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Post by deuce on Jul 18, 2018 9:59:34 GMT -5
HPL to Clark Ashton Smith on March 22, 1929: “By the way - that tale has just earned me an interesting letter from a curious old lady in Boston, a direct lineal descendant of the Salem witch Mary Easty, who was hanged on Gallows Hill Aug. 19, 1692. She hints at strange gifts and traditions handed down in her family, & asks me if I have access to any antient [ancient] secret witch-lore of New England... I shall answer the letter, & see if I can get the good old soul to relate some of the whispered witch-traditions! A story of Salem horror based on actual "inside dope" from a witch-blooded crone would surely be a striking novelty!”As far as I can tell, nobody has ever ascertained exactly who the "old lady" in question was.  |
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Post by ChrisLAdams on Jul 27, 2018 8:19:09 GMT -5
There are some cool events coming to Providence from the H. P. Lovecraft Arts and Science Council.
- July 30 - Arcade Asylum Author Series - Infernal Summer Edition (featuring authors Nathan Carson and Paul Di Filippo)
- August 11 - Arcade Asylum Author Series: Sonya Taaffe Book Launch (author of Forget The Sleepless Shores)
- August 17-19 - H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival (a collaboration between the H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival® and the Lovecraft Arts & Sciences Council)
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Post by johnnypt on Jul 27, 2018 11:08:33 GMT -5
A newly remastered Blu-Ray/DVD edition of The Unnamable will be released October 9, 2018. This is now available for pre-order.
www.amazon.com/Unnamable-Blu-ray-Mark-Kinsey-Stephenson/dp/B07DPFFT67"College students from Miskatonic University who retreat to an early 18th-century mansion for a weekend of lust are stalked by a fatalistic female in this horror film taken from a story by H.P. Lovecraft. The demon delights in tearing the limbs off her human victims to carry out a centuries-old family curse." Bonus features include:
- Audio Commentary with Charles Klausmeyer, Mark Stephenson, Laura Albert, Eben Ham, Camille Calvet, R. Christopher Biggs
- Video Interviews with R. Christopher Biggs special makeup effects artist & make up artist Camille Calvet
- Video Interview with Mark Parra,
- Video Interview with actors Charles Klausmeyer & Mark Kinsey Stephenson
- Video Interview with actor Eben Ham
- Video Interview with actress Laura Albert
- Stereo, 5.1 and DTS Surround Sound
 For the sequel, they did the Statement of Randolph Carter and got real stars: John Rhys-Davies, David Warner, Peter Breck from the Big Valley and (for these kind of pictures) Maria Ford and Julie Strain. OK, those last three are stretches, but hey, you know them from other things. |
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Post by deuce on Aug 29, 2018 13:21:23 GMT -5
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Post by kullagain on Sept 10, 2018 19:08:44 GMT -5
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Post by kullagain on Sept 10, 2018 19:11:24 GMT -5
That same director directed centurion shortly after, a move about Romans harassing Picts and the Picts resorting to horrible measures in response. What a coincidence
Side note:Neil Marshall doesn’t understand Howard’s tone (esp Bran Mak Morn stories) at all but that does not deny the influence in other dress and respects.
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Post by ChrisLAdams on Sept 12, 2018 13:21:17 GMT -5
This is a fascinating piece of H. P. Lovecraft memorabilia. Going up for auction at Heritage Auctions is the Lovecraft family bible.
Description from Heritage Auctions: "[H. P. Lovecraft, association]. The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments. Philadelphia: A. J. Holman & Co., 1881. Holman's Edition, H. P. Lovecraft's family's Bible, with his birth record and the various records of his family members. Large quarto (11.625 x 9.25 x 2.375 inches; 295 x 235 x 61 mm.). [4], 9-14, xvi, 1-16, [1]-104, [2], 1-48, viii, [9]-640, 1-104, [4], [641]-[848], 1-32, 1-44, 1-36 pages. Frontispiece and fifteen additional inserted plates; in-text and full-page engravings; maps. Heavily colored brown contemporary leather; stamped in blind and gilt. Marbled endpapers. All edges trimmed and gilt. Chipping and wear to binding, particularly at hinges, head and foot of spine, corners; small areas of white soiling to boards, pale yellow streak to rear board; dark soiling at spine, gilt-stamped title on front board; evidence of attempt to recolor leather with what appears to be brown paint running length of hinges, some splashed onto bottom edge of text block; repairs made to inner hinges. Some scratching, rubbing away of gilt from edges of text block. Occasional marginal thumb soiling, short tears scattered throughout interior of text block; some offsetting of plates onto protective tissue. Stain and tear to page 101 of "Dictionary." Damp stain at fore-edge of majority of New Testament. Good. Family Bible gifted to Lovecraft's mother: "Miss S. Susie Phillips. From her Mother. March 22nd, 1889." Marriage certificate of Winfield S. Lovecraft and Sarah S. Phillips inserted between pages 102 and 103 of Apocrypha. Decorative leaves with marriage, birth, and death inscriptions found just before New Testament, include the following: "Howard Phillips Lovecraft born Aug. 20th, 1890. Providence, R. I., 94 Angell Street." Much later inscriptions in a different pen and hand note the deaths of Sarah and H. P. Lovecraft."   |
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Post by johnnypt on Sept 12, 2018 13:25:35 GMT -5
This is a fascinating piece of H. P. Lovecraft memorabilia. Going up for auction at Heritage Auctions is the Lovecraft family bible.
Description from Heritage Auctions: "[H. P. Lovecraft, association]. The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments. Philadelphia: A. J. Holman & Co., 1881. Holman's Edition, H. P. Lovecraft's family's Bible, with his birth record and the various records of his family members. Large quarto (11.625 x 9.25 x 2.375 inches; 295 x 235 x 61 mm.). [4], 9-14, xvi, 1-16, [1]-104, [2], 1-48, viii, [9]-640, 1-104, [4], [641]-[848], 1-32, 1-44, 1-36 pages. Frontispiece and fifteen additional inserted plates; in-text and full-page engravings; maps. Heavily colored brown contemporary leather; stamped in blind and gilt. Marbled endpapers. All edges trimmed and gilt. Chipping and wear to binding, particularly at hinges, head and foot of spine, corners; small areas of white soiling to boards, pale yellow streak to rear board; dark soiling at spine, gilt-stamped title on front board; evidence of attempt to recolor leather with what appears to be brown paint running length of hinges, some splashed onto bottom edge of text block; repairs made to inner hinges. Some scratching, rubbing away of gilt from edges of text block. Occasional marginal thumb soiling, short tears scattered throughout interior of text block; some offsetting of plates onto protective tissue. Stain and tear to page 101 of "Dictionary." Damp stain at fore-edge of majority of New Testament. Good. Family Bible gifted to Lovecraft's mother: "Miss S. Susie Phillips. From her Mother. March 22nd, 1889." Marriage certificate of Winfield S. Lovecraft and Sarah S. Phillips inserted between pages 102 and 103 of Apocrypha. Decorative leaves with marriage, birth, and death inscriptions found just before New Testament, include the following: "Howard Phillips Lovecraft born Aug. 20th, 1890. Providence, R. I., 94 Angell Street." Much later inscriptions in a different pen and hand note the deaths of Sarah and H. P. Lovecraft."From the "and you didn't think he had one" category... :-) |
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Post by ChrisLAdams on Sept 12, 2018 13:28:31 GMT -5
This is a fascinating piece of H. P. Lovecraft memorabilia. Going up for auction at Heritage Auctions is the Lovecraft family bible.
Description from Heritage Auctions: "[H. P. Lovecraft, association]. The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments. Philadelphia: A. J. Holman & Co., 1881. Holman's Edition, H. P. Lovecraft's family's Bible, with his birth record and the various records of his family members. Large quarto (11.625 x 9.25 x 2.375 inches; 295 x 235 x 61 mm.). [4], 9-14, xvi, 1-16, [1]-104, [2], 1-48, viii, [9]-640, 1-104, [4], [641]-[848], 1-32, 1-44, 1-36 pages. Frontispiece and fifteen additional inserted plates; in-text and full-page engravings; maps. Heavily colored brown contemporary leather; stamped in blind and gilt. Marbled endpapers. All edges trimmed and gilt. Chipping and wear to binding, particularly at hinges, head and foot of spine, corners; small areas of white soiling to boards, pale yellow streak to rear board; dark soiling at spine, gilt-stamped title on front board; evidence of attempt to recolor leather with what appears to be brown paint running length of hinges, some splashed onto bottom edge of text block; repairs made to inner hinges. Some scratching, rubbing away of gilt from edges of text block. Occasional marginal thumb soiling, short tears scattered throughout interior of text block; some offsetting of plates onto protective tissue. Stain and tear to page 101 of "Dictionary." Damp stain at fore-edge of majority of New Testament. Good. Family Bible gifted to Lovecraft's mother: "Miss S. Susie Phillips. From her Mother. March 22nd, 1889." Marriage certificate of Winfield S. Lovecraft and Sarah S. Phillips inserted between pages 102 and 103 of Apocrypha. Decorative leaves with marriage, birth, and death inscriptions found just before New Testament, include the following: "Howard Phillips Lovecraft born Aug. 20th, 1890. Providence, R. I., 94 Angell Street." Much later inscriptions in a different pen and hand note the deaths of Sarah and H. P. Lovecraft."From the "and you didn't think he had one" category... :-) You're actually right. I get emails from Heritage, and I admit, I did a freaking double-take when I saw: [H. P. Lovecraft, association]. The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments. |
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Post by Ningauble on Sept 13, 2018 12:47:54 GMT -5
From the "and you didn't think he had one" category... :-)
He actually had several (at least three are listed in Lovecraft's Library, and this may be a fourth one).
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Post by deuce on Sept 14, 2018 10:19:59 GMT -5
From the "and you didn't think he had one" category... :-)
He actually had several (at least three are listed in Lovecraft's Library, and this may be a fourth one).
It was given to HPL's mother and has his death recorded in it. This must have belonged to one of the aunts after HPL's death (and possibly prior to that as well). My guess, anyway. |
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Post by Char-Vell on Sept 19, 2018 9:23:35 GMT -5
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Post by ChrisLAdams on Sept 19, 2018 9:56:54 GMT -5
Darn skippy that'd be cool. I've wished for years there could be more serious HPL films. I guess the problem is that much of Lovecraft's allure is in his descriptive prose which can be depicted in a film in moments. The shortness of the material would be a breeding ground for non-fan writers to fill with tons of TnA shots and silly stuff. I can only imagine my disappointment if I sat through a modern-day production of The Lurking Fear . . . and it was about a bunch of college-aged, boozing frolickers staying at a lake-side cabin. What I really wish they'd pursue is the Kadath stuff. Frakkkkkk. That'd be so wicked. The dream-cycle stuff also has the horror elements most are enamored with, and is probably my favorite material by HPL (Dream-Quest is the theme of two paintings I've done which shows how big a fan I am). |
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Post by KiramidHead on Sept 19, 2018 14:49:43 GMT -5
I'm curious as to how Stanley will approach it. His Moreau script was a very good translation of the original story for the then current times. Hopefully this will be better than Die Farbe, which started out pretty well before getting a bit too cute with its narrative trickery.
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Post by zarono on Sept 19, 2018 16:44:30 GMT -5
I'd like to see it happen, it's one of HPL's finest works and with the right director and budget it could be great. Can't really say if Stanley's the guy who can do it since all I've seen from him is "Hardware" and the segment in "Theater Bizarre" that was based on CAS's "Mother of Toads" but he is wearing a Shub-Niggurath t-shirt in that pic so I'll give him some XP for that.  If it ever does get made the bar for movie adaptations of Colour is pretty low, I haven't seen Die Farbe but Die Monster Die isn't that great and The Curse tries to follow the original story a bit closer but ends up being goofy, however Claude Akins space acne is a high point.  |
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