HPLinks #59.
Something of a ‘video and films special issue’, this week. Purely by chance, though I guess it may also be partly because universities and academics are swamped with work due to the start of the new teaching-year.
* PulpFest.com has a page collecting many links to Recordings and Reviews of PulpFest 2025.
* Feuilleton takes an extended look at Innsmouth, Japanese-style. This being the…
Japanese TV [movie] adaptation of The Shadow Over Innsmouth which was written and directed by Chiaki Konaka in 1992.
* Also in movies…. new on Reddit is an appreciation of “Michael Mann’s The Keep (1983), an underrated Lovecraftian masterpiece”. Looking into it, I learned that the movie was butchered by the studio execs for cinema release, and as of 2025 there’s still no Director’s Cut. You either love or hate the 1983 result, it seems, judging by reviews. Some love it enough that a remake was seriously planned in 2023. Though many reviews by horror buffs are negative, I must warn readers, so don’t blame me if you view and find it unsatisfactory. The early-80s Tangerine Dream soundtrack doesn’t endear it to some. However, a little more digging by me revealed two possible aids to liking the movie: 1) a basic low-res fan-edit on Archive.org which simply splices on the longer and apparently more coherent ending (used for a TV broadcast); and 2) a five-issue mini-series comic of the original novel, with a single-volume hardcover graphic-novel version announced in May 2021 (the latter seems to have sunk without trace, perhaps due to Covid). Amazon UK “knows a’ nurthing” about the comic in any form. The 2005 comic adaptation can however be found on Archive.org, and it may help fill gaps in the extended movie.
* An abstract for the recent Netherlands conference paper “Evil in Cosmic Horror” (2025). Focuses on movies, and specifically Event Horizon (1997).
* More news of theatre/music activity in Germany. New Original Soundtrack For New Lovecraft-Inspired Theater Production in Germany…
Westend Theater Wuppertal invited the music project Dos Asmund to compose music for a new theatre production based on the works of H. P. Lovecraft. The result is the soundtrack for the play LOVECRAFT. The premiere took place on 11th October 2025. Additional public dates are already being planned.
The resulting album is now on Bandcamp.
* I see the Italian heavy metal singer and comics maker Enrico Teodorani is creating various Lovecraft tribute and Lovecraftian comic-strips. His growing list of horror strips alerts me to 2025 Italian collections such as Le tenebre di Lovecraft, from the Associazione Culturale ESESciFi, and Il libro blasfemo di Cthulhu from Dagon Press (Italy). Several of his strips are in the new Eyrie #32 (2025) which can be had on Amazon, and his blog reports… “Two short comic stories by Enrico Teodorani (one of which is a tribute to H.P. Lovecraft) will be published in issue no. 4 of the Bloody Gore Comix anthology”.
* Le tenebre di Lovecraft turns out to be an illustrated 420-page anthology of stories + essays and comics, published in Italy in August 2025.
* A German hardcover edition of Providence: Omnibus: Alan Moore’s Lovecraft-Mythos endlich als hochwertige Gesamtausgabe is listing on Amazon, set for 21st October 2025.
* Also in comics, the creator of Howard Lovecraft and the Frozen Kingdom now has his new Cats of Ulthar: A Tale Reimagined. A 26-page one-off comic-book published August 2025, apparently aimed at child readers. It…
follows a family of cats on the eve of returning home, where a father recounts to his children the tale of their grandfather, which begins as a bedtime story and becomes a dark memory of captivity, vengeance, and rebirth.
* And finally, something scholarly (phew…). Footnote remover, a new free online service to remove all footnotes and in-text superscript numbers from a PDF file. Perhaps useful if, for instance, you wanted to make a text-to-speech audiobook of an annotated text. Or ingest something like Lovecraft’s letters into an AI.