Oscar Sanmartin

Melding Joseph Cornell with a Lovecraftian vision, Oscar Sanmartin‘s box “Diorama 3″…

Cthulhu Parade, 1873

Parade costume design, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1873.

Story soundtracks

Nice concept. WistRec‘s “sound report” (soundtrack) is specially designed for listening while reading H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Colour Out of Space”, in the form of a 3″ CD and a printed booklet of the story. Limited to 100 copies. WistRec is a niche Irish label.

Cosmic terror from Poe to Lovecraft

Sandro D. Fossemo. “Cosmic terror from Poe to Lovecraft: the fear of unknown from the abyss of the soul to cosmic chaos“. (Seems to have been published online Dec 2010. No traces found suggesting it has been made available other than online).

 [ Hat-tip: Francesco Salvatore ]

Xenoarchaeology and Lovecraft

Astrowright muses today on what Lovecraft got right from the perspective on xenoarchaeology (the scientific imagining of the archaeological discovery of physical remains of alien civilisations).

Above: Jack Kirby depicting archaeologists discovering evidence of ancient space travelers, The Eternals #1.

Footnotes for WordPress

A nice new footnotes plugin for WordPress, which may be of interest to blogging Lovecraft scholars. It uses simple square brackets, which must have a number at the start of them. It accepts HTML links inside the brackets. I’d love to see this plugin come as standard with the free WordPress.com -hosted blogs…

To have the smaller font size on the footnotes, paste this CSS into your theme’s styles CSS, probably at the foot of the font section. The plugin doesn’t add this CSS automatically.

Thomas Debitus

A super new digital painting by Thomas Debitus…

See it full-size here. Looks as though it could be fairly easily expanded to the right, to make it the right size for a book cover.

Wilum Pugmire looks at the Annotated Holmes, reveals Annotated Lovecraft

Wilum Pugmire takes a look at the kind of sumptious production values we can expect from the just-announced New Annotated Lovecraft edition — set to be published by W.W. Norton in 2015…

How far Lovecraft’s work has come, from being published only ephemerally and on the cheapest woodpulp paper of the pulp magazines. Although I guess Norton will have to use the public domain texts, and not Joshi’s revised and corrected texts?

More academic works

A couple of new academic full-text works of interest, freely available online…

* Joakim Bengtsson. Tentative outline: the Ending and the Solution of Conflicts in [? name truncated, title not on document - probably "...the Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft"]. 10,000 words, seems to be a Masters dissertation? Sweden, but in English. The author appears in the cast list for the Swedish Lovecraftian short movie “Fyren” (‘Keeper of the Light’, 2009).

* Johan Wijkmark. “One of the Most Intensely Exciting Secrets”: The Antarctic in American Literature, 1820-1849. Karlstad University, 2009. Seems to be a PhD thesis, prettified as a monograph by the university press. In English.

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