Lovecraft in Britain...

[Ningauble]

Originally Posted by Nesacat

I'll try and get my paws on a copy when I get there for Eastercon.

You'll be going to Eastercon? Look for the slightly lost-looking, bespectacled Swede with the Lovecraft-themed T-shirt. That's me.

[Nesacat]

Yay Ningauble ... it will be great to meet you. Always good to meet another Lovecraftian. There's hardly anyone here who reads his works. I'll probably make serious attempts to swipe the t-shirt.

I have a couple too.

There's a bunch of us going if you look in the Eastercon thread under Conventions. You should be able to find me if you find Morpheus who is 6'5" and thin.

I've been almost chaining my close friends down and forcing them to read.

[pyan]

So, basically I'd be looking for Fafhrd and a Black Panther, near the bar......

[Ningauble]

I got H. P. Lovecraft in Britain today!!

Interesting thing I spotted immediately: The forthcoming Gollancz Necronomicon will apparently have "all Lovecraft's major weird fiction (but excludes the minor juvenilia and the majority of the author's 'revisions')".

It also states that "Gollancz decided to work from the 'classic' texts created by Arkham House and Weird Tales but made a number of corrections and revisions based on the vast amounts of research that has been done by Lovecraft scholars over the past two decades".


Hmmm... I don't know. Yet another text version?
If it says "Inquanok" instead of "Inganok" and "dhole" instead of "bhole" in "The Dream-Quest of Uknkown Kadath", and "seven cryptical books of earth" instead of "seven cryptical books of Hsan" in "The Other Gods", I'm going to scream.
But I'll get the bloody book anyway, because the illustrations seem pretty cool.

[Nesacat]

I've several editions and doubles of Lovecraft's work and I keep picking them up.

Sometimes it's the illustrations; sometimes it's the cover art; sometimes it's a need to see the differences in the text and there are plenty of those (have been learning about a lot more since Chrons).

Sometimes it's just to give them a home and perhaps pass them along to someone else.

I suspect I'll be doing this for a long time to come.