptically over the whole city. Cool breezes sprang up, and those who disliked warmth would walk along the Battery, or White Point Gardens, at the very tip of the peninsula, which fronts the spacious harbour and receives a sweep of air from across the low islands dividing the harbour from the open Atlantick.” — Lovecraft, “An Account of Charleston”.<\/p>\n

“The atmosphere makes me feel twenty years younger and one hundred percent better — and I really seem to have a surplus fund of energy for the first time since last August. The sea breeze is always blowing, and I have become as tanned as an Indian in less than a week.” — Lovecraft in Charleston, to Moe, May 1930.<\/p>\n

“And the screen Dracula<\/em> in 1931 — I saw the beginning of that in Miami, Fla. [Florida] — but couldn’t bear to watch it drag to its full term of dreariness, hence walked out into the fragrant tropic moonlight!” — Lovecraft to Farnsworth Wright, February 1933. <\/p>\n

“Darkness – sunset – dreams – mists – fever – madness – the tomb – the hills – the sea – the sky – the wind – all these, & many other things have seemed to me to retain a certain imaginative potency despite our actual scientific analyses of them.” — Lovecraft to Harold Farnese, September 1932.<\/p>\n

“… his spirit had dwelt all the eternity of an hour one summer afternoon very long ago, when he had slipt away from his nurse and let the warm sea-breeze lull him to sleep as he watched the clouds from the cliff near the village.\u201d [to dream of the city of Celephais, in the Valley of Ooth-Nargai] — Lovecraft, “Celephais”.<\/p>\n

“But in Kingsport strange tales are abroad, and even the Terrible Old Man admits a thing untold by his grandfather. [That …] when the wind sweeps boisterous out of the north past the high ancient house that is one with the firmament, there is broken at last that ominous, brooding silence [of the Strange High House, a silence that was] ever before the bane of Kingsport’s maritime cotters. And old folk tell of pleasing voices heard singing there, and of laughter that swells with joys beyond earth’s joys; and say that at evening the little low windows are brighter than formerly.” — Lovecraft, “The Strange High House in the Mist”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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