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Weekend links 856

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The November Meteors (1882) by Étienne Léopold Trouvelot.

• At Wormwoodiana: Mark Valentine on Claude Houghton (1889–1961), “an enigmatic figure in the field of fantastic literature and the metaphysical thriller”.

• Free (or name your price) music: Nocturne (Soundtrack For An Invisible Film) by Avi Engel; Surface Tension by Pietro Zollo.

• At Colossal: Bats, Spiders, and Slime Molds Make the Close-Up Photographer of the Year Shortlist.

• At Literary Review: DJ Taylor reviews Super-Beast: The Mysterious Life of Saki by Oliver Soden.

• At Public Domain Review: Soldiers of Misfortune: The Drawings of Urs Graf the Elder.

• At the BFI: Miriam Balansecu chooses 10 great films based on unfinished books.

• New music: Capstone by Ian Boddy, Field Lines Cartographer & Sulk Rooms.

• Steven Heller’s font of the month is Brunnen.

• At Dennis Cooper’s it’s A Jonas Mekas Day.

• The Strange World of…Suzanne Ciani.

• XPRMTS: Art prints by Tetra.

• Harmonic Automata

• Late November (1971) by Sandy Denny | November (2002) by Max Richter | November Sequence (2011) by Pye Corner Audio With The Advisory Circle

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Total solar eclipse over Zaragoza, Spain, 12th August, 2026. Photograph by Ruiyu Zhang.

• Kenneth Anger (again), in a transcript for another KPFA radio interview, in which we Anger have mentioning HP Lovecraft. Not a major revelation in itself but it’s not something I’ve seen before. On a related note, Anger wrote to August Derleth in 1947 asking permission to adapt The Dreams in the Witch House for one of his films. Another tantalising might-have-been from the Anger filmography, along with his unfinished film of Maldoror. (Thanks to Hagen for the info.)

• A recording of Jon Hassell’s final concert (London, 2015) will be released later this year as Music Is Invisible, which will become the third part of the Pentimento series. This may not be the last Hassell album, however. Other live recordings exist, and you could make a substantial compilation from all the one-off pieces Hassell recorded over the years.

• No City Fun: Manchester in 1979 (again) in a short film by Charles Salem with the music of Joy Division on the soundtrack.

• New music: Melting Days by Lusine; Yours Sincerely by Haruomi Hosono; Seedhead by Avi Engel.

• At Unquiet Things: Rebecca Chaperon‘s dreaming thresholds and painted portals.

• Mix of the week: Bleep Mix #322 by Tyondai Braxton.

• Finalists for the Ocean Photographer of the Year.

• Old music: Arles 75 Sechs by Can.

• RIP John Crowley.

• Eclipse (1968) by The Moving Sidewalks | Total Eclipse (1974) by Billy Cobham | Eclipse (1998) by Talvin Singh