Some early cover-art I’d not seen before, on the Italian “The Lamp of Alhazred” from 1977. The cover implies that inside the reader will find ‘Lovecraft in the Dreamlands’, with a large side-helping of… dinosaurs? I guess dinosaurs were a thing in Italy, back then? But buyers would have been disappointed by the contents. A little digging shows it actually contained 15 of Derleth’s horror ‘collaborations’ with the master. So far as I’m aware Derleth did not introduce dinosaurs to the Mythos, and did not stray far into the “Iranon”-style Dreamlands, but perhaps I’m wrong there.

Some nice new free 3D writing accessories for the free DAZ Studio 3D figure rendering software. Thought not historically exact they have the correct feel and look for H.P. Lovecraft, and offer his preferred simple black as a colour.

The Meshbox / Miyre H.P. Lovecraft Poser figure has now been updated to also work with DAZ Studio, and there’s now a free pack of 24 Expressions for Lovecraft 3D.

If you want real digital inks, as a simple starter I can recommend the free Dave’s Inker Set 2013 for Photoshop. They don’t look much at all, and there are only two brushes, but they’re very nice smooth ‘speed inkers’. They also scale up very well, by which I mean that even when the brush size is made a lot bigger they don’t lag on a big 4k canvas.

H.P. Lovecraft Pop-up Books. They seems to have been and gone, and sold out, but are new to me.

New on Archive.org, Revista Planeta #01 (1964) from Buenos Aires, with an article on Lovecraft by Jacques Bergier in what I assume is Portuguese translated from French. Pages 84-85 of the journal are missing, presumably having having had another facing full-page picture of Lovecraft and thus been removed and framed at some point. One such remains…

Bergier credits Lovecraft with knowing Zulu and other African languages. Lovecraft might well have discussed it with the likes of Edward Lloyd Sechrist, and thus known a few phrases, but I suspect he did not have the patter…

In order to follow this path, Lovecraft began by absorbing much of human knowledge. I never corresponded with such an omniscient being. He knew an untold number of languages, including four African languages: Damora, Swahili, Zulu, and Zani, and numerous dialects. He wrote with identical scholarship on mathematics, relativistic cosmogony, Aztec civilization, ancient Crete, or organic chemistry.

Bergier’s article is followed by a Portuguese translation of “Hypnos”. This is illustrated by Pierre Balas…