Registration will open soon for the Deutsche Cthulhu Convention in Germany. I spotted a deadline of February 2020 for payment, presumably for a summer 2020 event.

Last noted here very briefly in 2014, the event seems to be a large German Cthulhu convention hosted by the German Lovecraft Society in a castle in Lower Saxony. Their tablet-tastic site doesn’t play nicely with Google Translate, so I can’t quite get a sense of how gamer/scholarly the event’s balance is. But they appear to have some sort of core symposium element.

Finding it made me aware of their Lovecrafter magazine. Here’s the pleasing cover of the July 2018 issue, and paper copies are available by mail-order.

Within are…

* A look at a horror and fantasy fanzine of the 1970s (presumably a German one).

* Lovecraft, the first 50 years – a survey of publishing Lovecraft in Germany, with publisher interviews.

* Fear of the Known – on the myths of Lovecraft in the digital world.

* Between protest and delusion – Cthulthu’s role in 1968.

… and some RPG game stuff.