Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg, special effects artist of the Enlightenment

From e "Magic Shows" issue of Lapham's Quarterly, here is a guy who sounds as if he should feature in his own horror movie, because this seems to be the earliest trope of the illusionist who really was aiming to perform real magic.
http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/biography/stage-light.php?page=all

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For Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg..., art and occultism were fundamentally joined at the level of craft. Unwilling to conceive of his practice as anything other than inherently mystical, he had, since his earliest days as a student in Strasbourg, combined his studies in painting with alchemical research to such an extent that he credited alchemy with leading him to discover a new way of fixing and enhancing pigments that would become the central element of his noted facility with color. The language of color was an important part of alchemical study, and Loutherbourg made himself its master, filling his paintings with its imagery, illuminating his canvases with creative and destructive flames, the subtle arcana of the magic world he felt inhabited his art.
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he also threw one hell of a Christmas party for William Thomas Beckford, author of the gothic novel _Vathek_ and designer of his own personal gothic abbey, Fonthill Abbey. The description of the three days in which the guests wandered through a never-ending series of illusions, mysterious music, scents which drifted through the air before mysteriously dissapating, etc., kind of sounds like being trapped in Hill House, no matter how pleasant the visions were intended to be.

Literary prejudices

So there is this new Lovecraft book just out with the catchy title of _H. P. Lovecraft's Dark Arcadia: The Satire, Symbology and Contradiction_, which I have been anticipating for some time.

However, in looking at the Amazon page for the book, there is no book description, but there is a bit about the author, who lives in Florida.

I realize this is really really petty of me, but I find myself doubtful regarding the abilities of an author to really get the mood of Lovecraft right when that author lives in a state that completely lacks gothic ambiance. I'm trying to imagine a Floridian Stephen King, and it just isn't happening.

And then I noticed that there is no publisher listed for the book.

How does that happen? I know I've come to regard self-publishing with some skepticism, but listing no publisher at all does not convey a sense of confidence, either. And why not just make up something if you don't have an actual publisher? I kind of like the ring of Infernal Publishing, Inc.