Poe's 200th Birthday

The date will also mark barrywood's 50th birthday. I don't know if Halifax will shut down for a depraved carnevale or not.
 
Des' birthday is the day before. I'm not sure that he'd wish to reveal how old he'll be (but I do know).

And my dad's 102nd birthday would have been today.

Whatever possesses people to emerge from a nice warm womb during the winter?
 
I just try'd to reply to this and then lost ye text by pushing my space tab -- maybe a sign that I should return to bed. Maybe I'll be able to relocate it. Ye theme of next year's World Fantasy Con is celebrating Poe's 200th birthday. I hope to see some of you there. I had a great time being on a couple of Poe panels this year at World Horror Con in Salt Lake City. & being in Salt Lake for the first time in 30+ years was flipping weird, especially when I went out to eat with reletives and I was in full Boy George drag. Met my lesbian cousin for the first time in something like 40 years, and she vented a bit about my return to Mormonism (I was rebaptised four years ago, after twenty-five years of being excommunicated for being fabulous, i.e. queer). Salt Lake is one eerie town, the perfect place for a horror convention.:)
 
This message was sent on my Facebook page in regard to Poe's 200th Birthday:

We have a treat for you in the new year! As Poe's 200th Birthday is around the corner, a lot of events are being organized to celebrate.

One of those events is specifically for you! I've worked hard with Brent Fidler to host an online premiere of Poe - Last Days of the Raven. This film is the only one ever made about Poe's life, rather than his work! It has already won a major award for best feature film in LA, Universal Studios.

You will all be able to see the movie for free, on one day - Jan 19th, 2009 - as a tribute to Poe's 200th Birthday!!

Official Website: http://www.poelastdaysoftheraven.com
Trailer:
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I will create an Event, you must join as the link to the movie will be announced there prior to Jan 19th. For now, enjoy the trailer :)
 
Having completed work on my revised edition of DREAMS OF LOVECRAFTIAN HORROR, I am now preparing to write a sequence of related prose-poems/vignettes to be entitled "In Remembrance: Edgar A. Poe," for a fabulous forthcoming collection from Centipede Press, THE MAN THAT WAS USED UP: A CELEBRATION OF EDGAR ALLAN POE. Jerad Walters, publisher and editor of the volume, has compiled a stunning array of classic material. Among the essays are:
"Edgar Allan Poe: A Brief Biography," by J. Gerald Kennedy;
"The Fall of the House of Usher," by Arthur Symons;
"The Black Cat," by Aaron Baggio;
"Studies in Classical American Literature," by D. H. Lawrence;
"New Notes on Edgar Poe," by Charles Baudelaire;
"An Introduction to Edgar Allan Poe," by W. H. Auden;
"The House of Usher," by R. P. Blackmur;
"The House of Poe," by Richard Wilber;
"Poe at Home and Abroad," by Edmund Wilson;
"Edgar Allan Poe," by George Bernard Shaw;
"Major Editions and Landmarks of Poe Scholarship," by Scott Peeples, and many many more. There are stunning colour and black-&-white art portfolios by Arthur Rackham, W. Heath Robinson, Fritz Eichenberg, Harry Clarke (!!) and Creepy Magazine! I've hopefully arranged for a reprinting of David Schultz's charming essay on Poe and Lovecraft, "In A Sequester'd Churchyard," which discusses how HPL took guests to St. John's Churchyard, which Poe was known to haunt, and it was there that Lovecraft, Barlow and others, one night, sat on tabletop tombs and wrote acrostic sonnets on Poe's name, which are reprinted in the Schultz article, along with sonnets by Maurice W. Moe and Henry Kuttner.

I am thrilled to be a part of this book, which will be a handsome Centipede hardcover of beautiful design. I think perhaps mine will be the only work of original fiction therein, and thus I am hoping to compose something worthy of Poe and his influence on weird fiction. I will try to write a piece similar to "Uncommon Places," inter-related prose poems and vignettes inspir'd by Poe's life and poetry and prose. I suspect the book will be published at year's end.
 
The UK magazine The New Humanist has a feature article on Poe, by me. It's called "Gothic Revival" and is a bit of a stunt on my part, as Poe is about as far from a humanist or rationalist as one can get.
 
hopfrog said:
I am thrilled to be a part of this book, which will be a handsome Centipede hardcover of beautiful design.
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That does indeed sound awesome! I will certainly keep my eyes open for that publication, although I don't know if I will be able to afford it. They make beautiful books--but pricey. Understandably, of course, since high quality work is costier to produce.

Oh well, perhaps, with a little luck, I have more money at the end of the year:cool:

-Henrik
 
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