‘Tis the bleak midwinter, and in the grate the faint embers of the yule-log flicker and wither. My Patreon also withers, having lost two patrons since I departed from the daily posting schedule. If you can help out with just $1 or $2 a month, please, and so push it above the current $53… then then would be most encouraging for 2020. I still have hopes of $100 a month.

My thanks to my December patrons, though, who’ve enabled me to fortuitously acquire another two books. These being Lovecraft’s letters to Moe and to Bloch, bagged when I spotted them at £11-£12 Amazon “Warehouse Deals” inc. free shipping. So, half-price, basically. Slightly imperfect, with cover scuffs and slight bumping, but I don’t mind that. They’re perfectly intact otherwise. Thank you, also, to the Lightning Source print-machine maintenance elves… your scuffs have now saved me a bundle on three books! The Moe and Bloch books been added to the reading pile for early summer 2020.

I was able to hold back some snowy scenes from last summer’s very deep dive into Lovecraft’s College St… and these pictures became “Solstice special: College St. in the snow”. This proved to be a very popular post. I still have a few more such pictures, which may appear here when the the snows are chin-high this winter, plus another excellent no-snow picture that will appear here next May on the date that Lovecraft moved into No. 66 College St.

It was a quiet month at Tentaclii Towers. No new print books to notice, but scholarship noted here in December included the publication of the journal Dead Reckonings No. 26. I also made more additions to my “Open Lovecraft” page.

In games, I noted that “Open Cthulhu” is now online, which bodes well for the future of indie Lovecraftian RPGs.

It was good to see the release of Librivox’s audiobook anthology Lovecraft’s Influences and Favorites, and this collection provides a core around which a wider set of audio readings might be assembled.

Various bits of art were posted here, including a unique t-shirt ready .PNG for my Patreon patrons.

After the new(?) audiobook H.P. Lovecraft – The Collaborations from the HPLHS, the month’s big creative news was that the Game of Thrones writers are adapting the graphic novel Lovecraft (2003). It’s rumoured to be set to become a movie. I also undertook a quick survey of the big movies coming in 2020, and it seems set to be a far better screen-year than the lacklustre and disappointing 2019.