And the winner of my recent iClone competition is… joster285. Congratulations! The licences for iClone 4 Pro, 3DXchange 4 Pro, and CrazyTalk 6 Pro are on the way to him. It was a very difficult choice, but sadly there was only one prize to give. Here’s his pitch for making a Lovecraft movie using the iClone real-time movie-making software…

“I would adapt ‘From Beyond’. It’s quite an interesting tale about exploration and distorted reality. Of course, I’m familiar with the Stuart Gordon film adaptation, though, but after making several Lovecraft adaptations with The Movies, I feel that iClone would be the best way to tell the story. I would do the movie in the style of a psychological thriller with minimum dialogue. For visuals, when Tillinghast and his assistant enter the alternative dimension, every time the scene switches camera angles, the color scheme will fade into a different color giving it a distorted feel.”

I’m pleased to say that my book Tales of Lovecraftian Cats is now available on the Kindle [ Amazon U.S. Kindle store | Amazon U.K. store ].

Four Horror Stories Of Cats, radically reworked and rewritten in the style and mythos of H.P. Lovecraft.

Contents:

* “Beware the Cat”. Being the first ever English novel (1584). A gothic horror story of talking cats, freely adapted and modernised in a new Lovecraftian translation.

* “How the Grimmalkin Came”. A new sequel to both “Beware the Cat” and Lovecraft’s “Through the Gates of the Silver Key”.

* “The Sending”. A new prequel to Lovecraft’s “The Horror at Red Hook”.

* “The Case of the Savage Cat”. A new prequel to Lovecraft’s “The Horror at Red Hook”.

My recent Lovecraftian ‘re-mix’ novelette Crusoe: the macabre further adventures of Robinson Crusoe is now available as an ebook on Amazon, for the Amazon Kindle ereader. It’s on the U.S. store only at the moment ($4.99), and I hope the UK store will list it soon. The whole book was re-formatted from scratch for the Kindle, and includes optimised illustrations in the text. It’s been a learning exercise in hand-crafting the HTML required for the Kindle, and crunching the illustrations down, which is a bit of a chore but is hopefully worth it. I hope to get my other Lovecraft books into native Kindle form over the next few weeks.