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My friend and fellow scholar, Faye Ringel, will be teaching an online course on Lovecraft over four weeks beginning on October 25. Faye has published two books and many papers on New England gothic literature, and I don't know anyone who knows more about H. P. Lovecraft.
I can also say that the online registration page is fully accessible, as is the etext resource that Faye provides. Any outside resources I mention on Lovecraft I mention in class (and I have many books on Lovecraft and gothic literature) will also be available in accessible formats.

The registration fee is $40.

Lovecraft: Horror, Fantasy & Science Fiction (Online) | EdAdvance Adult Education FALL 2022 Catalog (coursestorm.com)

Description: Who is H.P. Lovecraft? Why do writers like Stephen King and Neil Gaiman admire his horror fiction? The work of this racially controversial and creatively influential writer will be discussed via his stories and letters. What are Cthulhu and the Necronomicon? The focus will be on "The Shunned House", "The Festival", "The Shadow Over Innsmouth", and "The Dunwich Horror" plus more. Suggested reading prior to first class is found at the following free online Lovecraft resource: https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/

Oct 25th, 2022
Tue for 4 weeks from 7:00 - 8:00 pm

Register here
https://ed-advance-foothills-adult-continuing-education.coursestorm.com/course/lovecraft-horror-fantasy-science-fiction-online?search=Lovecraft

How have I not seen this before? And it all begins with, Prospero's magic book was the _Necronomicon_, to which I can only reply, well, of course, why hadn't that occurred to me before?
http://www.amazon.com/Shakespeare-Lovecraft-Shakespeares-Characters-Lovecrafts/dp/1479106135/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&tag=shadmano-20&qid=1350564373&sr=8-1&keywords=Shakespeare+v+Lovecraft

I guess this is wy they call it an agony column. Oddly, it makes me sort of wish that there was a "Talk like a Lovecraft character" day.
http://bygonebureau.com/2012/04/04/h-p-lovecraft-answers-your-relationship-questions/

Whether you are going out to a party, holding down the fort at home while being besieged by manic sugar imps, or just staying home and reading something spooky while eating the Halloween candy all by yourself,
have a happy Halloween!

And if you need more recommendations for reading material, here are a couple of links to free audiobooks:
"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving on Lit2Go (includes mp3 and text)
http://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/contents/2700/2726/2726.html
_Collected Public Domain Works of H. P. Lovecraft_ from LibraryVox
http://librivox.org/collected-public-domain-works-of-h-p-lovecraft/

and, just because this looks so cool, Here is a link to a Lovecraft-related Kickstarter project which was successfully funded:
The Miskatonic School for Girls
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1225737959/miskatonic-school-for-girls-deck-building-game?ref=live

Not a real sex ed film, but the video is a film submitted to the Sundance film festival--really amazing script which makes a great use of canon to create something original.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3gNQ2KYCb4
Gargantuan thanks to TheArt of Darkness blog for the link.

Kes: There was a really useful blog article I read a number of months back titled something like "20 words not to use in a book review," and now i have number 21. From Genreville
http://blogs.publishersweekly.com/blogs/genreville/?p=579&utm_source=Publishers+Weekly%27s+PW+Daily&utm_campaign=e1b2067db4-UA-15906914-1&utm_medium=email

Also from PW, this article on Lovecraft's increasing popularity, especially in new fiction anthologies and graphic novels:

Terror Eternal: The enduring popularity of H.P. Lovecraft
http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/43793-terror-eternal-the-enduring-popularity-of-h-p-lovecraft.html

Kes: Via The Art of Darkness blog; if you wait through the quiet bit the next video will cue up
http://www.shadowmanor.com/blog/?p=5159

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ut82TDjciSg

is your favorite fanboy preordering the new DVD
Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown
http://www.amazon.com/Lovecraft-Fear-John-Carpenter/dp/B002IZEWVI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1254779186&sr=1-1
which features horror folks like John Carpenter, Guillermo Del Toro, and Neil Gaiman, and even springing for the two-day shipping so that it shows up in time for your Lovecraft tea party.

Talk about putting the romance back in necromancy...I love you, FF.

For those who don't get announcements from Tor.com,
October is Steampunk Month on Tor.com
http://www.tor.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=blog&id=57547&j=21774693&e=kestrell@panix.com&l=15162145_HTML&u=247852209&mid=83886&jb=0
complete with interviews, fiction, and giveaways.

This is all very convenient as I'm trying to cultivate a look for a Lovecraft tea party which I think of as tentaclepunk (that's tentacle punk for screen reader users), which is basically steampunk with Lovecraftian overtones.

I want a Necronomicon cookie tin. I would settle for a Necronomicon lunchbox.

Both of these things seem perfectly obvious to me, but I think th Internets is doing its best to prevent me from having either, as my previous attempt to post this disappeared into the ether.

http://www.blackphoenixalchemylab.com/arkham.html

The University of Texas’ Ransom Center has digitized their
Edgar Allan Poe collection
http://research.hrc.utexas.edu/poedc/
including books annotated by the author. The collection was launched to accompany the bicentennial of Poe’s birth.
The digital collection incorporates images of all Poe manuscripts and letters at the Ransom Center with a selection of related archival materials, two books by Poe annotated by the author, sheet music based on his poems, and portraits from the Ransom Center collections. Poe’s manuscripts and letters are linked to transcriptions on the website of the Poe Society of Baltimore.
There’s lots of interesting stuff, including some manuscript pages that would be lovely printed out and framed or used as part of a collage.

This site is collecting
Poe's Ultimate Song List
http://www.houseofusher.net/songs.html
which is any song about Poe or any song or spoken performance based upon his works.

Need more Poe? How about
The Tell Tale Heart (UPA, 1953 )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4s9V8aQu4c
And for some variety, here are
The Complete Works of H. P. Lovecraft
http://www.dagonbytes.com/thelibrary/lovecraft/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MPSTMfAYVM
I'm stealing this from Paul Di Filippo (pgdf) who posted it to the Inferior Four LJ community
http://community.livejournal.com/theinferior4/510304.html
I was pleased to hear Michael Dirda and others, including Charles Brown, speak about reviewing at ReaderCon, and I will be posting my brief notes from that panel later. For now, I want to mention my latest case of book lust, which I discovered through a review from The Washington Post Book World site:
The Annotated The Wind in the Willows (2009)
A review by Michael Sims
http://www.powells.com/review/2009_07_17.html
It occurred to me while writing this post how often one can indulge in a little game of 6 degrees of Lovecraft. How do I get from Michael Dirda to Lovecraft in this post? Michael Dirda gave the speech I linked to above, and he also reviews for Book World, which posted the review for _The Annotated The Wind in the Willows_, in which the reviewer mentions his own childhood copy of
The Annotated Sherlock Holmes, written by William S. Baring-Gould. This Baring-Gould was a grandson of Sabine Baring-Gould, who was one of those eccentric antiquarian scholars who wrote the classic _The Book of Were-Wolves_ and a book about the castles of the troubador country and a book about medieval myths admired by H. P. Lovecraft (refer to Steven J. Mariconda, "Baring-Gould and the Ghouls: The Influence of Curious Myths of the Middle Ages on 'The Rats in the Walls'",
The Horror of It All, p. 42).
So there!
Also, acccording to Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabine_Baring-Gould
William Baring-Gould, when he was creating a biography of Sherlock Holmes, based Holmes early life upon that of Sabine Baring-Gould, and this has led to much intertwining of SBG's biographical details with those of Holmes.
Project Gutenberg has a number of SBG's works online
http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/b#a1766

Current Mood: weird
Current Location: aerye

The inaugural fiction issue of Innsmouth Free Press--a new online Lovecraftian magazine--is online at
http://www.innsmouthfreepress.com/?p=247

and if you are looking for daily doses of free SF/F/Horror media to be found online, you should subscribe to Quasar Dragon
http://freesciencefantasy.blogspot.com/
who does an impressive job of tracking what's new