MANTICHORUS:

mailing notes

(MANTICHORE

20/FEB 2011)

EOD

Hussey (Amethyst 7): Great to see the

Hippocampus titles on the cover of

Publishers Weekly! And congrats on the

massive effort involved with the

stupendous 2-vol Lovecraft bio! Thanks

for your extreme generosity in supplying

the Lovecraft Annual issues.

Pugmire (Idiot Chaos): Looking forward

to your next books, and loved your collage

of your face onto the Virgil Finlay HPL

portrait!

Everts (Cunha Part IV) – Fascinating

material on this figure. Ever the researcher

I see…

Schultz(Cthulsz, May 2010) – Ah, the

corporate horror! Also always good to get

a sneak preview of books to come from

Hippocampus.

Livesey (Redux 17): I much enjoyed this

astronomical piece re the Precession of the

Equinoxes.

Cozzoli (Zombies Closet): Welcome!

Excellent and interesting content on

HPLian films and comics.

Faig (EOD Letter 16): Very enjoyable book

reviews (I don’t have any of those books

yet). Curious about Bonner and Fredlund

both working at the Library….

Drake’s Potpourri: Ah! Dr Syn! I believe it

was the McGoohan version, Scarecrow of

Romney Marsh, which scared the bejeesus

out of me when I saw it on Disney when I

was young. Have one of the Thorndyke

novels but haven’t read it. There was a

1937 film starring George Arliss which I

haven’t seen; also Captain Clegg, another

version, made in 1962 with Peter Cushing,

which I’d dearly love to see. Interesting

letters to Manly Wade Wellman.

Anderson (Nodens’ Notebook 29):

Interesting reviews and author notes, and

thanks for the essay on Smith.

Dapkus (Sidereal 3) Thanks for your

comments Jim, and good to see you

publishing more poetry by such as Fred

Phillips and W. Paul Ganley.

Rajala (Nonconformist 2 No 3). One can

hardly blame you for a smaller issue this

time after the ‘gargantuous’ (my friend

Scott’s favourite neologism for ‘big’) issue

of the time before. Enjoyed the Lovecraft’s

astronomical notebook info.

Anderssen (Aurora Borealis). Cutest

cover in the mailing! I believe I have a

story in Price’s forthcoming Secret Asia’s

Blackest Heart (though it’s seen print

before). Probate details were cool, as was

your ideal edition of HPL.

Phillips (Kommati) Arr, Fred me old

shipmate! Vastly appreciated your

Shikarring notes. Nice essay on fate and

Lovecraft. Wish I had space/time to devote

to discussing it more, but both are in short

supply! I envy Dea’s trip to Egypt, where

I’d like some day to dally with the odd

Sphinx and perhaps become “Imprisoned

with the Pharaohs”.

Joshi (What is Anything 22, No 3) : Hail

to the chief! Thanks for the intro to the

new revisions volume. Your “staggeringly

busy schedule” is incomprehensible to

most of us mere mortals. Thanks also for

the Daily Lurker.

Briggs (Dark Entries): Scott! Your

extensive issues always entertain me so

much, but they are so extensive, I cannot

possibly reply to all the ideas they trigger.,

If you kept ‘em a bit shorter I might have a

chance!

Dinkens (Alienist 2). Did I neglect to

welcome you last time? Welcome!

Particularly enjoyed your piece on Cybele

and “The Rats in the Walls”. It might be

good to have a look in future parts as to

how the ‘demonisation’ of the Goddess

contributed to the perception of the Great

Mother (Magna Mater) as a ‘dark force’

instead of as a lifegiving one.

Bush (Pleasures of Death 10) Congrats on

completing the Gilchrist thesis! Enjoyed

your piece on him in WFR #1. I once had a

copy of The Thing from the Lake, given me

by Australian fan Diane Fox, but it no

longer reposes swampily on my shelves as

I considered it but marginally

Lovecraftian.

Haefele (Hesperia 60): Interesting Mc’s

and comments on AtMoM.

Burlesons (Morgan & Rice): Interesting

material as always. Polynomial theorems?

I try not to think about ‘em. Nice poem.

Walker (Criticaster 66): As ever, a mine of

Lovecraftian info one could follow up if

one had the time. It’s all so much more

than there used to be back in the seventies

when one was starved for any mention of

Lovecraft in any medium. Considering

your comments on CW but I haven’t re-

read it for a while.

Hall (Wraiths of Winnemucca): Loved

seeing the Howard Wandrei letters. Sorry

if I haven’t welcomed you to EOD before

this – been a bit behind…

SSWFT Oh dear. I’ve actually mislaid my last

mailing of SSWFT. It’s around here

somewhere. (Scuffles through piles of

refreence books, mounds of papers,

tottering cobwebbed piles of stuff

intended for various projects in progress).

No, emcees will have to wait for next time.

Sorry SWWFTers!

A FINAL NOTE I have finally availed myself of such

modern technology ad downloading

music and video from torrent sites on the

net, and using Skype to make video

conference calls; but I still can’t text or

SMS on my phone. Lame or what?

SOME MATERIALS

RE: JAMES

SCHEVILL’S PLAY

‘LOVECRAFT’S

FOLLIES’

The first two photos are taken from Chris

Perridas’ blog on Lovecraft. #1 depicts

inside the cover of the play programme. #2

shows the hardcover publication of the

play text (Swallow Press, 1971)(left) with

the play programme beside it (right). The

third photo reproduces an ad from the

final part of the play’s Providence run.

Schevill died on Jan 30, 2009.