Aug. 20 was the 125th anniversary of the birth of horror’s H.P. Lovecraft.
There wasn’t much noted about HPL here at Yellowed Perils, but the anniversary was certainly important at PulpFest 2015. You can hear more about HPL and the influence of his fiction if you listen to the panel discussions from the con.
If you’d rather listen to his fiction, then head over to the Open Culture website.
To celebrate the anniversary of his birthday, Open Culture posted links to dramatizations of “At the Mountains of Madness,” “The Dunwich Horror,” “The Call of Cthulhu,” “Beyond the Walls of Sleep,” and other stories.
Wait until darkness, pull the curtains, dim the lights, and prepare to get the shivers.
REANIMATING THE REANIMATOR: Over at The Atlantic, Philip Eil takes a critical look at HPL in “The Unlikely Reanimation of H.P. Lovecraft.”
The subhead title sums up the article: “125 years after his birth, the author known for his eerie tales — and his racist beliefs — has had one of the biggest comebacks in Western literature.”
BURROUGHS DID IT ALL WRONG: Leading up to the 140th anniversary of his birth on Sept. 1, The Saturday Evening Post took a look at the career of Edgar Rice Burroughs.
“Without trying, he broke nearly every conventional rule for achieving literary success,” writes Jef Nilsson, as he shows how the creator of Tarzan and John Carter of Mars succeeded following his own methods.
Of course, this information at The SEP is for informational purposes only, and is not intended as advice for future New Pulp fictioneers. 😉
RIP, NED BROOKS: On Aug. 31, 2015, word began circulating that Cuyler W. “Ned” Brooks Jr. had died after falling from his roof. He was 77.
Ned was one of a number of fans who I know Internetly, having never met him in person. We corresponded several times in the past 15 years about Hannes Bok. Ned wrote The Hannes Bok Illustration Index in 1970, and updated it in ’74, ’94, and 2012.
Ned also wrote the Hannes Bok entry in the PulpWiki.
Mike Glyer has a nice remembrance of Ned posted at his File 770 blog.
My condolences to his family and friends.
