31 Thursday May 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
A new Kickstarter project, A Shadow out of Providence, described as…
“a play and two short stories” […] “treats Lovecraft the writer, the thinker, and the cultural phenomenon” [via a] metafictional re-working of Lovecraftical material”.
28 Monday May 2012
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23 Wednesday May 2012
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Nice bit of art featuring Lovecraft, on the poster for the recent film festival…
22 Tuesday May 2012
Posted in Scholarly works
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News of an upcoming academic conference (or perhaps a conference strand?) on Lovecraft, to be held in Vermont — Weird Lovecraft: H.P. Lovecraft, Weird Tales, and the American Horror Canon…
“The College of St. Joseph is actively looking for paper proposals that explore the way that Lovecraft and/or Weird Tales helped construct the American horror canon or the American horrific aesthetic.”
“Papers will be presented at the College of St. Joseph’s popular culture conference, held 26-27th October 2012.”
See the PDF for details. Sadly, I see that the deadline for abstacts has passed — it was 15th May. Better initial publicity needed, next time, methinks.
21 Monday May 2012
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This has got to be about the coolest team-up comic art since Jack Kirby drew Marvel Team-Up. H.P. Lovecraft and Nikola Tesla, by Travis Pitts. Immediate animated webseries of this neeeeded…
Until then, poster-size versions now available…
19 Saturday May 2012
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Open access to The Bookman USA (1895-1933) and The Bookman UK (1891-1934).
Search via Google:
site:http://www.unz.org/Pub/Bookman keyword
Also quite a few pulps from the 1940s and 1950s, including Fantastic Novels and Fantastic Adventures and some later Weird Tales, which have Lovecraft reprints.
You can also search the entire archive via:
site:http://www.unz.org/Pub/ Lovecraft
16 Wednesday May 2012
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A new free Photoshop tutorial, showing how to combine photographs and digital paint to create a matte painting of a Tibetan mountain monastery…
16 Wednesday May 2012
Posted in Scholarly works
A new conference on the monstrous. 1st Global Conference on Monstrous Geographies: places and spaces of monstrosity. 18th – 20th July 2012, University of Oxford, UK…
“What is the relationship between the monstrous and the geographic – those places monsters inhabit, but also places that are configured as being monstrous in and of themselves?”
Interesting. Sadly the deadline for papers has long passed, or I might have submitted something cut from my most recent book on Lovecraft and New York City. It looks like it would cost me about £500 to attend. If a kind benefactor would care to donate that amount, I can guarantee a substantial plain English 6,000+ word report soon after the event.
15 Tuesday May 2012
Posted in Podcasts etc.
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Podcast (mp3 link) from the Sci-Fi London festival…
“Alex Fitch chairs a panel discussion on Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft, the two American heavyweights of classic horror and fantastic literature, with contributors including novelists China Mieville and Denise Mina, and illustrators Mark Stafford and Alice Duke.”
14 Monday May 2012
A new genus and species has been named after Lovecraft. “Nanocthulhu lovecrafti” is an unusual bisexual wasp, and is described in the Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington.
More photos here.