Forthcoming Lovecraftian Items

[w h pugmire, esq.]

That novel is my favorite of Lovecraft's fictions, and I really want to do an intense, slow study of it next year when I return to trying to write my Pickman novel. S. T. mention'd in our vlog that the design will be especially charming. My, what a great time this is to be an obsess'd Lovecraftian!

[J-WO]

I can't stand this HPL-as-occultist nonsense. My old university was awash with people trying to tell me (and anyone else who'd listen) that Grandpa was a bloody closet wizard and that the Necronomican was real.

After much discussion, I'd typically discover that these occult pundits hadn't actually read any Lovecraft. At best they had a copy of that faux-necronomican (You know- the one that rips off loads of Sumerian texts and swaps the names of gods for Old Ones) and had maybe, maybe, seen Reanimator.

[j. d. worthington]

Originally Posted by J-WO

I can't stand this HPL-as-occultist nonsense. My old university was awash with people trying to tell me (and anyone else who'd listen) that Grandpa was a bloody closet wizard and that the Necronomican was real.

After much discussion, I'd typically discover that these occult pundits hadn't actually read any Lovecraft. At best they had a copy of that faux-necronomican (You know- the one that rips off loads of Sumerian texts and swaps the names of gods for Old Ones) and had maybe, maybe, seen Reanimator.

"[T]hat faux-necronomican (You know- the one that rips off loads of Sumerian texts and swaps the names of gods for Old Ones)"... That would be the "Simon Necronomicon", put together by someone who is a bona-fide occultist. There are also horrendous goofs in that book in light of Sumerian mythology, as well as countless other areas. And, frankly, it is simply boring as hell... completely unforgivable for something that purports to be the Necronomicon! (They could at least have asked someone like Anton LaVey -- who could, when he wished, actually have a rather good prose style for capturing such things -- to write the bloody thing......)

[w h pugmire, esq.]

I just deleted one of my MrWilum vlogs concerning ye Necronomicon because some idiot kept posting ignorant non-literary comments and accused me of being "a non-practitioner" or some such thing. The only magick I practice is the alchemy of Literary Art!

[J Riff]

Yes, if HPL were alive he'd have to go around denying the whole thing, or be like Houdini, offering big$$ to anyone who could prove existence of the spirit world.
Surprised there isn't a 'Necronomicon for Dummies' yet. )

[j. d. worthington]

Originally Posted by J Riff

Surprised there isn't a 'Necronomicon for Dummies' yet. )

PLEASE! Don't give these morons any ideas!!!!!

EDIT: Well, it would seem I spoke too soon....

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[J Riff]

Oh noooooo.....
And here I thought life couldn't get any much stupider.

[w h pugmire, esq.]

S. T. Joshi's new blog of to-day hath announc'd that his two volume annotated edition of H. P. Lovecraft's Revisions will be published by Larry Roberts and Bloodletting Press!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ia!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[j. d. worthington]

Great news! On the way at last... now, let's see how many banks I need to knock over....

[Ningauble]

Gavin Smith announced the other day on his mailing list that he will be getting the pb of the annotated Case of Charles Dexter Ward around the end of the month. It will cost $20. There is no price or release date for the hc yet, as far as I know, but it can't be far off now.

[Ningauble]

Originally Posted by w h pugmire, esq.

S. T. Joshi's new blog of to-day hath announc'd that his two volume annotated edition of H. P. Lovecraft's Revisions will be published by Larry Roberts and Bloodletting Press!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ia!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I just finished proofing vol. 1 of the set -- stories only, not the notes. It will be a magnificent volume: all the revisions from "The Green Meadow" to "The Mound", with "Four O'Clock" by Sonia Greene and "The Automatic Executioner" and "A Sacrifice to Science" by Gustav Adolph Danziger (Adolphe de Castro) in an appendix.

[j. d. worthington]

Glad to see those included, as they will give people a taste of what HPL was working with on the two stories by 'Dolph... and "Four O'Clock", though not a good story, nonetheless has a sort of hypnotic eeriness to it in places, and certainly shows Grandpa's influence, however little it may bear of his actual revising....

[Ningauble]

U of Tampa Press now has links to the two states of their The Case of Charles Dexter Ward:

UTPress / University of Tampa

UTPress / University of Tampa

The hc will be available in mid-November.

[w h pugmire, esq.]

I've finish'd reading the Afterword of S. T.'s new Annotated edition of Ward in ye pb edition, and it is wonderful. This new edition of the novel has 203 annotations as opposed to 170 in ye Penguin Classics printing of ye novel. The book looks wonderful, with a number of great photos at the back. I am waiting for the hardcover edition, to be published next month, to read the actual novel. I want to hold that hardcover edition in mine hand and then sink into that world as ne'er before.

[Ningauble]

Originally Posted by w h pugmire, esq.

I've finish'd reading the Afterword of S. T.'s new Annotated edition of Ward in ye pb edition, and it is wonderful. This new edition of the novel has 203 annotations as opposed to 170 in ye Penguin Classics printing of ye novel. The book looks wonderful, with a number of great photos at the back. I am waiting for the hardcover edition, to be published next month, to read the actual novel. I want to hold that hardcover edition in mine hand and then sink into that world as ne'er before.

I had some input on the notes and the afterword -- I identified "humhums", almost identified "shendsoy", and found out when William Lippitt Mauran died.