An interesting thought. What if an AI could be devised that would replace all the interminable and wearying pseudo-archaic 19th-century English (thee, thou, thine, thy, ye, whither, shalt, etc) in old fantasy and historical tales? And thus make such old works of fantasy far more readable and listenable for moderns? It shouldn’t be too difficult to cook one up, and the AI might only be needed to proofread the result for sense, to make sure the find/replace had worked properly.

Last year’s Archtober talk “Lovecraft at King Manor” is running again this year for Halloween. Aka “King Mansion”, “King’s Manor”, in Jamaica, New York.

Also in Halloween news, the much-anticipated kinda-Lovecraft horror movie Suitable Flesh reaches some U.S. cinemas on 27th October 2023. Very loosely based on “The Thing on The Doorstep”, apparently. Set in the modern day, “super-gory” and “erotic”, and it moves “outside the lines of depravity and good taste” (cue publicity-still of a louche teen boy smoking and wearing handcuffs). Sounds like modern shock-horror for the teen gore-hounds, and far from Lovecraft’s emphasis on atmosphere and subtleties.