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Saturday, February 28, 2009
The Moon and Venus: Eerie Near Occulation
From Coast to Coast AM (My favorite radio show):
Moisture in the air gave an eerie glow to the Moon and Venus as they appeared very close together after sunset in the western sky on the night of February 27, 2009. I took this photo in Phoenix, Arizona.
--Dave Bissegger
(http://www.coasttocoastam.com/gen/page2967.html?theme=light)
Before we get into March
The cold weather, ice storms, and wind storms have played havoc with my mental state. However, this is the tamest "tentacle and girl" picture I could find. Lovecraft would have been appalled. Edward Lee might be amused.
Friday, February 27, 2009
Cthulhu's Child Makes An Escape Attempt?
Octopus floods Santa Monica Pier Aquarium: The mollusk diassembles a valve at the top of her tank, flooding the place with some 200 gallons of seawater.
By Bob Pool February 27, 2009
It's not surprising that with eight arms and inquisitive nature, the two-spotted octopus is pretty handy around its tank at the Santa Monica Pier Aquarium.
Still, those reporting for work Thursday at the popular beachfront attraction were caught by surprise when they were greeted by water lapping around the kelp forest display, the shark and ray tank and the rocky reef exhibit.
The guest of honor in the aquarium's Kids' Corner octopus tank had swum to the top of the enclosure and disassembled the recycling system's valve, flooding the place with some 200 gallons of seawater.
"It had grabbed the tube that pulls out the water and caused it to spray outside the tank," said aquarium education specialist Nick Fash. Judging by the size of the flood, Fash estimated that the water flowed for about 10 hours before the first staff member, Aaron Kind, showed up for work.
Kind issued an all-hands-on-deck call to summon co-workers to the pier with mops, water vacuums and fans. Even though the aquarium is built over the beach, it has no floor drain.
The tiny octopus, which is about the size of a human forearm when its appendages are extended, floated lazily in the water that remained in its tank.
It watched intently through glass walls and portholes as workers struggled to dry the place out in time for the day's first busload of schoolchildren to arrive on a 9:30 a.m. field trip.
Randi Parent, the aquarium's community outreach coordinator, said the only significant damage was to newly installed ecologically sensitive flooring in several offices. It consists of linseed-and-cork tiles that soaked up the seawater and squished beneath workers' feet the rest of the day.
The incident was reminiscent of a 1994 incident at San Pedro's Cabrillo Marine Aquarium in which an octopus named Octavia pulled a plastic pipe loose.
That giant Pacific octopus died when all of the water in her tank drained out.
Since octopuses are considered by many to be the most intelligent invertebrate -- and to have good memories -- Fash said he jury-rigged his octopus tank piping with clamps and tape in hopes of thwarting any further mischief by its occupant. "She would need tools," he said of his octopus, which until now had no name.
"Some people are suggesting we call her 'Flo,' " he said.
By Bob Pool February 27, 2009
It's not surprising that with eight arms and inquisitive nature, the two-spotted octopus is pretty handy around its tank at the Santa Monica Pier Aquarium.
Still, those reporting for work Thursday at the popular beachfront attraction were caught by surprise when they were greeted by water lapping around the kelp forest display, the shark and ray tank and the rocky reef exhibit.
The guest of honor in the aquarium's Kids' Corner octopus tank had swum to the top of the enclosure and disassembled the recycling system's valve, flooding the place with some 200 gallons of seawater.
"It had grabbed the tube that pulls out the water and caused it to spray outside the tank," said aquarium education specialist Nick Fash. Judging by the size of the flood, Fash estimated that the water flowed for about 10 hours before the first staff member, Aaron Kind, showed up for work.
Kind issued an all-hands-on-deck call to summon co-workers to the pier with mops, water vacuums and fans. Even though the aquarium is built over the beach, it has no floor drain.
The tiny octopus, which is about the size of a human forearm when its appendages are extended, floated lazily in the water that remained in its tank.
It watched intently through glass walls and portholes as workers struggled to dry the place out in time for the day's first busload of schoolchildren to arrive on a 9:30 a.m. field trip.
Randi Parent, the aquarium's community outreach coordinator, said the only significant damage was to newly installed ecologically sensitive flooring in several offices. It consists of linseed-and-cork tiles that soaked up the seawater and squished beneath workers' feet the rest of the day.
The incident was reminiscent of a 1994 incident at San Pedro's Cabrillo Marine Aquarium in which an octopus named Octavia pulled a plastic pipe loose.
That giant Pacific octopus died when all of the water in her tank drained out.
Since octopuses are considered by many to be the most intelligent invertebrate -- and to have good memories -- Fash said he jury-rigged his octopus tank piping with clamps and tape in hopes of thwarting any further mischief by its occupant. "She would need tools," he said of his octopus, which until now had no name.
"Some people are suggesting we call her 'Flo,' " he said.
Labels:
2009,
Images of Cthulhu,
octopus
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Philip Jose Farmer dies.
Philip Jose Farmer, science fiction author, dies
Associated Press
8:45 PM CST, February 25, 2009
PEORIA, Ill. - Philip Jose Farmer, one of the most celebrated science fiction, fantasy and short story writers of the 1960s and '70s, died Wednesday. He was 91.
Farmer died "peacefully" in his sleep, according to a message posted on his official Web site.
The longtime Peoria resident wrote more than 75 novels, won the Hugo Award three times and the Grand Master Award for Science Fiction in 2001.
Farmer was "one of the great ones," according to a statement on the web site of Subterranean Press, which published his later novels.
"He was always a joy to work with, and we will dearly miss his intelligence and good nature," the statement said.
Farmer's first published story, "The Lovers," caught the attention of the science fiction world in 1952 with one of the genre's first serious treatments of sexuality. At the time, he was working full time at a Peoria steel mill and writing on the side.
"The Lovers" was based on a love affair between an Earth man and an alien woman, and Farmer rocked the science fiction community by dealing with sex in a frank manner. The story inspired some of the greatest science fiction writers, including Robert Heinlein, whose classic "Stranger in a Strange Land" was dedicated to Farmer.
Farmer tried to survive as a full-time freelance writer but finances forced him back to work as a technical writer in the defense industry in 1956. He bounced from New York to Arizona and California before finally quitting and moving back to central Illinois in 1969 to concentrate all his energies on his science fiction writing.
Farmer's celebrity in the science fiction world did not translate to Peoria, where he grew up and attended college.
"I am obscure in Peoria," Farmer told The Associated Press in 1988. "I guess they don't read much around here."
Farmer's last novel, "The City Beyond Play," was published in 2007.
He is survived by his wife, Bette, children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Associated Press
8:45 PM CST, February 25, 2009
PEORIA, Ill. - Philip Jose Farmer, one of the most celebrated science fiction, fantasy and short story writers of the 1960s and '70s, died Wednesday. He was 91.
Farmer died "peacefully" in his sleep, according to a message posted on his official Web site.
The longtime Peoria resident wrote more than 75 novels, won the Hugo Award three times and the Grand Master Award for Science Fiction in 2001.
Farmer was "one of the great ones," according to a statement on the web site of Subterranean Press, which published his later novels.
"He was always a joy to work with, and we will dearly miss his intelligence and good nature," the statement said.
Farmer's first published story, "The Lovers," caught the attention of the science fiction world in 1952 with one of the genre's first serious treatments of sexuality. At the time, he was working full time at a Peoria steel mill and writing on the side.
"The Lovers" was based on a love affair between an Earth man and an alien woman, and Farmer rocked the science fiction community by dealing with sex in a frank manner. The story inspired some of the greatest science fiction writers, including Robert Heinlein, whose classic "Stranger in a Strange Land" was dedicated to Farmer.
Farmer tried to survive as a full-time freelance writer but finances forced him back to work as a technical writer in the defense industry in 1956. He bounced from New York to Arizona and California before finally quitting and moving back to central Illinois in 1969 to concentrate all his energies on his science fiction writing.
Farmer's celebrity in the science fiction world did not translate to Peoria, where he grew up and attended college.
"I am obscure in Peoria," Farmer told The Associated Press in 1988. "I guess they don't read much around here."
Farmer's last novel, "The City Beyond Play," was published in 2007.
He is survived by his wife, Bette, children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Tori Spelling, Lovecraft, and Cthulhu?
???
You have to admit, you don't see this everyday...
The full interview here:
http://www.ectomo.com/index.php/2007/07/12/cthulhu-cthursday-tori-spellings-cthulhu-review/
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Coment Lulin and Lovecraft
“Last night I had an interesting view of Peltier’s comet through the 12" telescope of Ladd Observatory (of Brown U) a mile north of here. I used to haunt this observatory 30 years ago—the director and his two assistants (all dead now—save one asst. now at Wesleyan U. in Middletown, Conn.) being infinitely tolerant of a pompous juvenile ass with grandiose astronomical ambitions! The present object showed a small disc with hazy, fan-like tail. I could have seen it through my own small telescope were the northern sky less cut off from the neighbourhood of 66. The first comet I ever observed was Borelli’s—in Aug. 1903. I saw Halley’s in 1910—but missed the bright one earlier in that year by being flat in bed with a hellish case of measles!” (to Robert H. Barlow, 23 July 1936)
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Over the next three nights (about 25 February 2009), skywatchers can expect their best views yet of Comet Lulin, an odd, greenish backward-flying comet that's "zipping by Earth this month, as it takes its only trip toward the sun from the farthest edges of the solar system."
The Chicago Tribune reports that Comet Lulin makes its closest approach to Earth — some 38 million miles away — on Tuesday, Feb. 24.
To the naked eye, the comet looks like a fuzzy patch of hazy light against the night sky, according to the Christian Science Monitor.
What's additionally interesting about this comet is the story behind it. The Tribune article says that Lulin was discovered by a Chinese teenager two years ago.
Also remarkable is the fact that, while all the planets and most of the other objects in the solar system circle the sun counterclockwise, Lulin circles clockwise, the paper quotes NASA astronomer Stephen Edberg as saying. "It's essentially going backwards through the solar system," he said.
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Over the next three nights (about 25 February 2009), skywatchers can expect their best views yet of Comet Lulin, an odd, greenish backward-flying comet that's "zipping by Earth this month, as it takes its only trip toward the sun from the farthest edges of the solar system."
The Chicago Tribune reports that Comet Lulin makes its closest approach to Earth — some 38 million miles away — on Tuesday, Feb. 24.
To the naked eye, the comet looks like a fuzzy patch of hazy light against the night sky, according to the Christian Science Monitor.
What's additionally interesting about this comet is the story behind it. The Tribune article says that Lulin was discovered by a Chinese teenager two years ago.
Also remarkable is the fact that, while all the planets and most of the other objects in the solar system circle the sun counterclockwise, Lulin circles clockwise, the paper quotes NASA astronomer Stephen Edberg as saying. "It's essentially going backwards through the solar system," he said.
Labels:
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2009,
comet,
Comet Lulin,
Halley's Comet,
Ladd Observatory,
Peltier's Comet
A Lovecraft Cartoon
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Happy Birthday August Derleth (24 February 1909 )
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Bringing you all things Lovecraft ...
...whether you want it or not.
Chrispy has NOT visited this shop, but if you have, please add an (anonymous?) comment.
You should check out Carlos' site!
I had a chance to check Carlos' website. Wow. If you haven't looked lately, check it out.
http://museodeliteraturapopular.blogspot.com/
Some nifties:
http://museodeliteraturapopular.blogspot.com/
Some nifties:
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Border's Broke My Heart: Or How I Stimulated The Economy
EVERYTIME! I go to Borders with my 10%, 20%, of 30% off coupon they break my heart. I rush over to the Horror section and ... the same old Kalems. King takes up his 800 pound gorilla 35% of the shelving, and then squeezed in is Koonz, Lumley, and Matheson. Poor Lovecraft does have several books that I have memorized and Steven Jones a few anthologies. I'm a fan of Brian Keene and he's now well represented, but I've read the covers off of him. Just try to find a Leisure Braunbeck set of Mr. hands, or a Nate Southard, or a Sarah Pinnborough. *sigh*
So, I decided to ignore Mr. Obama's warning that It's GOING To Get Worse Before It Gets Better, and I bought from larry Roberts and Shane Ryan: I think I had 10 books arrive this week, most of them numbered and signed and limted editions. I also got terrific bargains by getting free books. My about $110 netted me two free $50 each Braunbeck anthologies, a few extra bookmarks, and lots of soon to be reading pleasure.
One was - drool - Horrors Beyond 2 with 18 !!! signatures on the inside cover.
And, finally, I got a copy of Lovecraftian Dave Goudsward's Shadows Over New England.
Border's Loss.
Horror Mall's Gain.
My reading pleasure.
-Chrispy.
So, I decided to ignore Mr. Obama's warning that It's GOING To Get Worse Before It Gets Better, and I bought from larry Roberts and Shane Ryan: I think I had 10 books arrive this week, most of them numbered and signed and limted editions. I also got terrific bargains by getting free books. My about $110 netted me two free $50 each Braunbeck anthologies, a few extra bookmarks, and lots of soon to be reading pleasure.
One was - drool - Horrors Beyond 2 with 18 !!! signatures on the inside cover.
And, finally, I got a copy of Lovecraftian Dave Goudsward's Shadows Over New England.
Border's Loss.
Horror Mall's Gain.
My reading pleasure.
-Chrispy.
Labels:
David Goudsward,
Horrors Beyond 2,
interlude
Friday, February 20, 2009
Roddy McDowell Does Lovecraft
A friend of the HPLblog alerted me to these keen images. Thanks! If all goes right, you should be able to click and expand the images into a new screen.
Labels:
Roddy McDowell,
The Hound,
The Outsider
Thursday, February 19, 2009
A New Batrachian God?
A spiky orange rain frog ... discovered in Colombia, scientists have revealed.
03 Feb 2009
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"Alejandra, you fool! Size? You're thinking so Euclidean. There are things - beings - which dwarf our intelligneces, of which we can't fathom with our puny primate brains, but which are but an inch across. There, in the rainforest, live creatures who were old when primates were clinging to the braches of trees, trembling. Look! My God, Alejandra, look! That batrachian thing! It comes!"
Labels:
frog,
The Shadow Over Innsmouth
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Ia! Yig Uncovered!
This artist's rendering shows the colossal prehistoric snake Titanoboa cerrejonensis, whose remains were found in a Colombian coal mine.
(Jason Bourque, University of Florida/Handout/Reuters)
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Ancient fossil find: This snake could eat a cow!
By MALCOLM RITTER, AP Science Writer
4 February 2009
Reuters – This artist's rendering shows the colossal prehistoric snake Titanoboa cerrejonensis, whose remains were … NEW YORK – Never mind the 40-foot snake that menaced Jennifer Lopez in the 1997 movie "Anaconda." Not even Hollywood could match a new discovery from the ancient world.
Fossils from northeastern Colombia reveal the biggest snake ever discovered: a behemoth that stretched 42 to 45 feet long, reaching more than 2,500 pounds.
"This thing weighs more than a bison and is longer than a city bus," enthused snake expert Jack Conrad of the American Museum of Natural History in New York, who was familiar with the find.
"It could easily eat something the size of a cow. A human would just be toast immediately."
"If it tried to enter my office to eat me, it would have a hard time squeezing through the door," reckoned paleontologist Jason Head of the University of Toronto Missisauga.
Actually, the beast probably munched on ancient relatives of crocodiles in its rainforest home some 58 million to 60 million years ago, he said.
Head is senior author of a report on the find in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature.
The discoverers of the snake named it Titanoboa cerrejonensis ("ty-TAN-o-BO-ah sare-ah-HONE-en-siss"). That means "titanic boa from Cerrejon," the region where it was found.
While related to modern boa constrictors, it behaved more like an anaconda and spent almost all its time in the water, Head said. It could slither on land as well as swim.
Conrad, who wasn't involved in the discovery, called the find "just unbelievable.... It mocks your preconceptions about how big a snake can get."
Titanoboa breaks the record for snake length by about 11 feet, surpassing a creature that lived about 40 million years ago in Egypt, Head said. Among living snake species, the record holder is an individual python measured at about 30 feet long, which is some 12 to 15 feet shorter than typical Titanoboas, said study co-author Jonathan Bloch.
The beast was revealed in early 2007 at the University of Florida's Florida Museum of Natural History in Gainesville. Bones collected at a huge open-pit coal mine in Colombia were being unpacked, said Bloch, the museum's curator of vertebrate paleontology.
Graduate students unwrapping the fossils "realized they were looking at the bones of a snake. Not only a snake, but a really big snake."
So they quickly consulted the skeleton of a 17-foot anaconda for comparison. A backbone from that creature is about the size of a silver dollar, Bloch said, while a backbone from Titanoboa is "the size of a large Florida grapefruit."
So far the scientists have found about 180 fossils of backbone and ribs that came from about two dozen individual snakes, and now they hope to go back to Colombia to find parts of the skull, Bloch said.
Titanoboa's size gives clues about its environment. A snake's size is related to how warm its environment is. The fossils suggest equatorial temperatures in its day were significantly warmer than they are now, during a time when the world as a whole was warmer. So equatorial temperatures apparently rose along with the global levels, in contrast to the competing hypothesis that they would not go up much, Head noted.
"It's a leap" to apply the conditions of the past to modern climate change, Head said. But given that, the finding still has "some potentially scary implications for what we're doing to the climate today," he said.
The finding suggest the equatorial regions will warm up along with the planet, he said.
"We won't have giant snakes, however, because we are removing most of their habitats by development and deforestation" in equatorial regions, he said.
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On the Net:
Nature: http://www.nature.com/nature
Labels:
2009,
snake,
The Curse of Yig
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
More "Colour Out of Space" in the 21st Century
FAA says Texas fireball was meteor, not a UFO
By JEFF CARLTON, Associated Press Writer Jeff Carlton, Associated Press Writer – Mon Feb 16, 4:58 pm ET
DALLAS – The fireball that streaked across the sky and alarmed numerous Texas residents was likely just a big meteor and not wreckage from colliding satellites, experts said Monday.
Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Roland Herwig said the fireball seen across a wide stretch of the state Sunday morning probably was a natural phenomenon and not debris from last week's collision between an Iridium communications satellite and a Russian military space vehicle.
And Preston Starr, observatory manager at the University of North Texas, said it probably was a meteor about the size of a pickup truck with the consistency of a chunk of concrete.
The Williamson County sheriff's office in central Texas said it received so many emergency calls about the light in the sky that it sent deputies out in a helicopter to look for a plane crash.
The FAA had said during the weekend that the fireball possibly was caused by falling debris from the satellites. It also posted a weekend warning telling pilots to watch out for satellite debris but rescinded the warning Sunday, Herwig said.
By JEFF CARLTON, Associated Press Writer Jeff Carlton, Associated Press Writer – Mon Feb 16, 4:58 pm ET
DALLAS – The fireball that streaked across the sky and alarmed numerous Texas residents was likely just a big meteor and not wreckage from colliding satellites, experts said Monday.
Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Roland Herwig said the fireball seen across a wide stretch of the state Sunday morning probably was a natural phenomenon and not debris from last week's collision between an Iridium communications satellite and a Russian military space vehicle.
And Preston Starr, observatory manager at the University of North Texas, said it probably was a meteor about the size of a pickup truck with the consistency of a chunk of concrete.
The Williamson County sheriff's office in central Texas said it received so many emergency calls about the light in the sky that it sent deputies out in a helicopter to look for a plane crash.
The FAA had said during the weekend that the fireball possibly was caused by falling debris from the satellites. It also posted a weekend warning telling pilots to watch out for satellite debris but rescinded the warning Sunday, Herwig said.
Labels:
meteor,
The Colour Out of Space
Rare Image of Zealia Bishop
I'm so proud to have so many Lovecraftians to help me out. After discussion of Zealia Bishop, here are some comments from members of Chrispy's Lovecraft Group.
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Lvxnox reports: I'm attaching a picture of Zeali Bishop that appears on the cover flap of THE CURSE OF YIG.
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Lvxnox reports: I'm attaching a picture of Zeali Bishop that appears on the cover flap of THE CURSE OF YIG.
Labels:
The Curse of Yig,
Zealia Bishop
Monday, February 16, 2009
Lovecraft Mentioned in 1947
This was found in a fanzine called Tympany. Edited by Redd Boggs and Robert Stein, issue of 7 July 1947 (Vo. I, No. 9). The lead off was by Forest J. Ackerman who wrote:
Avon to issue TWO new pro mags: To clear up the confusion about what is going on at Avon. there will not be one but two new fantasy mags from that source in the near future. The higher class one will aim at literary quality for the adult reader, reviving the policy of Stirring Science Stories in presenting a mixture of straight science-fiction, pure fantasy, and out and out pure weird. Weinbaum, Merritt and Lovecraft would be the authors to expect in this periodical, were tehy alive today/ Their calibre of story is being sought. The second periodica will be the standard sort of story of stf {scientifiction}: interplanetaryarns, time travel tales, dimensional adventures, atomic action, etc., with a certain amount of wacky, off-trail and supernatural fiction included. Among those authors from whom material already has been bought for these magazines are Wellman, Leiber, Jacobi, Bloch and Long. Roy Hunt will be among the illustrators.
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Nothing to do with HPL, but in the same edition, a recap of some selected "flying saucer" reports are listed. Here's the text:
Flier Sights Strange "Aircraft" Near Mt. Ranier. Nine bright saucer-like objects flying at 1200 miles an hour over the Cascade mountains of Western Washington - - that's what pilot Kenneth Arnold reported he saw Tuesday, June 24th, while on a flight in search of a missing airplane. He said the "aircraft" were flying north at 10,000 feet and moving in a peculiar dipping manner, "like a fish flipping in the sun." A flash of reflected sunshine brought them to his attention when they were 25-30 miles away. Stunned by their "incredible" speed he clocked them between Mt. Adams and Mt. Ranier, a distance of 47 miles. It took 1:42 minutes, he reported, adding that after he had landed, he got out a map and by triangulation figured the speed of the "objects" at 1200 miles an hour. "One thing that struck me," Arnold said, "was that they were flying so low. Ten thousand feet is very low for anything going at that speed." He said they appeared to fly almost as if fastened together - - if one dipped, the others did too. He estimated the "objects" were about the same size as a four-engined DC-4 passenger plane, although they did not have wings.
Credit: David C. Sparks
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The "Flying Whizzits" - - Fortean Field Day. "Those flying saucers - - they're records that escaped from some disc-jocke," cracked a radio comedian, and scientists snapped, "Spots in front of their eyes," but following the first report of the flying objects (see above) "eye-witness" observations began to pour in from points in every corner of the United States and canada. There was a similarity in all reports: the objects were round, like saucers, traveling at a high rate of speed with little or no noise, and of such brightness that reflections from the sun were blinding. A Dr. Forrest Shaver (repeat: SHAVER) of Akron O., reported seeing the saucers at night, looking like a balloon with a light inside". A Seattle coastguardsman caught a picture of a disk. Dr. Oliver J. Lee of Northwestern U. declared that the disks "are probably man-made and radio-controlled." As Tympany goes to press, the Army Air Forces have alerted pursuit planes on the West Coast in an attempt to intercept a "saucer"; Mead Layne of San Diego, Calif., editor of an occult publication not unknown to fandom, claimed to be in contact with passengers on the "saucers", and a Detroit meteorologist therized that the disks may be signals from mars. Thirty-nine states have reported seeing the flying saucers.
Credit: Jewett, Carlson, Rapp, Guerry Brown.
Avon to issue TWO new pro mags: To clear up the confusion about what is going on at Avon. there will not be one but two new fantasy mags from that source in the near future. The higher class one will aim at literary quality for the adult reader, reviving the policy of Stirring Science Stories in presenting a mixture of straight science-fiction, pure fantasy, and out and out pure weird. Weinbaum, Merritt and Lovecraft would be the authors to expect in this periodical, were tehy alive today/ Their calibre of story is being sought. The second periodica will be the standard sort of story of stf {scientifiction}: interplanetaryarns, time travel tales, dimensional adventures, atomic action, etc., with a certain amount of wacky, off-trail and supernatural fiction included. Among those authors from whom material already has been bought for these magazines are Wellman, Leiber, Jacobi, Bloch and Long. Roy Hunt will be among the illustrators.
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Nothing to do with HPL, but in the same edition, a recap of some selected "flying saucer" reports are listed. Here's the text:
Flier Sights Strange "Aircraft" Near Mt. Ranier. Nine bright saucer-like objects flying at 1200 miles an hour over the Cascade mountains of Western Washington - - that's what pilot Kenneth Arnold reported he saw Tuesday, June 24th, while on a flight in search of a missing airplane. He said the "aircraft" were flying north at 10,000 feet and moving in a peculiar dipping manner, "like a fish flipping in the sun." A flash of reflected sunshine brought them to his attention when they were 25-30 miles away. Stunned by their "incredible" speed he clocked them between Mt. Adams and Mt. Ranier, a distance of 47 miles. It took 1:42 minutes, he reported, adding that after he had landed, he got out a map and by triangulation figured the speed of the "objects" at 1200 miles an hour. "One thing that struck me," Arnold said, "was that they were flying so low. Ten thousand feet is very low for anything going at that speed." He said they appeared to fly almost as if fastened together - - if one dipped, the others did too. He estimated the "objects" were about the same size as a four-engined DC-4 passenger plane, although they did not have wings.
Credit: David C. Sparks
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The "Flying Whizzits" - - Fortean Field Day. "Those flying saucers - - they're records that escaped from some disc-jocke," cracked a radio comedian, and scientists snapped, "Spots in front of their eyes," but following the first report of the flying objects (see above) "eye-witness" observations began to pour in from points in every corner of the United States and canada. There was a similarity in all reports: the objects were round, like saucers, traveling at a high rate of speed with little or no noise, and of such brightness that reflections from the sun were blinding. A Dr. Forrest Shaver (repeat: SHAVER) of Akron O., reported seeing the saucers at night, looking like a balloon with a light inside". A Seattle coastguardsman caught a picture of a disk. Dr. Oliver J. Lee of Northwestern U. declared that the disks "are probably man-made and radio-controlled." As Tympany goes to press, the Army Air Forces have alerted pursuit planes on the West Coast in an attempt to intercept a "saucer"; Mead Layne of San Diego, Calif., editor of an occult publication not unknown to fandom, claimed to be in contact with passengers on the "saucers", and a Detroit meteorologist therized that the disks may be signals from mars. Thirty-nine states have reported seeing the flying saucers.
Credit: Jewett, Carlson, Rapp, Guerry Brown.
Labels:
1947,
Redd Boggs,
Robert Stein
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Lovecraftiana X (final)
Seller's notes:
LOT of Scarce H.P. LOVECRAFT Ephemera - No Reserve!!
LOT INCLUDES:
March, 1944 "Books At Brown: Friends of the Library of Brown University: Providence, R.I." Volume One, No. Three. Four pages long. Features "The Haunter of the Dark: Some Notes On Howard Phillips Lovecraft".
February 1, 1981 "Sunday Journal Magazine" clipping titled "It's A Labor of Lovecraft". Article talks about Marc Michaud, a student at Brown University and the man behind Necronomicon Press, which "is devoted solely to the uncollected works of, and stories about, H.P. Lovecraft." In addition to this original article clipping, an extra photocopy is included.
SIGNED letter from Marc A. Michaud, typed on official Necronomicon Press stationary. Addressed to Mrs. Louttit, written on March 21, 1981. Letter has faint crease marks, from having once been folded. In addition to this original letter, an extra photocopy is included.
Undated "Necronomicon Notes" Volume One, Number Three. Features a copy of a postcard from Lovecraft addressed to Clark Ashton Smith, written on October 10, 1933 (previously never published). Also includes a list of in print titles at that time from Necronomicon Press, updates on various publications by or about Lovecraft, etc. Notes have been folded in half.
January, 1962 "Brown University Library Staff Bulletin" Volume 23, Number 3. Bulletin is 8 pages long. Features "Special Collections III: The Howard Phillips Lovecraft Collection".
December 26, 1943 newspaper clipping from "The Providence Sunday Journal". Clipping features an article titled "The Case of Howard Phillips Lovecraft of Providence, R.I. - Recluse, Scholar and Gentleman, As a Writer He Was a Master of the Macabre Tale". Newspaper clipping has been neatly folded.
Small newspaper clipping featuring a letter to the editor from Mrs. Clifford M. Eddy, regarding Howard Phillips Lovecraft. Clipping has a few small chips towards the bottom, though text remains unaffected.
Various print outs from the internet referencing Lovecraft.
All of these items were previously a part of William Easton Loutitt's private library. Loutitt was a noted collector and the official archivist for the John Hay Library at Brown University from the 1950's through the 70's.
Overall, this items in this lot of Lovecraft ephemera are in overall EXCELLENT condition. Many of the items have normal, faint age tones and are lightly rubbed. As with any items this old, some ageing and minor imperfections should be expected. Any major imperfections will be noted.
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Happy Valentine's Day (1924)
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On March 3, 1924, Lovecraft married Sonia Haft Greene. I have no clue if he gave her a pre-wedding Valentine's Day card. Probably not, so here's a belated one for her from you and me. :)
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Friday, February 13, 2009
Lovecraftiana IX
This one is great. Muriel Eddy, who wrote several editions of her Lovecraft monograph over the years, uses the newspaper letters column to do another.
Small newspaper clipping featuring a letter to the editor from Mrs. Clifford M. Eddy, regarding Howard Phillips Lovecraft. Clipping has a few small chips towards the bottom, though text remains unaffected.
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Thursday, February 12, 2009
Lovecraftiana VIII
December 26, 1943 newspaper clipping from "The Providence Sunday Journal". Clipping features an article titled "The Case of Howard Phillips Lovecraft of Providence, R.I. - Recluse, Scholar and Gentleman, As a Writer He Was a Master of the Macabre Tale". Newspaper clipping has been neatly folded.
More tomorrow ...
Labels:
1943,
The Providence Journal,
William Easton Loutitt
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Lovecraftiana VII
January, 1962 "Brown University Library Staff Bulletin" Volume 23, Number 3. Bulletin is 8 pages long. Features "Special Collections III: The Howard Phillips Lovecraft Collection".
More tomorrow ...
Labels:
1962,
Brown University,
William Easton Loutitt
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Lovecraftiana VI
March, 1944 "Books At Brown: Friends of the Library of Brown University: Providence, R.I." Volume One, No. Three. Four pages long. Features "The Haunter of the Dark: Some Notes On Howard Phillips Lovecraft".
More tomorrow ...
Labels:
1944,
Brown University,
William Easton Loutitt
Monday, February 09, 2009
Update from Larry Latham: Lovecraft is Missing Comics
Hi, Chris and readers,
I just wanted to bring you up to date on my web comic, Lovecraft is Missing, at www.lovecraftismissing.com . The second issue is well under way; new pages go up Wednesdays and Fridays, the blog updates on Mondays. I've been linked to your site since I started, last October. There's also info and art from the animated series that I had in development at Film Roman back in the late '90s, as well as some other goodies of Lovecraftian relevance.
Readership is growing and response has been enthusiastic. I'm getting an average of 3,000 visits a day, and about 15,000 page views, but any mention would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Larry
www.lovecraftismissing.com
I just wanted to bring you up to date on my web comic, Lovecraft is Missing, at www.lovecraftismissing.com . The second issue is well under way; new pages go up Wednesdays and Fridays, the blog updates on Mondays. I've been linked to your site since I started, last October. There's also info and art from the animated series that I had in development at Film Roman back in the late '90s, as well as some other goodies of Lovecraftian relevance.
Readership is growing and response has been enthusiastic. I'm getting an average of 3,000 visits a day, and about 15,000 page views, but any mention would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Larry
www.lovecraftismissing.com
Lovecraftiana V
February 1, 1981 "Sunday Journal Magazine" clipping titled "It's A Labor of Lovecraft". Article talks about Marc Michaud, a student at Brown University and the man behind Necronomicon Press, which "is devoted solely to the uncollected works of, and stories about, H.P. Lovecraft." In addition to this original article clipping, an extra photocopy is included.
More tomorrow ...
Sunday, February 08, 2009
Lovecraftiana IV
Undated "Necronomicon Notes" Volume One, Number Three. Features a copy of a postcard from Lovecraft addressed to Clark Ashton Smith, written on October 10, 1933 (previously never published). Also includes a list of in print titles at that time from Necronomicon Press, updates on various publications by or about Lovecraft, etc. Notes have been folded in half.
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Saturday, February 07, 2009
Lovecraftiana III
SIGNED letter from Marc A. Michaud, typed on official Necronomicon Press stationary. Addressed to Mrs. Louttit, written on March 21, 1981. Letter has faint crease marks, from having once been folded. In addition to this original letter, an extra photocopy is included.
More tomorrow...
Labels:
1981,
Marc A Michaud,
William Easton Loutitt
Friday, February 06, 2009
Lovecraftiana II
Various print outs from the internet referencing Lovecraft.
All of these items were previously a part of William Easton Loutitt's private library. Loutitt was a noted collector and the official archivist for the John Hay Library at Brown University from the 1950's through the 70's.
More tomorrow.
Thursday, February 05, 2009
1922 Lovecraft Essay in The Liberal
Wednesday, February 04, 2009
Breaking Lovecraftian News
{Whether you love his writing, or hate it, Edward Lee is an original. He ain't for everyone. He writes the most provoking, graphic, and challenging texts. And I kid you not. Violent, sadistic, and psychopathic characters abound.
He's also an enormous Lovecraft fan, and he's finally at a point where he believes he can write Lovecraftian works to expurgate that passion for HPL that he has. For 50 bucks, you can have one of 300 copies. In ten minutes dozens went when they went on sale, so plumb your pocketbook, and see if you want to get in on this event.
Disclosure, while I passed on the $300 Lovecraft art book - I know I'll one day hate myself - I did preorder a copy of this one.}
Order link:
http://www.horror-mall.com/TROLLEY-No.-1852-by-Edward-Lee-Limited-Edition-Hardcover-p-19041.html
Imagine this... In 1934, ground-breaking horror writer H.P. Lovecraft is invited to write a story for a subversive underground magazine, all on the condition that a pseudonym will be used. The pay is lofty, and God knows, HPL needs the money; therefore...he agrees.
There’s one catch.
It has to be a pornographic story...
ALL ABOARD TROLLEY NO. 1852
Through the midnight bowels of New York City, the decrepit trolley clatters on,its single yellow headlight illumining one desolate alley and squalid,trash-strewn street after the next, through crumbling ghettos and betwixt drab skyscrapers and labyrinthine edifices–indeed, the very guts of the Depression-ravaged metropolis. The Trolley admits only a special sort of rider, and takes them to a very select destination...
THE 1852 CLUB
What is the meaning behind the cryptic number, and what is the ghastly truth behind the club’s voluptuous madam? For, yes, the 1852 Club is abordello of the most macabre discrimination. Destitute academician Morgan Phillips will learn of all the club’s pestiferous secrets butnot before he is first subjected to unnameable acts degradation andabuse, and is then thrown body and soul into a morass of eroticabandon, sexual perversion, and gut-churning, brain-warping,inter-dimensional carnality so unspeakable it can scarcely bedescribed...
Join horror veteran Edward Lee in this bold homage to his favorite horror author: H.P. Lovecraft. Herein, Lee boldly converts HPL’s obscure fragment “The Thing in the Moonlight” into a full-fledged novella, incorporating as best he can the Master’s rich, singular style and vision, while integrating some of his own lurid tricks and treats...
This is a limited edition hardcover of only 300 signed and numbered copies.
He's also an enormous Lovecraft fan, and he's finally at a point where he believes he can write Lovecraftian works to expurgate that passion for HPL that he has. For 50 bucks, you can have one of 300 copies. In ten minutes dozens went when they went on sale, so plumb your pocketbook, and see if you want to get in on this event.
Disclosure, while I passed on the $300 Lovecraft art book - I know I'll one day hate myself - I did preorder a copy of this one.}
Order link:
http://www.horror-mall.com/TROLLEY-No.-1852-by-Edward-Lee-Limited-Edition-Hardcover-p-19041.html
Imagine this... In 1934, ground-breaking horror writer H.P. Lovecraft is invited to write a story for a subversive underground magazine, all on the condition that a pseudonym will be used. The pay is lofty, and God knows, HPL needs the money; therefore...he agrees.
There’s one catch.
It has to be a pornographic story...
ALL ABOARD TROLLEY NO. 1852
Through the midnight bowels of New York City, the decrepit trolley clatters on,its single yellow headlight illumining one desolate alley and squalid,trash-strewn street after the next, through crumbling ghettos and betwixt drab skyscrapers and labyrinthine edifices–indeed, the very guts of the Depression-ravaged metropolis. The Trolley admits only a special sort of rider, and takes them to a very select destination...
THE 1852 CLUB
What is the meaning behind the cryptic number, and what is the ghastly truth behind the club’s voluptuous madam? For, yes, the 1852 Club is abordello of the most macabre discrimination. Destitute academician Morgan Phillips will learn of all the club’s pestiferous secrets butnot before he is first subjected to unnameable acts degradation andabuse, and is then thrown body and soul into a morass of eroticabandon, sexual perversion, and gut-churning, brain-warping,inter-dimensional carnality so unspeakable it can scarcely bedescribed...
Join horror veteran Edward Lee in this bold homage to his favorite horror author: H.P. Lovecraft. Herein, Lee boldly converts HPL’s obscure fragment “The Thing in the Moonlight” into a full-fledged novella, incorporating as best he can the Master’s rich, singular style and vision, while integrating some of his own lurid tricks and treats...
This is a limited edition hardcover of only 300 signed and numbered copies.
Labels:
2009,
Edward Lee,
Trolley No 1852
Derleth to Lee Brown Coye (1963) on Lovecraft Book
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Seller's Description:
August Derleth to Lee Brown Coye - 1963
No need to tell the majority of you of the importance of August Derleth to Fantasy & SF literature. Derleth founded Arkham House publishers specifically to promote the lifework of his friend, Howard Phillips Lovecraft and along the way incidentally published the first books of Ray Bradbury, Fritz Leiber, Robert Bloch, A. Van Vogt, Ramsey Campbell and others. Lee Brown Coye may be an unknown entity to many of you but Coye was a noted artist whose Fantastic pen & ink Grotesques were published in Weird Tales, Fantastic, and other specialty magazines, and also dust-jacket illustrations for Arkham House, Carcosa, and some earlier rare limited editions.
This one-page letter upon Derleth's personal stationary is an apparent response to a letter from Lee Brown Coye expressing interest in illustrating a volume of H. P. Lovecraft stories. Derleth warns the artist that the financial rewards would be minimal, even if he printed 3000 copies. Thie vollume was eventually published under the title "Three Tales of Horror" in an edition of only 1500 copies. The letter also notes that Coye's next assignment would be Ramsey Campbell's first book "The Inhabitant of the Lake". I don't know why Coye never completed this assignment because the published artwork was completed by Frank Utpatel.
An interesting wordy and fairly lengthy noteworthy letter. Signed with Derleth's squiggle and dated 13 September 1963.
Labels:
1963,
Arkham House,
August Derleth,
Lee Brown Coye
Tuesday, February 03, 2009
HPL residence 598 Angell Street
Monday, February 02, 2009
HPL June 16 1934 photo by R H Barlow
Sunday, February 01, 2009
Poe
Tom sent these to me to share with all of you. If you (like Lovecraft) are a Poe fan, grab these images or better yet grab a 1st day postmark. Yeah, 16 January was Poe's bicentennial. Lovecraft was 19 during Poe's centennial celebration, and you can imagine he was swooning over that.
Enjoy ...
Enjoy ...
Labels:
2009,
Edgar Allan Poe,
Tom Lera
Lovecraft About Age 25
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