Please support my work through Patreon

This post is rather important! Today I’ve launched my new Patreon donations campaign. I can’t continue to work on Lovecraft without your help. To guarantee the future production of new work, please consider pledging $1 a month or more through my page at the popular Patreon crowdfunder service. Your support will help to keep Tentaclii thriving, keep my new discoveries flowing, and (if enough patrons are found) will even make my books free to all.

I’m also offering some small-but-nice Rewards to my new patrons. Please take a look.

The principle of Patreon is simple — be patron of the arts. It’s safe to sign up at Patreon, and it then only takes a few seconds to plug in your PayPal ID.

If you can’t donate then you can still help. For instance, by sharing my Patreon page on Facebook. Or by showing it to others in person at the NecronomiCon 2015 convention — perhaps via your tablet/phone, at your vendor table, or by mentioning it during a panel. I also welcome reader suggestions for new or improved Patreon Rewards. Thanks!

“Lovecraft on the Web” repaired and updated

Checked the links and repaired/deleted as needed, on my “Lovecraft on the Web” Directory. About fifteen links have “vanished amidst a tiny vortex of unwholesome bubbles”.

Checked and repaired Open Lovecraft

Checked and repaired all links on the Open Lovecraft page. The following items have been carried away by night gaunts…

An Awe-ful Integrity: The Science-Fiction Horror of H.P. Lovecraft.

Perceptual and relational deictic shift and the development of ‘atmosphere’ in H.P. Lovecraft’s short story The Colour Out of Space.

The Genetics of Horror: Sex and Racism in H.P. Lovecraft’s Fiction.

Kosmicki horor, gotsko telo i tekst: H.P. Lovecraft “Senka nad Insmutom”.

The Cosmic Angle of Regarding: mathematics and the fiction of H.P. Lovecraft.

Le temps du reve Lovecraftien, ou l’elaboration d’un temps du mythe.

H.P. Lovecraft: a transient speck in wide infinity. (Lovecraft as a poet).

Os Mitos de H.P. Lovecraft e a cultura juvenil.

Antares issues 08 and 00.

Comments open

Apparently Tentaclii’s “Allow people to post comments” checkbox was unchecked in my WordPress. Strange, and I’m not sure how it switched itself off (probably a WordPress update) but it’s fixed now. Comments are open for 14 days on new posts.

Happy Christmas from Tentaclii

So the Yuletide season rolls around, for another year. Happy Christmas, and here’s a rather excellent illustration — which can serve as a Christmas card for readers…

Picture: the UK’s Nelson Evergreen (the canvas name of Neil Evans).

Open Lovecraft link-checked

The Open Lovecraft page, on this blog, has had its annual link-check and repair.

Lovecraft on the Web, linkrot purge

I’ve given the ‘Lovecraft on the Web’ directory its annual link check.

Fixed most moved links, unless it’s simply the case that someone has paid a vanity fee to remove the www. — http://www.site.com

Removed URLs (taken to Yuggoth by ye buzzing ones): Pulpfest/Pulpcon; Old Time Radio Horror; Miskatonic Archive; Mythos Books; Nemonymous; Lovecraft Scholars (Yahoo Group); Creeping List (Yahoo Group); Necropsy: The Review of Horror Fiction; Representations of Antarctica.

“Then he returned to the sepulchre…”

Has it been that long? I took a two month springtime break from Lovecraft (the best time to do so), in order to do intensive work on my JURN open access academic search tool. Until 2014 JURN indexed only open access (free) academic journals in the arts and humanities. It now also indexes all known open ecology-related journals, open business journals, and biomedical/science. Also most of the main UK academic repositories, and key US and world repositories. JURN’s index was given a thorough spring-cleaning and a deep linkrot cure, along with the same for the JURN Directory of arts and humanities journals.

Many thanks to Kenneth W. Faig, Jr. for sending me a paper copy of his EOD mailing zine, containing his kind reviews of my summer 2013 books. I’m also in receipt of review copies of Steven J. Mariconda’s H. P. Lovecraft: Art, Artifact, and Reality, and David Goudsward’s H. P. Lovecraft in the Merrimack Valley. Thanks to David Goudsward and Derek Hussey for those — I’ll be reviewing those books in July or August.