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Post by deuce on Feb 11, 2016 22:46:15 GMT -5
The Lovecraft Arts & Sciences Council just fired up a kickstarter to place a plaque at HPL's birthplace in Providence. They met their goal in no-time.  |
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Post by Jason Aiken on Feb 12, 2016 0:15:38 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Feb 12, 2016 8:41:50 GMT -5
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Post by robp on Feb 16, 2016 4:54:55 GMT -5
That's cool. We stopped over in Providence on our New England jaunt a few years back. Was surprised that there was nothing about HPL at all in the town, no plaque, memorial or anything. Good to see that it is being changed - I believe there is a bust at the library now?
PS - Hi Jason, have just been catching up on Pulp Crazy over the last few weeks, great listening, thanks!!
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Post by Jason Aiken on Feb 17, 2016 13:32:24 GMT -5
That's cool. We stopped over in Providence on our New England jaunt a few years back. Was surprised that there was nothing about HPL at all in the town, no plaque, memorial or anything. Good to see that it is being changed - I believe there is a bust at the library now? PS - Hi Jason, have just been catching up on Pulp Crazy over the last few weeks, great listening, thanks!! Thanks, Rob. I'm glad you're enjoying the show. That's indeed great that Providence is embracing HPL's legacy now. I'd love to make it up to the NecronomiCon they have there at some point. |
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Post by deuce on Feb 17, 2016 16:36:37 GMT -5
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Post by Ningauble on Feb 18, 2016 5:33:53 GMT -5
- I hear there is a bust at the library now? Yes, at the Athenaeum - financed by fans.h |
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Post by deuce on Feb 20, 2016 17:08:14 GMT -5
Eccentric Mythos author, WH Pugmire, posted this today:
I confess that I was feeling a wee bit down because of what seem'd to be an avalanche of anti-Lovecraft sentiment on ye Internet last year. But I held fast to S. T. [Joshi]'s assurance that the situation with the WFA and all that wou'd in no way affect Lovecraft's growing world-wide popularity. That popularity is important to me because I see it founded on the excellence of Lovecraft's writing and the genius of his imagination. So it really delights me to know that The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft was so amazingly successful and sold so well that a second volume will now appear.
I have a great fondness for those individual volumes of Lovecraft's tales in PS Publishing's LOVECRAFT ILLUSTRATED series, and was a bit saddened at the idea that the books weren't selling as well as all had hoped they would. Those first nine volumes are such fun, and some of the art is amazing. Thus I was delighted by this morning's announcement"
"Following the undreamed of success of the hitherto nine volumes in our HPL Pulps Library, we've persuaded artist Pete Von Sholly and Lovecraftian scholar S. T. Joshi to pleasure us yet again with the definitive versions of three further epic yarns--namely THE MOUND, THE HAUNTER OF THE DARK and THE THING ON THE DOORSTEP."
The jacket art for THE MOUND has since been posted online, and it looks wonderful. Although the story is never included in any selection of Lovecraft's best work, the novella is indeed his own creation, and it is fascinating. "The Haunter of the Dark" is my own favourite story by HPL, and I had hoped that it would be included in this series--so this news has me elated. All three new volumes will include brand new Introductions by S. T. Joshi and will use his definitive texts. As with ye earlier volumes, there will be some essays, old and new, following each individual story.
But what really pleases me is the reason for these forthcoming volumes: Lovecraft's modern popularity increases world-wide, and his books seem to be selling as never before. (This makes me curious to know what current editions of Lovecraft's fiction are available in bookstores now. I can't imagine that the Penguin editions are selling anywhere except in University bookstores, but I wou'd be happy to be proven wrong on that. Are the Del Rey editions still selling in stores? I have no clue because--I'm ashamed to admit--I almost never go to bookstores these days, getting almost all my books online. It's so much easier not having to face Seattle traffic,and I love hearing that *plop* when ye post-person drops a box of books on me doorstep.) These current hardcover editions are not inexpensive, but they sell well nonetheless--another testimony of Lovecraft's popularity.
I can never have too many editions of Lovecraft--just as I can never have too many editions of Shakespeare. I read these writers always, usually dipping into a story or a play every week or so. Pete Von Sholly's wonderful editions are a delight to read; I love falling under ye spell of Lovecraft's prose once more, then turning ye page and finding an illustration that brings to illustrated life the scene just read. Some younger readers may pick up these illustrated volumes far more readily than they would a non-illustrated edition, especially those youngsters who are fond of graphic novels and such. There are, indeed, more and more graphic editions of Lovecraft than ever before.
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Post by deuce on Feb 26, 2016 21:55:28 GMT -5
Leslie Klinger, editor of the hugely popular The New Annotated HP Lovecraft, posted this recently:
"I'm very pleased to hear from my publisher Liveright/Norton that New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft is doing very well--so well that they'd like me to do a second volume, tentatively titled New H. P. Lovecraft: Beyond the Mythos. Although that first volume contained 22 stories, we omitted a number of great tales simply to avoid making the book too expensive. As a result, terrific stories like 'The Outsider.' 'The Rats in the Walls,' 'The Music of Erich Zann,' 'The Shunned House,' and the novel Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath had to be left out of volume 1. The second volume will have another 23 stories, including some little-known gems like 'Ex Oblivione' as well as all of his other famous tales. The list of stories I plan to include is below. Of course, there will be dozen and dozens of photos and illustrations again, with a little help from my friends (again). I'll also be working with my friend S. T. Joshi to use the most accurate text possible, based on his brilliant Variorum edition. I hope that eventually Liveright/Norton will put out the two volumes as a boxed set. I'll let you know the release date when it's set, but it surely won't be before 2017. . . .
LIST OF STORIES (in order written)
The Tomb
Polaris
Transition of Juan Romero
The Doom that Came to Sarnath
Ex Oblivione
The Terrible Old Man
Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family
The Cats of Ulthar
Celephais
The Temple
The Outsider
The Other Gods
The Music of Erich Zann
The Quest of Iranon
The Lurking Fear
The Rats in the Walls
The Shunned House
The Horror at Red Hook
He
Cool Air
The Strange High House in the Mist
Pickman's Model
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath"
This looks to be another great volume for HPL fans. Klinger has mentioned a desire to bring REH and Clark Ashton Smith more attention. If this new volume (2017) does well, we might see something very cool.
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Post by deuce on Feb 27, 2016 13:11:59 GMT -5
An excellent website (no longer updated) chocked full of HPL research: chrisperridas.blogspot.com/Perridas even spots/figures out items that stumped Joshi. Plus, he's an REH fan. |
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Post by Jason Aiken on Mar 3, 2016 2:04:38 GMT -5
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Post by Ningauble on Mar 3, 2016 8:33:26 GMT -5
The Machen influence can be ruled out -- HPL didn't read Machen until after he had written "The Tree". |
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Post by Jason Aiken on Mar 3, 2016 17:30:17 GMT -5
The Machen influence can be ruled out -- HPL didn't read Machen until after he had written "The Tree". That makes sense. Thanks for pointing that out, Ningauble. I'm going to make an effort to remove that digital footprint. So it doesn't show up in Internet Searches. I found two sources stating that and what do you know, the only source was an UNSOURCED wikipedia entry. |
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Post by Ningauble on Mar 4, 2016 18:02:03 GMT -5
The Machen influence can be ruled out -- HPL didn't read Machen until after he had written "The Tree". That makes sense. Thanks for pointing that out, Ningauble. I'm going to make an effort to remove that digital footprint. So it doesn't show up in Internet Searches. I found two sources stating that and what do you know, the only source was an UNSOURCED wikipedia entry. Heh -- not surprised.  BTW, I think I've managed to push back HPL's discovery of Machen slightly earlier than Joshi & Schultz say in An H. P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia -- they have it as "late spring of 1923", but on March 29 of that year HPL wrote to Morton all fanboyin' over Machen already, saying that he already read "House of Souls". |
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Post by deuce on Mar 4, 2016 21:26:50 GMT -5
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BTW, I think I've managed to push back HPL's discovery of Machen slightly earlier than Joshi & Schultz say in An H. P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia -- they have it as "late spring of 1923", but on March 29 of that year HPL wrote to Morton all fanboyin' over Machen already, saying that he already read "House of Souls".